The analysis of sound and sonic devices in poetry is the focus of much poetic scholarship, and poetry scholars are becoming increasingly interested in the role that computation might play in their research. Since the nature of such sonic analysis is unique, the associated tasks are not supported by standard text analysis techniques. We introduce a formalism for analyzing sonic devices in poetry...

â â â  poetic stories in ilia abu mazi’s poetic works â â â  sadeq fathi dehkordi * â  shlyr fathi ** â  abstract â  â  poetic story is a kind of art firmly connected to poetry and story and is a sign of restoration in arabic poetry furthermore, it is an artistic field for presenting poets' ability in putting poetry and tale together. this genre has included many current poetic works. ab...

The central purpose of science is to explain. However, who is that explanation for, and how is this explanation communicated once it has been deduced? Scientific research is typically communicated via papers in journals, with an abstract presented as a summary of that explanation. However, in many instances they may be written in a manner which is non-communicatory to a lay reader. This study b...

OETRY is not only central in the title, but for the study of the Hebrew Bible. There is no intention here of disvaluing the prose of the Bible, which constitutes the first major literary composition in that medium ever produced, so far as I am aware, whether we speak of the so-called Court History and the J source of the Pentateuch of the 10th century B.C., or the composite whole which we may c...

Any poem can be characterized by its rhythm which is also revealing of the poet's peculiar style. In turn, the poem's rhythm is based mainly on two elements: meter, that is distribution of stressed and unstressed syllables in the verse, presence of rhyming and other poetic devices like alliteration, assonance, consonance, enjambements, etc. which contribute to poetic form at stanza level. Tradi...

Introduction. Most of the existing neurophysiological literature on metaphors comprehension focuses on the processing conventional metaphors (Coulson & Van Petten 2002) or generic novel metaphors (Tartter et al. 2002, Lai et al. 2009). Except for a few studies including poetic metaphors in Hebrew (Arzouan et al. 2007, Faust & Mashal 2007), no extensive neurophysiological investigation on the pr...

In many of my writings I have argued that poetic images have no fixed predetermined meanings. In my 1992 book What Makes Sound Patterns Expressive?—The Poetic Mode of Speech Perception (originally published in 1987) I propounded the view that speech sounds do not have fixed predetermined symbolic values either.1 Poetic images as well as speech sounds are clusters of features, each of which may ...

In Poetic Effects Adrian Pilkington proposes that Sperber and Wilson's (1986; 1995) relevance theory can help fill the explanatory gap between textual patterns and their potential aesthetic effects. Before applying relevance theory to poetic texts, Pilkington first presents his position with regard to literary theory. This position is not unproblematic, however, and therefore requires some disc...