Poetry is a unique artifact of Human Natural Language Production whose creation requires mastery over linguistic knowledge and creativity. Thus, generating poetry by a computer is certainly a testament to the progress of Arti cial Intelligence. This report descibes the past work in this area and also presents a working algorithm which generates poetry using semantic similarity based on WordNet[1].

This paper illustrates the potential uses of poetry therapy for practitioners interested in cognitively based psychotherapies. Separate brief discussions of cognitive therapy and the uses of poetry and poetry therapy are presented. The congruence between these two approaches is addressed. Sample exercises and poems as illustrations are presented that demonstrate this congruence. © 2005 Elsevier...

Abstract The Ahl-i Hadith in South Asia has largely been studied as a textualist, puritan movement result of its exclusive emphasis on the Quran, sources, and connection with variety radical political armed groups. In contrast, poetry associated Sufi movements. This article questions this distinction makes historiographical intervention by examining Maulana Muhammad Anwar Shopiani (d. 1940) Kas...

BACKGROUND Poetry plays an age-old role in the art of healing. Although medicine today seems distant from the world of poetic expression, there are surprising commonalities between the two. OBJECTIVES In this essay we reflect on three aspects of healing that are fostered by poetry. OBSERVATIONS Practicing medicine with too many facts and not enough poetry leads to dissatisfaction, disappoin...

iran is a society with religious infrastructure, in which islam and shiism have had great influence. meanwhile culture and iranian literature, especially poetry has a great position in reflecting religious symbols. ghajarid era is one of the persian literature periods in which religion, especially shiism has great reflection. in this era, by reinforcing religious bases of poems, poets try to tr...

the writers of the present article have tried to explain the origin and the meanings of the word a’jam. to achieve this purpose, the authors have consulted different persian and arabic dictionaries as well as different works of prose and poetry. the writers also tried to prove the suggestion that says this word is originally persian and is derived from the name of jamshid (the mythical king of ...

through its evolution, the islamic mysticism was led in pantheism which was introduced by mohi al-din ibn `arabī. although pantheist ideas can be traced among the old mystics but ibn `arabī has been the founder and disciplinarian of such ideas. along with the spread of islam and persian language and literature in india, islamic mysticism, and subsequently, pantheistic mysticism spread in that c...