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...

Contemporary poetry can be divided into the poetry of before and after the Islamic Revolution. Among the post-revolutionary poetry, the Pishro or avant-garde Poetry is the most important style of poetry. The well-known figure of this kind of poetry is Reza Baraheni (1935- ) who became the most influential poet of the Post-Revolution Poetry with the publication of his Khetab be Parvane ha and in...

palestinian woman poets have frequently used mythical concepts, especially those of god's messengers, in their poems, and they have sometimes been inspired by these myths. although myths have ancient origins, they endow the contemporary poet's thoughts with a deep scope, while, at the same time, the poet reprocesses them and give them the present day flavour. therefore, most poems by ...

both iran and iraq during their countries’ histories have seen numerous political events. the most important event that can be seen in contemporary histories of both countries is war. the involvement of both nations with ominous phenomena of war has caused the formation of somewhat similar approaches in the cultures of these two countries. one of these similar approaches is the formation of res...

the influence of social conditions on literature is an issue that many critics and scholars confirm and prove it; as duality is one of the manifestations of the influence of social conditions on the poet. it means that whenever the ambitions and beliefs of poet opposes the social facts, the duality will manifests in his poetry. the reality that the contemporary poets live in, imposes strong con...

This comparative study aims at highlighting the symbolism of olive tree in Palestinian and Spanish poetry. Since is elemental both cultures, attempts to tackle four main themes such a dominant tree: resistance, peace, eternity, homeland. In order conduct study, number poems employing are investigated analyzed highlight closeness between cultures. The tries prove matchfullness poetries. selectio...

ahmad showqi is one of the outstanding contemporary poets and had such an important state among the poets who were called poet laureate. quran played as a spring which he enjoyed it a lot for his poetry. by studying his poetry we come to conclusion that holy quran had a significant effect on showqi’s poetry and he had used its vocabulary and semantics in all his poetry. doomsday and its images ...