We propose a model for Chinese poem generation based on recurrent neural networks which we argue is ideally suited to capturing poetic content and form. Our generator jointly performs content selection (“what to say”) and surface realization (“how to say”) by learning representations of individual characters, and their combinations into one or more lines as well as how these mutually reinforce ...

Glyphs have been successfully used in poetry visualization for depicting the characteristics and positions of each phonetic articulation in relation to the human vocal system. While existing glyph designs provide visual representations for detailed observation and external memorization of the dynamics throughout a poem, they are less effective for observing the relationship and variance between...

In his poem “Playing Haydn for the Angel of Death,” Bill Holm plays a Haydn sonata in order to entice Death into a dance, an activity that erodes his appetite for ghoulish work: when the music ends, he will “nap a while and stay away.” Death’s visit is delayed, at least for the time being. “That’s the idea,” concludes Holm. “I got it from Haydn.” Holm’s poem is just one example of a phenomenon ...

Abstract Translation of literary texts, especially poetry, is one of the most difficult tasks; it requires mastery and knowledge of the language system and culture, and lack of this might lead to wrong translation. This study aimed to examine the loss and gain of the sociocultural implicit meanings in the English translations of the Mu’allaqat, and assess whether the translators of the Mu’allaq...

This study begins with critically accepted interpretations of the poem “Ode to a nightingale”, taken from established critical positions regarding Keats. It shall then move on to peruse Keats in a novel manner, adopting The Act of Reading theory of Wolfgang Iser as a working basis. Iser (1978:958)states “the fact that completely different readers can be differently affected by the „reality‟ of ...

Recent progress in neural learning demonstrated that machines can do well in regularized tasks, e.g., the game of Go. However, artistic activities such as poem generation are still widely regarded as human’s special capability. In this paper, we demonstrate that a simple neural model can imitate human in some tasks of art generation. We particularly focus on traditional Chinese poetry, and show...

We propose a novel statistical approach to automatically generate Chinese couplets and Chinese poetry. For Chinese couplets, the system takes as input the first sentence and generates as output an N-best list of second sentences using a phrase-based SMT model. A comprehensive evaluation using both human judgments and BLEU scores has been conducted and the results demonstrate that this approach ...

BACKGROUND How best to use poetry in nursing education remains uncertain. This study explored students' perceptions of incorporating a poem into a final examination to evaluate learning in an advanced physical assessment course. METHOD Qualitative design and method were used to collect and analyze data retrieved from private interviews with seven graduate nursing students. RESULTS The theme...

The present paper presents an application that composes formal poetry in Spanish in a semiautomatic interactive fashion. ASPERA is a forward reasoning rulebased system that obtains from the user basic style parameters and an intended message; applies a knowledge-based preprocessor to select the most appropriate metric structure for the user's wishes; and, by intelligent adaptation of selected e...

A.R. Ammons's Garbage is a unique poem in all measures, starting from the title to subject matter of poem. Though it discusses ecological repercussion waste management, long written shed light on correlation between language\poetry and garbage. The paper argues that his examination garbage as both reflectors human life experience, Ammons claims redemption possible through language by scrutinizi...