Runic echoes permeate saga literature; the runes of divine origin, rúnar reginkunnar, of the Sparlösa and Noleby stones recur in Hávamál, while the evocative Swedish Skarpåker runestone (Jör› skal rifna ok upphiminn) or the Danish Ribe stick (Jör› bi› ek uar›a ok upphiminn) are strongly reminiscent of Germanic poetry (cf. Jansson 1987: 140f.). References to elves and trolls, and even invocation...

The current study used event-related brain potentials (ERPs) and behavioral measures to examine effects of genre awareness on sentence processing and evaluation. We hypothesized that genre awareness modulates effects of genre-typical manipulations. We manipulated instructions between participants, either specifying a genre (poetry) or not (neutral). Sentences contained genre-typical variations ...

Most modern and post-modern poems have developed a post-metrical idea of lyrical prosody that employs rhythmical features of everyday language and prose instead of a strict adherence to rhyme and metrical schemes. This development is subsumed under the term free verse prosody. We present our methodology for the large-scale analysis of modern and post-modern poetry in both their written form and...

Text generation is a foundational task in natural language processing, forming the core of a diverse set of practical applications ranging from image captioning and text summarization to question answering. However, most of this work has focused on generating prose. We investigate whether deep learning systems can be used to synthesize poetry, in particular Shakespearean-styled works. Previous ...

Eco-poetry as a modern literary theory is branch of ecocriticism which focuses on the relationship between man and physical world. Using Latin American Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda’s selected poetry, this paper sets out to explore themes mystical spiritual consciousness through eco-poetical evidence. This study utilizes theoretical framework eco-poetry illuminate dual ecological phenomenon, ...

â â â  contemporary arabic poetry in khuzestan â  â  â  * gholamhosein karimifard â  malek kab omyr ** â  â  abstract â â â  khuzestan arabic poetry in contemporary age has continued its progress and dehiscence. in spite of following old poetry, it shows the changes and renewal in the form and poetical objects and style. this poetry has been influenced by contemporary arabic poetry and its poet...

"With poetry, the tune is in the words themselves-and once you begin to hear it, it will stay with you." Richard P. Korf, notes to his narration of John Brown's Body.

Background: Infertility is global problem that leads to psychological complications. Studies show that the psychological damage caused by infertility is far greater in women that in men. Infertility reduces psychological well-being and causes infertility stress in infertile women. The objective of the present research was to determine the effectiveness of a positive thinking based poetry therap...

Abstract Poetry evokes mental imagery in its readers. But how is precisely related to poetry? This article provides a systematic treatment. It clarifies two roles of relation poetry—as an effect generated by poetry and as efficient means for understanding appreciating poetry. The also relates the discussion on ‘heresy paraphrase’. argues against orthodox view that imagistic effects cannot be ca...