What makes a poem beautiful? We use computational methods to compare the stylistic and content features employed by awardwinning poets and amateur poets. Building upon existing techniques designed to quantitatively analyze style and affect in texts, we examined elements of poetic craft such as diction, sound devices, emotive language, and imagery. Results showed that the most important indicato...

the influence of social conditions on literature is an issue that many critics and scholars confirm and prove it; as duality is one of the manifestations of the influence of social conditions on the poet. it means that whenever the ambitions and beliefs of poet opposes the social facts, the duality will manifests in his poetry. the reality that the contemporary poets live in, imposes strong con...

Oriental poetry is often devoted to romantic, mystical, religious, social, political themes, and written in extremely beautiful soul-shaking tones. Persian poet Shamsiddin Muhammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī (1325-1390) considered the father of Near Eastern Middle lyrics. He connects mystical ghazals Mawlana Rumi romantic Saadi, gives freedom verses ghazal creates a new twist it. Poetry methods: Iham Ibha...

the ghazals of hafiz and the canzoniere of petrarch (1304–1374) have at least three common characteristics: (a) from the qualitative point of view: each of these two works is at the top of the medieval love poetry: one in the persian literature, and the other in the european literature; (b) from the chronological point of view: these two books of poetry have been written during the fourteen the...

ahmad showqi is one of the outstanding contemporary poets and had such an important state among the poets who were called poet laureate. quran played as a spring which he enjoyed it a lot for his poetry. by studying his poetry we come to conclusion that holy quran had a significant effect on showqi’s poetry and he had used its vocabulary and semantics in all his poetry. doomsday and its images ...

This paper proposes a new approach to style, arising from our work on computational media using structural blending, which enriches the conceptual blending of cognitive linguistics with structure building operations in order to encompass syntax and narrative as well as metaphor. We have implemented both conceptual and structural blending, and conducted initial experiments with poetry, including...