After a brilliant career at the heart of empire, the ‘Abbam sid court poet alBu D hturi found himself disillusioned with royal patronage. In AD 883 he set out in doleful mood to find solace in the vestiges of another empire which his own people, the Muslim Arabs, had humbled and defeated two centuries earlier: Sasanid Persia and the by now abandoned ruins of its capital, Ctesiphon. The contempl...

This paper presents the first full edition and translation of an unpublished (1566) poem written by Johanna Otho sent to Camille de Morel. Both young women, linked their mutual acquaintance Karel Utenhove, were internationally recognized for learning. Otho’s is a significant contribution corpus women’s Latin poetry. also offers brief introduction poem’s historical context suggests contem- porar...

ASPERA is a case based reasoning application that generates poetry versions of texts provided by the user. The cases on its case base consist of a sentence of prose (used as retrieval key) associated with a corresponding poem fragment (used as starting point for the solution). Each case includes information about how the words in the prose text are related to the words in the poetry solution. T...

This research looks at the medieval Spanish epic poem, the Poema de Mio Cid, and how it reflects the world of Spanish culture and literature, its place in the landscape of epic poetry on the European continent, and the noble virtues of the hero, el Cid. The Poema is an anonymous cantar de gesta, or “song of heroic deeds,” likely composed around the early thirteenth century by a person (or perso...

Conveying scientific content with accuracy and fluency takes practice and requires deep understanding of the concepts being conveyed. This depth of knowledge comes from internalizing information and constructing it into a form that is unique and coherent to the individual. Often in science classrooms there is little or no opportunity for students to practice this type of thinking, activities th...

Computer poetry generation is our first step towards computer writing. Writing must have a theme. The current approaches of using sequence-to-sequence models with attention often produce nonthematic poems. We present a conditional variational autoencoder with augmented word2vec architecture that explicitly represents the topic or theme information. This approach significantly improves the relev...

This study considers Matthew Arnold’s “The Scholar Gipsy” within the liminal-limioid theoretical grounds touched upon by Victor Turner and Friedrich Max Müller. The body of discussion focuses on metapoetic aspect art poetry in relation to liminal-liminoid projections featured poem. main argument is that liminal poem transform into a liminoid space where essential core itself revealed as product...

Poetry is a unique literary work and not easily translated from source language to target because in the process, wherever possible maintain inner atmosphere of (mood, tone). At same time, translators should look for equivalents formal form poem itself appropriately, such as number lines (especially sonnet type), rhyme (praying) syllable (number syllables). Therefore, it necessary review journa...

This paper discusses ideal romantic love as it appears in Western literature and how women are portrayed in works containing idealistic romantic plots. It also explores how Canadian author Margaret Atwood rejects the traditional love plot in her novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, as well as in her book of poetry Power Politics and the poem “A Woman’s Issue.” The first section of this paper gives a bri...

Article History The paper received on: 12/03/2014 Accepted after peer-review on: 07/05/2014 Published on: 01/06/2014 Robert Frost (1874-1963) is a famous American Poet. As most of his poems are autobiographical in subject, it is evident that he has been mostly influenced by the environment around him in composing his masterpieces. Frost’s themes are very simple in the surface meaning endowed wi...