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...

My purpose in this paper is to help you experience for yourself the potential of poetry to heal by feeling its power through your own voice. Many people have an intuitive sense that voice in general and poetry in particular can be healing. We have all experienced the comfort of soothing words. Finding the words to articulate a traumatic experience can bring relief. A letter between friends who ...

This paper presents the current advances in “The Muses of Poetry”, an on-going project that combines interaction, emotions and poetry. The goal of the project is to create an interactive installation where a virtual character not only recites poetry, but also manifests the affective content of the poem through facial expressions and voice rhythm. The novelty of our work is the combination of di...

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...

The ultimate goal of the poetry assistant currently under development in our lab is an application to be used either as a poetry game or as a teaching tool for both poetry and grammar, including the complex relationships between sound and meaning. Until now we focused on the automatic classification of poems and the suggestion of the ending word for a verse. The classification module is based o...

The universe is a grand book, Galileo noted in 1623, written in the language of mathematics (1). Those poor souls who don’t understand that language, he cautioned, wander about in a “dark labyrinth.” As languages go, mathematics can be intimidating. Plenty of people linger in the shade of Galileo’s labyrinth. To the uninitiated, equations, theorems, and proofs—to say nothing of their constituen...

Historical research shows that many physicians experienced in medical sciences are also talented in art, literature and poetry. Avicenna was a sage who was skilled in poetry in addition to philosophy and medicine. He wrote two different types of poetry: those meant to be enjoyed for their literary qualities of novelty and imagination, and his didactic Urjuzeh. Didactic poems are different from ...

At the time of its publication, Nima Yushij’s “Qoqnus” (The Phoenix) emerged as a radical departure from the norms and conventions of classical Persian poetry. Nima employed phoenix symbolism in this poem to present his zeal for a literary renaissance. Likewise, George Darley (1795-1846), the Irish Romantic poet who found himself lonely and isolated at the mitigating time borders of Romanticism...