Seriously funny: James Merrill's puns by McAlpine, E

“…AUDEN wrote that ‘Good poets have a weakness for bad puns’. A punster himself, Auden needed it to be true. …”

Environment and home in Mahmoud Darwish’s poetry: an ecological perspective by Ruzy Suliza Hashim, Ahmed, Hamoud Yahya

“…Throughout the fifty years of the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’s writing life, home is a predominant theme in his poetry. …”
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The evaluation of “repetition" from the formalistic point view by Bahiyeh Ahmadi Bidguli, Mohammad Reza Qari

“…Deviation process causes art ambiguity in the poetry of poets and the mind of audience in the faced with defamiliaristic try to order the elements of sentence and effort to understand the relationship between its elements and this delay/pause which happen to comprehend the poets, make reader more pleasure.   …”
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THE CHARACTER OF ʿALĪ IN THE POEMS OF NĀSIR-I KHUSRAW AND SANĀ'Ī GHAZNAVĪ by Aygün Alizade

“…Among these poets Nasir Khusrow and Sanai Ghaznavi should be mentioned specially. …”
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A Kind of Ellipsis in Shahnameh by Ali Mohammadi, Entesar Parastegari

“…However, in 10th to 13th century AD, there had been a kind of ellipsis in Persian that involved a specific structure and poets have looked at it as a literal and linguistic technique. …”
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A Comparative Study of the Mythical time in Sohrab Sepehri’s Poems and Mikhail Lermontov by Yekta Mir Ahmadi, Fateme Casi

“…Mikhail Lermontov, the 19th century Russian poet, is one of the elites of his country. With his worldview and attention to Eastern myths, he has been able to reflect myths and mythical time in his works. …”
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A Comparative Study of the Theme of "the Justification of God’s Providence" in the Outlooks of Sa’di and Alexander Pope by Shadi Mohyeddin Ghomshei, Jalal Sokhanvar

“…The mystics, including great poets, as well as classical philosophers and theosophists, have integrated the three concepts into One who is the final unique essence and the source of all Truth, the First Cause and the Last Return. …”
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Words, River, Changes: Writing Lewiston, Maine by Jane Costlow

“…This essay describes and reflects on the central river of a small post-industrial city in Maine (USA), interweaving the author’s experience of place with the voices of three local poets, as a way of considering how the city and its river have been represented—as pastoral, abject, beautiful, and hybrid.…”
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Ruínas de mundos perdidos: a estética residual de Brennand by Ana Luiza Andrade

“…Besides analyzing Brennand’s heads as remainders of worlds which were lost in catastrophes, it relates Brennand’s sculptures to ruins in the works of some writers and poets such as Osman Lins, Antonio José Ponte, João Cabral de Melo Neto and Jorge Luis Borges.…”
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Análise cultural do torrão dos infernos: imaginário do mal nas poéticas de Dante Milano e Nauro Machado by Alexandre Fernandes Corrêa

“…This is an introduction to the cultural analysis of the imaginary of evil expressed in two works by Brazilian poets from different regions of the country. It is a com- parative study of the poetry of Dante Milano (RJ) and Nauro Machado (MA), through which we propose an archaeological excavation of the remains of the representation of evil in social and literary unconscious.…”
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"With his Classics in mind" : la Méditerranée frostienne ou l’appel des muses antiques by Candice Lemaire

“…Our exploration of the Frostian fascination for the ancient Mediterranean world will be based on the poet’s 1961 trip to Israel and Greece and his reappropriation of such a legacy.…”
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Hölderlin – der Dichter des Dichters. Im Anhang: Grundzüge von Hölderlins Homburger Poetologie by Michael Franz

“…Revising Heidegger’s dictum about Hölderlin being «the poet’s poet» and the philosopher’s remarks on the «essence» of poetry, the emphasis is shifted on the “method” of poetry, a crucial question for Hölderlin, which is here analyzed on the basis of his “Homburg poetology” (cfr. the table in the appendix) as well as of his poetry and prose.…”
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Presence of India in the work of Octavio Paz by Fabienne Bradu

“…This essay reviews the presence of India on the literature of the poet Octavio Paz, using for this aim the metaphor of palimpsest, with layers of sense and experience superimposed. …”
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Św. Romanos Melodos - hymnos akathistos. Bizantyńska muzyka i poezja liturgiczna by Wojciech Sowa

“… The aim of this article is to show the poetry of Saint Romanos the Melodist, one of the greatest poets of the Byzantine Empire, the most probable autor of the Akathistos Hymnos - dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and to situate this lyric masterpiece in the Christian literary tradition, in the theology, and aesthetics. …”
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Bilingues délibérément francophones by Jalel El Gharbi

“…Three Tunisian poets of French expression (Garmadi, Kacem and Bekri) were originally teachers of Arabic. …”
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The Reception of Jeremiah in Modern Hebrew Literature by Michael Avioz

“…Looking at some illustrative examples of the reception of Jeremiah in modern Hebrew literature, this article explores how both the prophet and the book named after him were reworked by modern Hebrew authors and poets in the body of literary works in Hebrew that emerged during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Europe in the wake of the Enlightenment.…”
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The desfamiliarization: a sudden exile of perception by Olga Guerizoli-Kempinska

“…Translated in several different ways, the concept of desfamiliarization was largely motivated by the dialogue between the theory of art and the practice of the futurist poets and artists. As an open and fecund concept, desfamiliarization stresses the necessity to radically reinvent, through the art, the ways of the perception.…”
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Cuba y Francia: Transparencias fugaces de un desencuentro (1808-1814) by Katia Figueredo Cabrera

“…Selected poems do not represent a whole, but within the levels shown are an obvious sign of growing diversity metrics in its various manifestations, as well as Francophobia fueled by the emotional charge "patriotic" and the creative will of the residents poets in the largest of the Antilles.…”
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O espaço urbano como construção poética do sujeito by Susanna Busato

“…The lyric aspect in the poet’s work is objective and sensitive towards urban scenes in which all the objects play a role as images of the cities’ routine, in which space is performed as the drama of thesubject who sees the scene.…”
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Title not available by Mario Murgia

“…Emphasis is placed on the limitations —or likely formal advantages— presented to the translator by Poe’s schematic ideas on poetic composition, particularly those in which sense is subordinated to the poet’s rhythmical and metrical peculiarities.…”
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