One activity recognised as an interesting instance of creativity is the ability of poets to systematically come up with new poems, irrespective of how many they have already written in the past. Poets who periodically produce a new poem, different from the earlier ones and comparatively valuable, are considered to embody a more interesting type of creativity than poets who have produced only on...

Wallace Stevens is one of the most perplexing of the major modern poets. His poetry, as even his most ardent admirers agree, is very difficult to follow, and his personal life cuts against the grain of commonplace beliefs about the lives of modern poets. Stevens was neither a bohemian, nor a drunk, nor a professor. In fact he was a successful insurance lawyer in Connecticut, and became a vice p...

Praise in ancient Arabic poetry was one of the important purposes; Because his connection to tribal life, poet defends tribe and praises its knights, here we will shed light on praise epic poets, as flourished their tongue poems they recorded most wonderful pictures Arab tournaments added them from actual status mental accuracy, this research I dealt with for poets touched characteristics how l...

One hundred years ago this week the war poet David Jones was wounded on the Somme. Unlike other war poets it took over 20 years for the horrors he had witnessed to work their way out into his writing. This workshop examines the cognitive processes involved (a) when poets re-render past visual experience as words, and (b) when readers of those words reconstruct the original emotions for themselv...

A study of half-rhymes (HR's) in Romanian poetry reveals that poets systematically prefer HR's corresponding to certain common phonological processes: final devoicing, post-nasal voicing, nasalplace neutralization, stressless vowel reduction, coda cluster simplification, nasalized vowel centralization, liquid metathesis. The striking observation is that none of these processes operates in Roman...