What makes a poem beautiful? We use computational methods to compare the stylistic and content features employed by awardwinning poets and amateur poets. Building upon existing techniques designed to quantitatively analyze style and affect in texts, we examined elements of poetic craft such as diction, sound devices, emotive language, and imagery. Results showed that the most important indicato...

Tang (618-907 AD) and Song (960-1279) dynasties are two very important periods in the development of Chinese literary. The majority forms of the poetry in Tang and Song were Shi (詩) and Ci (詞), respectively. Tang Shi and Song Ci established crucial foundations of the Chinese literature, and their influences in both literary works and daily lives of the Chinese communities last until today. Reco...

ntifying Poets Rohert Crawford speculates that 'the poet who constructs an identity I allows that poet to identify with a particular territory is the paradigmatic modern , adding that 'the position of poets in Scotland is typical of this situation' (Crawford 3: 142). One purpose of this chapter is to illustrate the limits of a Scottish literary ism preoccupied by the search for 'poetic selves t...

satire as a proper means used to introduce humanistic issues, received great attention in modern literature. like art in which caricature tries to exemplify some specific views prominently, and lead the viewers to particular concepts, in poetry, irony plays a vital role in transferring the ideas. therefore, the poet does his best to draw the reader's attention toward intended meanings. this sty...

archaism is one of the most important tools for defamiliarisation of speech and it causes the wordto go beyond the reach of the common people and be closer to poetry. the most prominent function of defamiliarisation is the poetic creativity that a part of it originates from the archaism. ahmad shamloo who is among the innovator and effective poets of our time, has largely benefited from the arc...

This article studies the sustainable spirit of the young people in the poems of the contemporary female poets in Iran, Such as Zhaleh Qaemmaghami, Parvin Ehtesami, Simin Behbahani and the like. The article also studies the perspectives of the above-mentioned poets through a research method called descriptive-analytical approach. After gathering the documentary data (referring to books and notes...