Possible Lines of Approach • Representative status of IM for the Victorian era, poet laureateship • IM and the culture of mourning, public and private, mourning process, melancholia • Form and structure of IM, composition over 17 years, issue of unity vs. division • Poetics: tetrameter, abba rhyme scheme, repetition, use of apostrophe • Comparison with other elegies (e.g. Milton’s “Lycidas,” Sh...

Interest in the mathematical structure of poetry dates back to at least the 19 century: after retiring from his mathematics position, J. J. Sylvester wrote a book on prosody called The Laws of Verse. Today there is interest in the computer analysis of poems, and this paper discusses how a statistical approach can be applied to this task. Starting with the definition of what Middle English allit...

The presentation of local Indian themes and ideas in the poems written English can be analysed as an important decolonizing attempt efforts to establish a distinct variety language. Braj B. Kachru’s (1990) concept ‘World Englishes’ has been widely discussed by large number linguists researchers worldwide for more than three decades which emphasizes on recognition national varieties Internationa...