William Empson’s poem ‘Letter I’ (1928–35) appears to anticipate the black hole, using the idea of a dying star from which no light escapes as a metaphor for unrequited passion. Closer inspection of the Cambridge undergraduate context in which the poem was written, along with the other source materials incorporated besides Arthur Eddington in the poem, reveals the motivation behind Empson’s pla...

abstract in this research, we try to examine the methods of tautology in modern poetry by studying the poems of badr shaker sayyab. the research method is descriptive and analytical, and collection of data is written in the library.tautology is the basic element of internal music of a poem. it is also one of the important elements in defamiliarization among artists. the basic rule in tautology ...

The paper proposes a novel solution to the problem of exceptional scope (ES) of (in)definites, exemplified by the widest and intermediate scope readings of the sentence Every student of mine read every poem that a famous Romanian poet wrote. We propose that the ES readings have two sources: (i) discourse anaphora to particular sets of entities and quantificational dependencies between these ent...

Peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) appears to be a successful technique for the treatment of achalasia [1]. Only a few cases of delayed bleeding have been described [2]. Here, we report a case of esophageal hematoma that developed 1 day after a patient on acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) therapy underwent POEM. A 59-year-old woman with type II achalasia was referred for a POEM procedure. She had a pas...

Historical research shows that many physicians experienced in medical sciences are also talented in art, literature and poetry. Avicenna was a sage who was skilled in poetry in addition to philosophy and medicine. He wrote two different types of poetry: those meant to be enjoyed for their literary qualities of novelty and imagination, and his didactic Urjuzeh. Didactic poems are different from ...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Per-oral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) is a minimally invasive endoscopic treatment option for patients with achalasia and has been performed since 2010. It is less invasive than Heller myotomy and its use is spreading rapidly worldwide. We present our results of POEM that, to the best of our knowledge, are the first cases in Turkey. MATERIALS AND METHODS We enrolled patients betw...

This paper aims at illustrating how narrative theories can apply to the analysis of lyric poetry with an example from Korean literature: The Azaleas by Kim Sowöl. This poem in seven-and-five-syllable meter as well as with its thematic aspect that is concerned with lamentation or broken heart is considered the most representative of the folkloric tradition in the history of Korean lyric poetry. ...

the manifest of value of colors in nazik al-malaika s poemsali piranishal *khadije hashemi**from the early times, colors have played an important role in developing poeticimages, and colorful images are the realistic and sensory aspects among poets. poetshave used colorful words to explore and explain the relationship between poeticimages and sometimes they have used colorful words to express t...

hallaj, facing different circumstances, is considered as a mysterious experience in the history and when he resisted the government, he met his dark fate and condemned to death.  the age in which hallaj lived was the real renaissance in islamic thought. massignon resembles this age with that of the fifteenth century in the west. but hallaj was economically belonged to poor rank, and scientifica...