Background: Infertility is global problem that leads to psychological complications. Studies show that the psychological damage caused by infertility is far greater in women that in men. Infertility reduces psychological well-being and causes infertility stress in infertile women. The objective of the present research was to determine the effectiveness of a positive thinking based poetry therap...

attempts to define poetry have occupied the minds of many writers for a long time. although all people believe in the existence of poetry, but there is not a consensus on what it is. the diversity of definitions about poetry has led some writers to know basically poetry undefinable, for a widely accepted definition has not yet provided. there have always been some kinds of poetry which have bro...

Outlining an educational initiative for those who work in the National Health Service (NHS), this article argues that literary reflection has been too easily seen as a simple tool which may improve the practitioner's empathic skills and benefit patient-centred care. Using anecdotal feedback, the author reports ways in which a series of literary workshops held for professionals in the NHS have a...

With the rise of ecological branch of literary criticism many critics have attempted to explore the relationship of literature and environment. Consequently the role of literature, and especially poetry is re-examined from ecocentric perspective, that is, poetry is considered as promoting ecological consciousness. Some of the critics eve argue that this consciousness can be converted into activ...

Bruce Thacker never took an art class. He never even took a computer class. His degree is in geology, and he fi rst bought a computer in 1990 to track stock investments. Somewhere in the convoluted melange of his linear history, he owned a contemporary art gallery, invested in stocks and real estate, owned a custom photo lab, and was a professional photographer. “Other things that I’ve never ha...

plicitly, by an equally nebulous third term: sense. The relation is ambiguous, and shift-­ ing, because sound—especially in the context of poetry—is of that species of homographs which produce their own antonyms.4 On the one hand, sound—defined as “the au-­ dible articulation(s) corresponding to a let-­ ter or word” (def. 4b)—has been understood as distinct from linguistic meaning: “the sound m...

This paper is about the automatic generation of creative text, more precisely the automatic generation of poetry. It starts by presenting two possible categorisations for systems that aim generating poetry and then makes a brief overview on the existing attempts to this subject based on what can be found in the literature.

For α, β, n ordinals α → (β, n) means that any graph on the ordinal α either contains an independent set of order-type β or a complete subgraph of order-type n. We only consider cases where n is a natural number, hence the naming. The partition relation α → (β, n) for α, β finite multiples of κ where κ = ω or κ is weakly compact is characterized by a finitary problem as is the same for α, β fin...

Our software system simulates the classical collaborative Japanese poetry form, renga, made of linked haikus. We used NLP methods wrapped up as web services. This approach is suitable for collaborative human-AI generation, as well as purely computer-generated poetry. Evaluation included a blind survey comparing AI and human haiku. To gather ideas for future work, we examine related research in ...