The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how poetry and poetry therapy are useful tools in existentially oriented psychotherapeutic practice. This paper will accomplish this aim in several ways. First, a brief introduction to poetry therapy will be presented. Second, the main principles of existential therapy will be explored. Third, the congruence between poetry therapy and existential theo...

prose in particular can modify an unsuspecting reader’s physiological and emotional states profoundly. the semantic priming test in modern psychology exploits this phenomenon—for example, people start to feel and behave as though they have suddenly grown older after they have read a scrambled sequence of words enriched with ageingrelated connotations (Srull & Wyer, 1979). the priming effect is ...

Ta‘miye, which is the process of encrypting person names and epithets in verse prosetexts with orthographic figurative methods, expanded its scope over time createdthe muamma poems considered an independent poetic genre whose first examplesappeared Arabic literature. Poem examples that are evaluated as works within themuamma brought to our literature by translation Persian treatises MirHussein ...

Many opinions have been discussed about the place of literature in society so far. The overwhelming majority is opinion that a mirror society. On other hand, Formalism, as literary theory, argues purpose literariness. Therefore, it accepted rebellion against understanding dating back to 1900s. Instead, suggested work should be studied text-oriented. Furthermore, Formalists argue language examin...

In offering a brief sketch of some aspects of Herodotus’ use of lyric poetry I shall restrict myself to melic poetry. I shall start with explicit allusions, and then turn to some passages for which Herodotus’ source must have been lyric poetry, and indeed rather grand lyric poetry, though he conceals this. We learn something about his principles and methodology, but also about the diffusion of ...

We demonstrate an expanded procedure for assessing drug-label comprehension. Innovations include a pretest of drug preconceptions, verbal ability and label attentiveness measures, a label-scanning task, a free-recall test, category-clustering measures, and preconception-change scores. In total, 55 female and 39 male undergraduates read a facsimile Drug Facts Label for aspirin, a Cohesive-Prose ...

Zusammenfassung The analysis of space-semantic oppositions – as developed by Jurij Lotman and extended Karl Renner Hans Krah plays a much greater role in analysing prose than poetry. However, the focus on spatial temporal oppositions, connection topological semantic features subspaces, well possible borders their potential crossing can make significant contribution to interpretation lyrical tex...