Writing Poetry as an Enjoyable Experience

The use of poetry writing in nurse education: An evaluation.

BACKGROUND Arts based approaches have been used in health education in various ways e.g. to develop emotional awareness, reduce anxiety and stress and assess communication skills. OBJECTIVES This evaluation aimed to explore the use of poetry writing as a way for undergraduate nursing students to consider their feelings about important practice issues. METHODS 42 first year undergraduate nur...

Lyric Poetry as Society

Recent Writing of Lutz Rathenow: A New GDR Poetry?

Writing science: the abstract is poetry, the paper is prose.

EXPRESSIONISM I’m going to suggest that the four-part, quatrain model of the scientific abstract or IQ has served its term. What’s been missing all these years was an important, fifth subsection: The CONTROLS, the obvious, the critical, the perfect CONTROLS! Time’s come to expand the microcosm of the abstract: The cosmos according to Hubble Expands like the soap of a bubble. Let’s hope it’s not...

Psychoanalysis as poetry.

Like psychoanalysis, poetry is possible because of the nature of verbal language, particularly its potentials to evoke the sensations of lived experience. These potentials are vestiges of the personal relational context in which language is learned, without which there would be no poetry and no psychoanalysis. Such a view of language infuses psychoanalytic writings on poetry, yet has not been f...