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 ...

the process of poetry in kuwait has always been progressive during the past centuries as well as the present century. this progression has raised remarkable questions such as is the good economical situation because of the foundation of petrol in this country and so on. the last question is about the time of formation of rticulate poetry in kuwait. the poets of kuwait do not care about the publ...

The present study retested previously reported empirical evidence suggesting an iconic relation between sound and emotional meaning in poetry. To this end, we analyzed the frequency of certain phoneme classes in 48 German poems and correlated them with ratings for emotional classification. Our analyses provide evidence for a link between the emotional classification of poems (joyful vs. sad) an...

Smart space technologies have entered the mainstream home market. Most users currently interact with smart homes that they (or an acquaintance) set up and know well. However, as these spread to commercial or public environments, will need frequently unfamiliar spaces where are unaware of available capabilities system maintainer not be present help. Users quickly independently 1) discover what i...

Conveying scientific content with accuracy and fluency takes practice and requires deep understanding of the concepts being conveyed. This depth of knowledge comes from internalizing information and constructing it into a form that is unique and coherent to the individual. Often in science classrooms there is little or no opportunity for students to practice this type of thinking, activities th...

We, a diverse group of South African academics, study embodied reflexivity through poetry, and this article is an account poetic inquiry inspired by assemblages created the participants in symposium, Object Inquiry for Social Cohesion Public Higher Education. As symposium’s cofacilitators, we wondered how what might learn from reading poetically as explorations social cohesion. We describe symp...

The aim of this article is to assess the role of postmodern parody in the deconstruction and the reconfiguration of the literary canon. The canon is a concept and a heuristic metaphor which in Romania has started being discussed in a systematic manner only after 1989. The Romanian version of postmodernism is undoubtedly indebted to the Western model, but its promoters (writers of the ’80s, main...

INTRODUCTION Creative expression of scientific observations and principles through poetry and other media can enrich medical and science education. This debunks the expectation that science and poetry, for example, are mutually exclusive (Figure 1). Instead of coexisting as parallel lanes without interaction, poetry and science can cross over as one merges lanes. Kurtz and Loewenstein suggest t...

Introduction Preamble -Aesthetics | Poetry and Islam | Poetry and warlords | Poetry and Afghanistan -Poetry and Kazakhstan | Poetry and the Caucasus | Poetry and the Middle East -Poetic leadership | Poetic protest | Prosaic dialogue Indicative possibilities of reframing strategic engagement Clarification of Islamic views Improvisation in poetic debate -Poetic discourse as a lost art | Poetic en...