INTRODUCTION Creative expression of scientific observations and principles through poetry and other media can enrich medical and science education. This debunks the expectation that science and poetry, for example, are mutually exclusive (Figure 1). Instead of coexisting as parallel lanes without interaction, poetry and science can cross over as one merges lanes. Kurtz and Loewenstein suggest t...

Introduction Preamble -Aesthetics | Poetry and Islam | Poetry and warlords | Poetry and Afghanistan -Poetry and Kazakhstan | Poetry and the Caucasus | Poetry and the Middle East -Poetic leadership | Poetic protest | Prosaic dialogue Indicative possibilities of reframing strategic engagement Clarification of Islamic views Improvisation in poetic debate -Poetic discourse as a lost art | Poetic en...

Between the 15th and 16th century, main archetype of court poetry its “codice lirico”, represented by Petrarca in Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta, could be flanked model lyrical Boccaccio, whose vulgar love works, including Filostrato, seem to alive memory pre-Bembian writers because presence, for example, stylistic features themes typical an elegiaco”.

The work is focused on Josip Osti's book On the Cross of Love, in which author searches for answers to universal question intertwining love (as awakening and celebration life - eros) dying, i.e. death end Thanatos). Through poetry, Osti talks about human nature, fact that we are all, no matter how different from each other, made same elements: mortality, but also a renewing other people. This m...

This paper traces the centrality of rivers in twentieth-century and contemporary popular music poetry regional context Punjab north-west subcontinent. In contrast to riverine imaginations songs eastern or central India, we look at very different evocations rivers—both real conceptual—in subcontinent’s north-west. Rivers feature centrally love legends, devotional folk poetry, Punjab, here trace ...

P may grind their teeth, chagrin and impatience coursing through their arteries with the above commonplace metaphoric declarations. These declarations pervade what may go down on record as the hottest summer (2012) since weather records have been kept. I won’t concern myself with teasing apart various metaphoric cousins (most commonly, simile, metonymy and personification) on the grounds that a...

Arabic poetry has changed after the advent of Islam; that poets started to adopt Islamic concepts and values create a new method rising boasting searching for metaphysical abstract. This vision was accompanied with entity elevated abstract; thus, this influenced poets’ vocabulary, methods, poetic diction. research aims uncover intellectual transformations Islam came up in their influence upon p...