Phillis Wheatley, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Audre Lorde, Lucille Clifton… It was when I met you through your poetry, that found out… words can lift off the page… and me. My heart. history. spirit. consciousness… -Revelation! As an African-American woman, poetry is integral to how see, understand, make meaning of world. first teacher, my mother, taught me about world her/our history...

Due to differences in form, style and culture between the original and the translated version of ancient Chinese poetry, the meaning of translated ancient Chinese poems is bound to differ from that of the originals. Therefore, to certain extent some ancient Chinese poems can never be completely translated; but it is possible that they can be better translated so that the reader of the translate...

In this paper we describe the difficulties of poetry generation, particularly in contrast to traditional informative natural language generation. We then point out deficiencies of previous attempts at poetry generation, and propose a stochastic hillclimbing search model which addresses these deficiencies. We present both conceptual and implemented details of the most important aspects of such a...

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Many years ago I received an urgent Friday afternoon consult from the surgery service. ‘‘Incipient DTs,’’ the resident told me. ‘‘We’ve got this guy, status-post pancreatitis, post-op cholecystectomy, he’s going down the tube.’’ It turned out that the patient was an irascible middle-aged man named Chuck Benderton who a day or so after surgery had gotten agitated and started to swear at his doct...

We present SPARSAR, a system for the automatic analysis of poetry(and text) style which makes use of NLP tools like tokenizers, sentence splitters, NER (Name Entity Recognition) tools, and taggers. Our system in addition to the tools listed above which aim at obtaining the same results of quantitative linguistics, adds a number of additional tools for syntactic and semantic structural analysis ...

The ultimate goal of the poetry assistant currently under development in our lab is an application to be used either as a poetry game or as a teaching tool for both poetry and grammar, including the complex relationships between sound and meaning. Until now we focused on the automatic classification of poems and the suggestion of the ending word for a verse. The classification module is based o...

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motif is a literary device that is usually used to enrich a text. it has not only to do with any recurring element within a literary work but with the creation of certain effects on the reader. the contemporary iraqi poet, yahya samavi, has used motif not only as a decorative device but as a means to convey ideas dominant in his poetry. one of these dominant motives which reflect his life and m...

This research investigated the significance of poetry in the acquisition of English as a second language for social work students at the undergraduate level. The study highlights the fact that poetry can expand the teaching options of the teacher of EFL, as reflected in the overall satisfaction of the students with this mode of language acquisition and the quantitative and qualitative effects r...