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 ...

Apart from offering a new glance upon the reasons of “last personal conflict” between Mayakovsky and Khlebnikov, this paper explores differences in “discursive recognition” two major Russian Futurist poets. These reflect Soviet reception prominent symbolists: Andrei Bely Alexander Blok. The “approved” symbolist Blok was preferable to “controversial” “bewildered” Bely, who published less frequen...

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...