The changing pattern of Indian proverbs is very much reflected in various literary creations, especially in modern Indian poetry. Proverbs are used in poetry as a mode of creative process which entails change. Indeed, it is mostly expressed in a poetic style of narration which may be termed as the style of ‘lokaabharan’. Various types of folk elements are used in the creative process and amongs...

This paper discusses the development of a courseware which is able to facilitate attractive and quality lessons in learning poetry for Form 1 students, based on the technology of computer graphics. The need for the development of the courseware was based upon a survey conducted in 2006 in which English Language was then a national issue. This lead to an idea to develop four learning modules whi...

In this paper we present ongoing work to produce an expressive TTS reader that can be used both in text and dialogue applications. The system called SPARSAR has been used to read (English) poetry so far but it can now be applied to any text. The text is fully analyzed both at phonetic and phonological level, and at syntactic and semantic level. In addition, the system has access to a restricted...

This paper describes a corpus of about 3000 English literary texts with about 250 million words extracted from the Gutenberg project that span a range of genres from both fiction and non-fiction written by more than 130 authors (e.g., Darwin, Dickens, Shakespeare). Quantitative Narrative Analysis (QNA) is used to explore a cleaned subcorpus, the Gutenberg English Poetry Corpus (GEPC) which comp...

PoeTryMe is a poetry generation system that produces poems autonomously, from a set of initial parameters. After using a simplified version of this system, creative writers and other interested people identified some issues and expressed their wish to make changes in the resulting poems or to interact with the system and take part in the creative process. This paper illustrates some of the issu...

(Title: The Poetry’s Potencies As Emotion Therapy Media in Society 5.0). This study aims to describe the function of poetry as a medium for emotional therapy society 5.0. data from this are texts written by students. Data were collected through test techniques (poetry writing) and non-tests (interviews, observations, documentation). Based on results study, it is said that aside being brainstorm...

The article for the first time considers most active form of modern Tatar poetry - “ozyn shigyr”. It is noted that this not identical to “long poem”, it has oriental roots. In literature, shigyr” with its unique thematic and aesthetic features was formed in 1920s 1930s era experiments create “new revolutionary time”. revealed genre period are a contextual background studying functioning poetry....

We are constructing an annotated diachronic corpora of the Japanese language. In part of this work, we construct a corpus of Man’yōsyū, which is an old Japanese poetry anthology. In this paper, we describe how to align the transcribed text and its original text semiautomatically to be able to cross-reference them in our Man’yōsyū corpus. Although we align the original characters to the transcri...

This paper analyses the chanting of 21 fivesyllable modern-style poems, which is Chinese traditional style of poem reciting which has long history and special melody. The phonetic analysis of chanting and its relationship with poetic metrics has not yet been fully studied. This paper is to find out the prosodic hierarchy according to pause duration, and probe the phonetic features and methods o...

Since 1953, illustrations have been inserted as "tailpieces" at the ends of articles in The American Journal of Physiology and The Journal of Applied Physiology. The drawings were made by Homer Wheelon, a member of the American Physiological Society from 1919 until his death in 1960. Forty-five years after his death, Wheelon is unknown, but he contributed 32 publications to the medical literatu...