In 1968, in a remark as wise as it is learned, Professor George Clark wrote of The Battle of Maldon that “what the poet does not create does not exist even if history inspires his poem.” Readers of the poem have been mulling this over for forty years. The historical information the poem affords us has been subject, in some degree, to alteration by imagination, to the formulae of verse, and to t...

In his article on poetry in health care education, Neil Pickering puts forward an argument of radical unpredictability: as we can never know in advance how a poem will be interpreted, it can be of no external use.(1) It is, however, exactly this potential to give rise to multiple interpretations that makes the poem valuable. We hold that the poem should be read and discussed with no other inten...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Per-oral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) is a new minimally invasive technique to treat achalasia. METHODS We performed a review of the literature of POEM with a special focus on technical details and the results obtained with this technique in patients with achalasia and other esophageal motility disorders. RESULTS Thousands of POEM procedures have been performed worldwide since ...

With the accumulation of clinical trials demonstrating its efficacy and safety, peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) has emerged as a less invasive treatment option for esophageal achalasia compared with laparoscopic Heller myotomy. However, the difficulty in determining the exact extent of myotomy, a critical factor associated with the success and safety of the procedure, remains a limitation. Al...

this question may be raised in the mind of reader of this article that what motivation causes treating the feature of parnassism , in the ode of pre-islamic arab poet living hundreds of years before the rise of this school. did imru' al-qais’ belong to the time beyond his contemporary period or the problem is something else? in fact although parnassism is a new name for a special literary schoo...

Peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) has been developed in the context of natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) as a minimally invasive endoscopic treatment for symptomatic esophageal achalasia, which is a chronic progressive benign disease with severe morbidity and difficult management. Since September 2008, POEM has been successfully performed in more than 200 consecutive patie...

Peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) is a new endoscopic treatment for achalasia with very good short-term results in adults. Data about POEM in pediatric patients are missing. We present the case of a 10-year-old male patient with type I (classic) achalasia, successfully treated with POEM. The procedure was accomplished in a similar fashion to the technique used in adults. Short-term results were...

Heine’s poem ‘Still ist die Nacht, es ruhen die Gassen’ (‘The night is still, the streets are dumb’), written in the early 1820s, describes a nocturnal encounter between the poet and his double. The poet returns to stand under the window of the house where his beloved once lived, only to find his double on duty in his place. To the poet, the double’s sighs and hand-wringing seem to be a mocking...

Latin America is witnessing a revival in the literary production of indigenous languages, yet contemporary writers must often negotiate between different cultural understandings what literature should be. The purpose this article to take one bilingual poem, composed Yucatec Maya and Spanish, as case study writerly conflict paradigm ts’íib ‘Western’ ideal letrado. written by Javier Abelardo Góme...

Adrienne Rich’s poem “The Ninth Symphony of Beethoven Understood at Last as a Sexual Message” has become fixture in musicological accounts and the ever since its introduction to discipline an influential essay by Susan McClary. But though work been cited numerous books articles intervening decades, it remained yoked McClary’s text, with critics rarely considering on own terms. This paper consid...