In this paper, we present a user-centered design study on poetry visualization. We develop a rule-based solution to address the conflicting needs for maintaining the flexibility of visualizing a large set of poetic variables and for reducing the tedium and cognitive load in interacting with the visual mapping control panel. We adopt Munzner’s nested design model to maintain high-level interacti...

"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" shows many features associated with seventeenth-century metaphysical poetry in general, and with Donne's work in particular. Donne's contemporary, the English writer Izaak Walton, tells us the poem dates from 1611, when Donne, about to travel to France and Germany, wrote for his wife this valediction, or farewell speech. Like most poetry of Donne's time, it ...

literary commitment is an imported concept from western literary review which has found great place among arab scholars and critics in the last decades, because the critical, political, economic and cultural conditions of arab world and the domination of cruelty and exploitation caused the writers and poets to accompany the revolution of innocent countries. farouq jowaida, an egypt poet, is one...

there is no doubt that colors are important factors in creating arts including poetry. the poets use them because of their visual beauties to show their hidden values. sometimes they go further – beyond the external features – ad use colors as symbols to express their own meaning. moreover, modern poet’s deep insight and vision are the main causes to change the colorful portrait to a bright won...

plants in ancient fictional texts describe the  relation between low world and super worlds and appear in forms including ritual resurrection, human reincarnation in plant and vice versa, identification of human and plant , and etc which  relate human's spirit to supernatural. contemporary persian poets are taking advantage of a new language that is full of mythical concepts for expression...

in the constitutional era, the persian poetry knew new poetry implications in the side of the old content defined by the persian literature in previous eras. this is why we call this era, the era of radical change in the old contents. familiarity with the western literature, political and social developments in iran, enlightenment, tyranny, internal and external colonialism are among the factor...