This paper aims to analyze Edgar Allan Poe’s fiction and poems from a psychoanalytic perspective. The Romantic writer’s short tragic life was governed by his Oedipus complex strong death drive as the result of traumatic experiences at an early age. He witnessed mother’s battle with tuberculosis, which followed her death. Throughout entire life, he has searched for mother figure. In works, Poe r...

The Iliad and the Odyssey co-evolved with the use of iron, and so a detailed examination of iron in the Homeric poems has the potential to flesh out a “fuller cultural history” (1) of the Greeks: what they considered the properties of iron objects, and how iron acquires these properties. I believe the texts distinguish three types of iron: bloom iron, wrought iron, and steel, despite the fact t...

Abstract Translation of literary texts, especially poetry, is one of the most difficult tasks; it requires mastery and knowledge of the language system and culture, and lack of this might lead to wrong translation. This study aimed to examine the loss and gain of the sociocultural implicit meanings in the English translations of the Mu’allaqat, and assess whether the translators of the Mu’allaq...

"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" shows many features associated with seventeenth-century metaphysical poetry in general, and with Donne's work in particular. Donne's contemporary, the English writer Izaak Walton, tells us the poem dates from 1611, when Donne, about to travel to France and Germany, wrote for his wife this valediction, or farewell speech. Like most poetry of Donne's time, it ...

MASTER (Multi-Agent System for Text Emotion Representation) is an artificial society in which each member has a digital emotional state. Member agents attempt to influence each other’s emotions by reciting “poems” to each other which express their own emotional state. As agents do this, larger texts are developed in the society through social learning. The resulting texts are not meaningful in ...

ALAN RICHARDSON, Professor of English, Boston College Aarhus University Press, Romantik, 01, vol. 01, 2012, pages 9-26 9 R O M A N T IK · 0 1 of the specific dreams represented in two important Romantic poems, P. B. Shelley’s Alastor and John Keats’ ‘The Eve of St. Agnes’. In both parts of this essay, my reinterpretation of earlier discourses and texts has been partly inspired by my awareness o...

To all English-speaking people, Shakespeare's words on any subject are final. We think of Pyramus and Thisbe as comic, rather than romantic, characters, because they were played by the "rude mechanicals" in the Midsummer Night's Dream, and the Ages of Man are, beyond all question, seven, as enumerated by the melancholy Jacques. But, though Shakespeare has fixed this number, seven, so firmly in ...