Abstract: We employ a corpus-based approach to generate content and form in poetry. The main idea is to use two different corpora, on one hand, to provide semantic content for new poems, and on the other hand, to generate a specific grammatical and poetic structure. The approach uses text mining methods, morphological analysis, and morphological synthesis to produce poetry in Finnish. We present some promising results obtained via the combination of these methods and preliminary evaluation results of poetry generated by the system.
Tag: readings
Winged Taxonomy [PDF]
A piece from Ruthann Robson.
Jackie Kay’s language in her poetic illustration of the broons: A corpus-based contrastive study [pdf]
Abstract: The aim of this essay is to observe to what extend the contemporary Scottish poet Jackie Kay uses the language in the Scottish comic strip ‘The Broons’ so as to create the poetic voices in five of her poems, in which reference is made to the characters in this comic strip. For this purpose, we use these five poems as our main corpus and compare it to a source corpus, which includes fifty comic strips. Using the programs ‘Wordsmith’ (Scott, 1999) and ‘W-matrix’ (Rayson, 2008), key words and concordances in the poems are studied. This work highlights a different lexical selection in the poems in contrast to the comic strips as regards the topics, the use, or the presence of Scottish terms. This divergence arises due to Jackie Kay’s new representation of the characters as well as the transgression of the traditional values that the comic preserves.
Key words: Jackie Kay, The Broons, Scotland, corpus stylistics, contrastive study, culture
Poetry as Power The Dynamics of Cognitive Poetics as a Scientific and Literary Paradigm [PDF]
Abstract: In this paper, I consider some of the ways Cognitive Poetics can contribute to the restoration of the humanities as a significant approach to the study of human cognition. In particular, I show in discussing several poems by Dickinson and one by Frost how Cognitive Poetics can 1) account for a reader’s comprehension and articulation of the writer’s aesthetic achievements; 2) distinguish between prototypical and peripheral readings of a literary text, and evaluate the various interpretations produced by readers; 3) can describe the aesthetic effects of the text itself.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 23
Keywords: cognitive poetics, humanities, aesthetics, Dickinson, Frost
Philosophy and the Poetic Imagination – NYTimes.com
Poetry can help awaken us to the richness of the language that surrounds us, even in the seeming cacophony of the digital age.