Poems and Fables

Fables and Satires

ever they recognize its worth, but which he in his wisdom preserved. Sir Ronald Ross has done well to publish these verses, and among them will be found nothing that can be confused with the work of that School of Poetry which, largely by its self-advertisement, has been so conspicuous since the outbreak of the Great War. As a poet he belongs assuredly to the right wing, and to-day his verse mi...

Annotating the Structure and Semantics of Fables

This paper outlines an annotation scheme we developed for a corpus of fables. Reference is made to previous studies on discourse structure and story grammar, as well as discourse relations and text coherence. The applicability and adequacy of the various frameworks for annotating and analysing fables are considered. The current work addresses several issues including the basic units for discour...

The Maker Fables

This Science Fiction Prototype explores the idea that the current interest in maker space activities could continue to grow to the point where it causes a sea change in the manufacturing industry as it shifts from centralised production in factories, to a distributed production in people’s communities or homes. This move is a natural extension of a number of research trends, such as the increas...

Complex Networks of Words in Fables

In this chapter we give an overview of the application of complex network theory to quantify some properties of language. Our study is based on two fables in Ukrainian, Mykyta the Fox and Abu-Kasym’s slippers. It consists of two parts: the analysis of frequency-rank distributions of words and the application of complex-network theory. The first part shows that the text sizes are sufficiently la...

Mystic Poems, Poems of Enlightment