In this paper a new approach towards the analysis of speech rhythm is presented. In the speech rhythm literature it was often discussed that rhythmic phenomena are more transparent in the metrical structure of orally produced poetry. However, up to now only a few phoneticians have worked on this special speaking style. For analyzing the rhythmic and prosodic patterns of this kind of speech, a c...

Numinosity refers to the spiritual power in the relationship between the individual and other people and things. The numinosity of water is discussed in the context of culture and religions. Science without consideration of numinosity can be dehumanizing. Often considered supernatural, other synonyms of numinosity include transcendent, ineffable and marvelous, not necessarily including religiou...

The letter inviting me to represent the field of poetry therapy by submitting an article for a “Special Issue on the State of the Arts” was broad enough to intrigue me and challenging enough to help me decide on a positive reply. And as I began to formulate ideas, discuss points of view with many individuals’ and gather notes, it soon became evident that I had undertaken a gigantic task that no...

Poetry is a unique artifact of Human Natural Language Production whose creation requires mastery over linguistic knowledge and creativity. Thus, generating poetry by a computer is certainly a testament to the progress of Arti cial Intelligence. This report descibes the past work in this area and also presents a working algorithm which generates poetry using semantic similarity based on WordNet[1].

This paper illustrates the potential uses of poetry therapy for practitioners interested in cognitively based psychotherapies. Separate brief discussions of cognitive therapy and the uses of poetry and poetry therapy are presented. The congruence between these two approaches is addressed. Sample exercises and poems as illustrations are presented that demonstrate this congruence. © 2005 Elsevier...

BACKGROUND Poetry plays an age-old role in the art of healing. Although medicine today seems distant from the world of poetic expression, there are surprising commonalities between the two. OBJECTIVES In this essay we reflect on three aspects of healing that are fostered by poetry. OBSERVATIONS Practicing medicine with too many facts and not enough poetry leads to dissatisfaction, disappoin...

the writers of this article present a thematical study of children’s poetry in the seventies(1990s). to do this, they have first studied a collection of children’s poetry in the seventies and then they have classified the themes of this kind of poetry into six different categories including: naturalistic, entertaining and joyful, socio-political, religious, didactic and ethical themes. the writ...

We investigate the performance of non-expert judges in using leading computational poetry evaluation metrics to evaluate poetry written by humans. We find that regardless of the model used, non-expert judges are very poor at using metrics to evaluate creativity, even displaying the reverse of the desired rating pattern, preferring novice poetry to professional poetry. We discuss likely reasons ...

Poetry conventionally is the liberated utterance of the feeling subject, “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth). The computer has taken poetry in several significant directions. With poetry on the page (electronic or otherwise), the computer has emulated human-authored texts. But it has also been used to create more experimental poetries. A further, better known, initiativ...

With the recent advances of neural models and natural language processing, automatic generation of classical Chinese poetry has drawn significant attention due to its artistic and cultural value. Previous works mainly focus on generating poetry given keywords or other text information, while visual inspirations for poetry have been rarely explored. Generating poetry from images is much more cha...