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...

Gerard Manley Hopkins saw intense spiritual connections with nature and was able to integrate these connections into his work. Modernist poets were fascinated by, and often times appalled by, quantum theories about the building blocks of the universe. Their main goal was to create poetry that was grounded, present, and unadulterated by imprecise romantic notions. In distilling language down to ...

in safavid era, ottoman rulers were interested in science and culture, and there were always iranian physicians, astronomers, scholars, artists and poets in their courts. although there were always wars between most ottoman sultans and the safavid kings, they could not prevent iranian culture from influencing that land. at the same time, artists and scholars went to other countries, including t...

Though the field of decadence is currently being reformulated as a global phenomenon (the result major move in literary studies towards World Literature), rich culture modern languages present work women writers remains mostly unexplored. This essay uses case poems by Christina Rossetti and Sarojini Naidu. Through translingual framework, it reflects on continual mediation their work, cosmopolit...

With the spread of Islam among communities belonging to different languages and cultures, it has become essential for Muslims learn language Islamic sources. Some scholars, who were aware this situation, have tried close gap in field by producing works on grammar Arabic since first period their conversion Islam. One these is al-Avamilu'l-Mi'e, which was written ‘Abd al-Kâhir al-Jurjânî (d. 471/...