Heine’s poem ‘Still ist die Nacht, es ruhen die Gassen’ (‘The night is still, the streets are dumb’), written in the early 1820s, describes a nocturnal encounter between the poet and his double. The poet returns to stand under the window of the house where his beloved once lived, only to find his double on duty in his place. To the poet, the double’s sighs and hand-wringing seem to be a mocking...

Abstract In this short article, I read Vahni (Anthony Ezekiel) Capildeo’s lyric poem ‘Dog or Wolf’ as an illustration of how a can encompass the deep time co-evolution and speciation (the process whereby species diverge). According to Jonathan Culler, there is “special now” poetry: we encounter any in perpetual present, but one with open temporal horizon. Drawing on Deborah Bird Rose’s concept ...

The aim of this research was to analyze the poetry by Sapardi Djoko Damono on title “I Want” with a figurative language method. type descriptive qualitative and took data note poetry. collected analyzed taking several phrases results analysis poem "I Want" which written in 1989 has theme love Damono. Written meaning that is really simple, knowing true using method, along discussion. Therefore i...

This paper describes a corpus of about 3,000 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 co...

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 has been previously used to read (English) poetry and it has now been extended to apply to short stories. The text is fully analyzed both at phonetic and phonological level, and at syntactic and semantic level. The core of the system is the Prosodic Manag...

In this study we use computational methods to evaluate and quantify philological evidence that an eighth century CE Latin poem by Paul the Deacon was influenced by the works of the classical Roman poet Catullus. We employ a hybrid feature set composed of n-gram frequencies for linguistic structures of three different kinds—words, characters, and metrical quantities. This feature set is evaluate...

We introduce a multiagent blackboard system for poetry generation with a special focus on emotional modelling. The emotional content is extracted from text, particularly blog posts, and is used as inspiration for generating poems. Our main objective is to create a system with an empathic emotional personality that would change its mood according to the affective content of the text, and express...

This paper describes a statistical approach to generation of Chinese classical poetry and proposes a novel method to automatically evaluate poems. The system accepts a set of keywords representing the writing intents from a writer and generates sentences one by one to form a completed poem. A statistical machine translation (SMT) system is applied to generate new sentences, given the sentences ...