The paper begins with a brief overview of sense and sense-making with reference to cohesion, coherence and intertextuality. Based on a word-by-word close analysis, it charts the semantic coherence of a classical Chinese poem, Ye Yu Ji Bei by Li Shangyin, followed by a mapping of the text’s metaphorical coherence in terms of ontological metaphors. Using the poem as a case example, the paper exam...

The vagaries of poetic inspiration have often been regarded as ineffably mysterious, and have provoked conjectures since antiquity. Instead of invoking the muses, we today are more apt to consider neurophysiological factors. The case of the great English poet John Milton, whose poetic inspiration seemed to follow a marked seasonal pattern, is considered here, and evidence is presented to show c...

today, it is clear that literature is an event that becomes apparent within the context of language; since it is language that gives form and identity to it. in fact language is a system of phonetic, grammatical, and lexical to express thoughts and feelings. with the coming of formalism then structuralism, critics became of the conviction that a literary work should be studied without any backg...

This paper is an exploratory sociological analysis of poetic confluence, a spontaneous telepathic phenomenon that occurs in everyday social interaction. In one person’s talk exhibits enigmatic relationship to another’s unstated thoughts or imagery at moment. The analyses draw from empirical approach called Conversation Analysis, formal qualitative method for the naturally occurring interaction ...

â  â  avicenna’s role in arabic literature â  â  nasrollah shameli * â  hamid ahmadian ** â  â  abstract â  â  the master and doyen, avicenna, is one of the prominent savants of the fourth century a.h. besides medicine and philosophy, he was a master in sciences of his time, and was proficient in arabic literature. he has peerless anthologies in poetry and prose, in both arabic and persian li...

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...

This study aims to trace the line and conduct a discussion about poetics as it arises from or drawing of that line. The study, therefore, considers act thinking practice explores dynamic relationship between “line”, “the drawing”, “drawing” through sketches. is based on qualitative research method discusses conceptual language poetry. crossed with not-language not-poetry explained approach “poe...