The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) Approach claims that there are some universalities in all languages. Speech acts seem to be present in all languages, but considering this approach, research has not indicated whether request speech act differs from one language to another. Thus, this study intended to investigate whether request strategies are used differently in English and Persian roma...

This thesis aims at studying the conception of nature in William Wordsworth’s poetry. As one remarkable representatives romantic period, Wordsworth played an incomparable significant role development English poetry, and also laid a foundation for its further development. Influenced by social background personal experience, natural poetry broke through shackles neoclassical literature gradually ...

Acknowledgements There are numerous people to whom I owe due gratitude. First and foremost I would like to thank my advisor Professor Terry Tyler, for his support, wisdom, and endless patience throughout the entire thesis process. You can't get to the show without a chauffeur. I would like to thank Professor Alison Hickey, Wellesley's own Romantic poet specialist, for introducing me to the Roma...

This paper discusses the idea of ‘ecopoetry’ by outlining its development from drawing on Romantic and deep ecological traditions in the 1980s to reflecting complex environmental concerns in the 2010s. We identify a distinction between definitions that focus on poetry’s ability to heighten individual readers’ awareness of their physical surroundings on the one hand, and definitions that look fo...

How do standards of poetic beauty change as a function of time and expertise? Here we use computational methods to compare the stylistic features of 359 English poems written by 19th century professional poets, Imagist poets, contemporary professional poets, and contemporary amateur poets. Building upon techniques designed to analyze style and sentiment in texts, we examine elements of poetic c...

Languages are means by which speakers and writers communicate their common beliefs personal attitudes. This study thus sought to analyze the attitudinal resources in four modern English poems written international poetess Lang Leav. The main aim was find out kind of worldview attempted share with her readers from perspective system. system is divided into three sub-systems: Affect, judgment, ap...

How do standards of poetic beauty change as a function of time and expertise? Here we use computational methods to compare the stylistic features of 359 English poems written by 19th century professional poets, Imagist poets, contemporary professional poets, and contemporary amateur poets. Building upon techniques designed to analyze style and sentiment in texts, we examine elements of poetic c...