As for many civilizations, poetry is an essential part of Chinese literature. Poetry has influenced the development of the literature and language of both classical and vernacular Chinese. Certain of the words that we use today can be tracked all the way back to the Shijing (詩經/shi1 jing1/ [1]), c. 1046BC. Research on Chinese poetry is thus instrumental for understanding Chinese culture, and a ...

At some historical points, all classes and professions of a society, despite all the differences and disagreements, flow into one single stream to reach a higher goal. Iranians have had this historical experience many times throughout history: during the Constitutional Revolution (1905-1911), and also in the Islamic Revolution in 1979. In the Constitutional Revolution, all classes and professio...

edited by José Ferreirós and Jeremy Gray Oxford University Press, 2006, 442 pp. $ 69.50 US, ISBN 0198567936 REVIEWED BY ANDREW ARANA This collection of essays explores what makes modern mathematics ‘modern’, where ‘modern mathematics’ is understood as the mathematics done in the West from roughly 1800 to 1970. This is not the trivial matter of exploring what makes recent mathematics recent. The...

The article is devoted to the actualization of traditional values in Soviet culture during Great Patriotic War after being relatively obliviated early era. role achievement victory war by people shown. Considerable attention paid poetry that represents values, which turn influenced construction renewed cultural identity period.

The article analyses Russian émigré poetry: it describes the lyric poetry of emigrants in Far East, its connection to metropolis and western branch emigration. work is focused on one least studied issues history poetry, i. e., specific development verse. Lyric by Nikolay A. Shegolev (1910–1975), a poet so-called “Russian China”, offers extensive material this respect. His has been overlooked te...

A research project on timing relations in prose, poetry and music is outlined. In order to gain a deeper understanding of speech prosody, a comparison will be made of timing relations in such activities as reading of poetry and music performance, where there usually is a strong and obvious rhythmic patterning of the produced sound sequences. Also there are interesting parallels to be drawn by c...

Poetry can offer a wide range of language learning opportunities to ESL learners if it’s taught interactively and linguistically. Poetry is embellished with rhythm, beautiful diction and elevated grammatical features. These features can serve as a powerful stimulus to ESL students in learning grammar, vocabulary and integrated language skills. Some of the researchers pointed out that Poetry was...

Poetry is a means of conveying ideas. Wiji Thukul poet who was allegedly lost because his poetry. This study describes the textual strategy or writing poetry that took in symbolic contestation Indonesian literary arena during New Order era. research uses Pierre Bourdieu's cultural production theory to describe and explain Thukul's problems, both intrinsic extrinsic, simultaneously. The data sou...

We propose two novel methodologies for the automatic generation of rhythmic poetry in a variety of forms. The first approach uses a neural language model trained on a phonetic encoding to learn an implicit representation of both the form and content of English poetry. This model can effectively learn common poetic devices such as rhyme, rhythm and alliteration. The second approach considers poe...