In order to organize the widely dispersed manuscripts of Walt Whitman, The Walt Whitman Archive, in partnership with the University of NebraskaLincoln Libraries, has utilized the power of Encoded Archival Description (EAD) to create a single, scholarly enhanced guide to Whitman’s poetry manuscripts. This integrated finding guide to Whitman’s poetry manuscripts includes item-level description, l...

some simple directions for their treatment, the whole interpersed with occasional scraps of poetry. " Regular washing of the body is," we are told "indispensable for nursing mothers in order to keep the pores of the skin perfectly clean." "Children should be strictly prohibited from using wine, beer or brandy, which is productive of serious derangement. There is an instance where the bowels of ...

The influence of general wine imagery vividness on consumers' reported desire to drink was investigated. In Study 1, the Vividness Wine Imagery Questionnaire (VWIQ) revised and validated so that it included dimensions sight, smell, flavor, mouthfeel. Mouthfeel is an important factor in appreciation, both for consumers experts. 2, we demonstrated usage VWIQ a consumer context: participants were ...

meaning has a significant role in content formation and literariness of a poem, just as form does. however, meaning and innovation get greater importance and broader field in modern poetry. present paper is to analyze the role of meaning in putting distinction between the content of poetic text and other non-literary works. in this regard, a comparative analysis has been conducted on descriptiv...

Contemporary poetry appears in a diverse range of forms and medial constellations: in spoken word events live on stage, on audio CDs – spoken by the poets themselves or by professional speakers, at times accompanied by music or beats –, in YouTube videos, as entertaining ‘poetry clips,’ as artistic poetry films in art installations in museums, public spaces or the cinema. Finally, there is a wi...

BACKGROUND Arts based approaches have been used in health education in various ways e.g. to develop emotional awareness, reduce anxiety and stress and assess communication skills. OBJECTIVES This evaluation aimed to explore the use of poetry writing as a way for undergraduate nursing students to consider their feelings about important practice issues. METHODS 42 first year undergraduate nur...

The role of the humanities (eg, philosophy, bioethics, literature, music, theater, religion, anthropology) in medical education has been argued long and hard for decades. It is argued that the study of subjects included in the humanities can enhance critical thinking skills, foster a deeper level of learning and understanding, and help to enhance one's level of compassion, empathy, and moral/et...

In 1953, the Swiss poet Eugen Gomringer published a collection of his works, each only one word in length. He referred to them as constellations and insisted that it was the positioning of the word on the page that was of more importance than the meaning of the word itself. In that same year, in Sweden, Oyvind Fahlstrom wrote a Concrete Poetry Manifesto, however he apparently had no knowledge o...