Poetic analysis involves the explication of a poem by focusing on the process of semiosis in it. Through semiosis linguistic meaning is transformed into stylistic meaning. An examination of semiosis brings us to look at the hypersemanticized poetic structures which are none other than the style features of a poem. Since style functions in a literary text by conveying meanings other than literal...

The study of nonpositively curved spaces goes back to the discovery of hyperbolic space, the work of Hadamard around 1900, and Car-tan's work in the 20's. These spaces play a signiicant role in many areas: Lie group theory, combinatorial and geometric group theory, dynamical systems, harmonic maps and vanishing theorems, geometric topology, Kleinian group theory, and Teichm uller theory. In som...