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Kurunthogai is a classical Tamil poetic work (a collection of poems by different authors) from the Sangam literature, which is more than two thousand years old. The poems belong to the akam (love between man and woman) category, and each poem consists of 4 to 8 lines each, except poem 307 and 391 which have 9 lines. This paper discusses the content of the poem number 40, which describes the passion men and women in deep love have for one another, and how they describe the love they have for one another. Apart from the passionate description of love between men and women, this poem subtly points out how this love transcends all barriers, using a very ordinary, day to day sight or process in nature, which is easily and always taken for granted and not even noticed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I present and analyze a verse meter transitional between syllabotonic and purely accentual. Russian scholars, who were the first to notice and study this meter, have called it the dolnik, and I am using this term here. I analyze English and German dolnik poetry, comparing it to its Russian counterpart. Western metrists have overlooked this form, confusing it with neighboring metrical types, yet the dolnik, or strict stress-meter, warrants investigation as a verse form in its own right. In the late Middle Ages, following the influence of French syllabic verse and Medieval Latin hymns on accentual Germanic prosody, a verse form evolved in which a consistent number of syllables between adjacent stresses was not required, yet complete freedom was not allowed: the number of unstressed syllables was typically restricted to one or two. After having virtually disappeared from Germanic literary poetry, the dolnik was revived during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries when English and German literature was recalling its past. The German and particularly the English literary dolnik was based on the most popular binary meter of the epoch--the iamb. I focus on the dolnik in English texts from Southey to Frost and in German texts by Heine and Benn. I compare these to the Russian literary dolnik, which has no folk predecessor. It came into existence in the twentieth century and evolved from the ternary meters. Establishing and. distinguishing the dolnik from adjacent verse forms, I show that different metrical boundaries have been set up by Russian, German, and English poets. The different origin of the Germanic literary dolnik, on the one hand, and its Russian counterpart, on the other, has played an important role. Difference in linguistic structure, particularly the length of words, is equally important. Further, I study formal differences between particular groups of poems and their thematic and stylistic "preferences": different verse forms gravita... [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I determine that near-sameness, as opposed to the paradigm of sameness in Continental cultures, comprised to varying degrees a principle of poetic patterning in the Insular languages (i.e., English, Welsh, and Irish) during the initial stages of literacy in their respective societies. A movement toward regularizing patterns took place later under the impact of a more advanced stage of literacy, whereby near-sameness was eventually abandoned for sameness in English while becoming an obligatory feature of versification in Welsh and Irish. I show how the early Insular literatures manifest intricate patterns of phonological equivalence based on different forms of near-sameness. I address both the segmental and suprasegmental near-sameness that was relevant for metrical purposes in the respective cultures, such as oxytonic and paroxytonic cadences in Welsh and Irish and "resolutions" in English; morphological alternations in Welsh and Irish (initial mutations); and phoneme splits (due to palatalization) in Old English. I further consider whether this obvious predilection for near-sameness was due to coincidence, (mutual) influence, or genetic inheritance and development ("drift"). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers poetry criticism of the poem "The Walls Do Not Fall" by H. D. It explores the combination of imagery of vulnerability and powerlessness with claims of the ability of poetry to impact reality. The composition of the poem during the Battle of Britain is emphasized, along with H. D.'s purpose of writing the poem. The author provides a critical interpretation of the poem and provide different meaning behind some Egyptian symbols.

The article discusses the versification and poetic style of Middle English poet John Gower. It focuses on the different types of decasyllabic line used by Gower as well as how this style influenced his contemporary, Geoffrey Chaucer. Other topics covered include Gower's long-line verse design, inversions in Gower's texts, and Gower's reputation as a metrical artist and an poetic innovator.

The article focuses on the poem "Double Negative," written by Canadian feminists Daphne Marlatt and Betsy Warland. The author discusses the social identity of authors and the implications of their poetic form and language, explores the deconstruction of public and private themes within the love lyric, and analyzes the relationship between sexuality and textuality within the work.

The article analyzes the poem "Camp Notes" by Mitsuye Yamada. It looks at how political and cultural identity influences her development of poetics, as well as the impact of her experiences in a U.S. Japanese internment camp during the 1940s. Particular attention is also given to how the poem addresses the obligations and duties of citizens and its portrayal of camp community life.

The article forms a parallelism between the logocentric poetic practice of Saint Augustine and that of English poet Edmund Spenser. The author discusses the language use and misuse in the poem "The Faerie Queene," explores the ratio in "On Free Choice of the Will," and examines the process from ratio to verbum in his work.

Focuses on poetic syllogism from the perspective of Arab literary theory. Natural outgrowth of currents of thought that go back to the early days of Islam; Complex theories based on Aristotle's `Poetics'; Role of the Arabs in transmitting Aristotelian thought to the West; Poetry in the Arab world during the rise of Islam; Deintellectualization of poetry; Concept of takhyil.