The present study retested previously reported empirical evidence suggesting an iconic relation between sound and emotional meaning in poetry. To this end, we analyzed the frequency of certain phoneme classes in 48 German poems and correlated them with ratings for emotional classification. Our analyses provide evidence for a link between the emotional classification of poems (joyful vs. sad) an...

This article examines the rise and fall of the Peace Process and questions the reason for which the United States of America was successful in bringing the two sides to the negotiating table during the 1990s. It investigates the reason for which the process ultimately failed, as well as the reason for which Washingtonwas unsuccessful in restarting the peace process in the past decade. It is arg...

literature is the reflection of a poet's mind and feelings affected by the world around him. the poet experiences and feels the incidents and expresses them in a language so as to make the reader share those feelings with him. a great part of persian literature is devoted to poets' resistance against attacks on national, human and cultural values. this study aims at examining tahereh ...

irony is a tool that implicitly treats social realities by drawing upon wit. such wit is backed up with silent thought and contemplation that would quietly yet effectively shriek man out of his slumber of oblivion. thus, irony is a means to an end and a weapon aimed at certain individuals or groups of people. among the features of ibrahim touqan’s poetry is the sincere and passionate obsession ...

Background: Folk beliefs include myths, stories, poems, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs about luck and sore eyes, mother lullabies, indigenous carols, mirrors, rituals and traditions, and are always full of spirit. With tyranny and blackness and perseverance against oppression. The themes in the folk poems of Khuzestan about the war express the background of oral literatur...

mohammad mahdi javaheri is one of the iraqi greatest poets. most of his poetry expresses social and political concepts. he was interested in national and metropolitan poetry. the resistance notions can be seen in his poetry a lot. hamid sabzvari is also a revolutionary poet. bot poets were originally iranian and both of supporters of oppressed ones and resisted against oppressiveness. resistanc...

resistance poetry is one of the cornerstones of contemporary arabic literature and is one of the vastest realms of poetry poets have concerned themselves with. the poet of resistance does not have any choice but to write his own destiny and invite others to freedom and independence and be devoted to the interests of his society. a careful look at the contemporary poetry of tunisia reveals that ...

with the unfolding of recent developments in the arab world and fall of political systems in some of arab countries as well as spread of islamic thoughts, new grounds have been created for new wave of islamic awakening. it seems that this wave has become dynamic over the past few years. islamic awakening is an opportunity for realization of the ideal of palestine. the present paper is an attemp...

the present paper is concerned with the structural characteristics and contents of the russian resistance poets from the outset up to the end of the world war ii, 1941-1945. regarding the linguistic and literary structures of the resistance poetry of this period, such features as changes in the lexical structure of poems, outspokenness, proximity of poetry to slogans can be easily observed. sem...