Classical Poetry Research Articles

The Main Themes, Motifs and Images Of A.Feinberg's Lyrics

Alexander Arkadyevich Feinberg is one of the first Russian-speaking national poet of Uzbekistan. The work of Alexander Feinberg continued the best traditions of classical poetry, and contributed to the widespread spread of the Russian language and literature, culture in our country. In this article highlights of the main themes, motifs and images of A.Feinberg's lyrics and its importance in youth artistic notions.

An Analysis of the Musicality of Yong Liu’s Yulinling: Farewell in Autumn Based on the Perspective of Language Musicology

From the perspective of linguistic musicology, this paper discusses the musical features of Yulinling: Farewell in Autumn, a representative work of Yong Liu, a famous lyricist of the Song Dynasty. Through a systematic analysis of the core elements of the poem, such as rhyme, timbre, key, and rhythm, it reveals the intrinsic connection between poetry and music and proposes a new way of thinking about the modern interpretation of ancient poetic songs. This paper not only enriches the understanding of Yong Liu’s works but also provides new theoretical support for modern music education of classical poetry. In addition, this paper explores the practical application value of poetic musicality analysis in cultural inheritance and modern adaptation of classical poems, providing new insights into the contemporary inheritance of cultural heritage.

Representation of Cultural Values in Balochi Classical Poetry

Representation of Cultural Values in Balochi Classical Poetry

RHYME IN CONTEMPORARY POETIC DISCOURSE: COMMUNICATIVE-PRAGMATIC CHARACTERISTICS

The article is dedicated to exploring the role of rhyme in the English poetic discourse of the XXI century. Rhyme, being the central element of most poetic genres, has unique pragmatic effect both when it is present (in classical verse) and absent (in verse libre). The role of rhyme ranges from ensuring memorization to broader communicative and cognitive influences, as justified by the studies reviewed in the article. The aim of the article is to contrast practices of using and omitting rhyme in contemporary English poetry and to reveal the pragmatic potential of rhyme. For this purpose, works of contemporary poets are scrutinized via methods of comparison and contrast, pragmatic analysis and stylistic analysis. Our findings show that rhyme, whenever present, serves not only for text memorization or embellishment, but also has deeper relations with the core of the poem. In case of verse libre or blank verse, the absence of rhyme (especially when paired with the graphic element of ignoring capital letters) turns a poem into a dynamic work, an unfinished process. An increasing tendency of ignoring rhyme in contemporary English poetry might be linked to the graphic character of poetry itself. Whenever rhyme is absent, there is an “extra” element which fills its place, and usually those elements are either graphical additions or peculiarities of punctuation. The scientific novelty of the article lies in revealing the pragmatic role of rhyme and justifying that this role is fulfilled even when rhyme is absent. The theoretical and practical significance of the article lies in exploring the role of rhyme considering pragmatics, stylistics, and cognitive poetics.

The Poetic Image and its Role in the Visitor/Poet Shawqī’s Interaction with the Historical Monuments: An Analysis Study

The relationship between archaeology and language is one of the main subjects of both fields since most remains are related to humans and society. Linguists examine aspects and types of human language, such as the poetic language used in the context of recovering the past, its memories, and the referential meaning of its places. Based on the interrelation between Archaeological anthropology, language, and poetry, this study analyzes the neo-classical poet Aḥmad Shawqī's (1932) Sīnīya "Journey to Andalusia" in the light of the works of the linguist and anthropologist Arnold Van Gennep's (1957) "rites of passage" and the religious language scholar Theodore Gaster's (1992) "seasonal pattern," as employed by the critic Suzanne Stetkevych in reading the rituals of the journey in classic poetry. The study uses the descriptive method to uncover the poet's interactions with Islamic antiquities during his travels to Spain. It also shows the poet's movement, through his poetic language and images, from nostalgia to evocating the lost past Islamic remains, ending with blame to strengthening his Egyptian community's present and enlightening their future.

Recusatio, Prolepsis, and Popular Sentiment in Tennyson's Juvenilia

Tennyson’s early poems in Poems, by Two Brothers is remarkable for its insistence on maturity, a feature that Laurie Langbauer calls prolepsis, evident in an advertisement for this volume, presumably a jointly written by Alfred and Charles, in which the two brothers boldly announce their entry into the profession of poetry: “But so it is: we have passed the Rubicon, and we leave the rest to fate; though its edict may create a fruitless regret that we ever emerged from ‘the shade,’ and courted notoriety” (Tennyson and Tennyson, Advertisement). With this language and their subsequent volume of poems, Charles and Alfred Tennyson participate in a common schoolboy tradition of writing poetry as if already imagining themselves fully fledged poets. Moreover, in announcing their crossing of the Rubicon and “submitting to the microscopic eye of periodical Criticism” (ibid.), they strategically decide to disavow their youthful influences by means of the classical rhetorical strategy of recusatio. Yet while both Tennyson brothers participate in the normative schoolboy tradition of writing poetry in imitation of classical Greek and Latin poets, Alfred’s imitation also extends into the vogue for sentimental literature, including the gothic, that was popularized in Tennyson’s boyhood in such novels as Ann Radcliffe’s Gothic romances and in gift books, poetry albums, and literary annuals like the Keepsake and the Forget-Me-Not. In so combining his schoolboy training in classical poetry with his reading of popular sentimental and Romantic literature, which were generally considered feminine and commercial, Tennyson forges a distinctive poetic voice and effectively launches himself into the vocation of poetry.

Machine translation of Chinese classical poetry: a comparison among ChatGPT, Google Translate, and DeepL Translator

Recent studies have highlighted ChatGPT’s remarkable capabilities in machine translation. However, little attention has been paid to its application in literary translation, particularly within the realm of Chinese classical poetry. To explore the potential of ChatGPT’s abilities in poetry translation, we conducted a comparative analysis of poetry translation quality, contrasting ChatGPT (with two different prompts) with Google Translate and DeepL Translator regarding fidelity, fluency, language style, and machine translation style. The results revealed that ChatGPT outperformed Google Translate and DeepL Translator in all evaluation criteria, suggesting its exceptional ability in poetry translation. Furthermore, when employing a prompt that instructs ChatGPT to preserve the rhythm and rhyme of poems, ChatGPT demonstrated a remarkable ability to retain the beauty of the original poetic language, setting itself apart from conventional machine translation systems. Our analysis further elucidated ChatGPT’s proficiency in comprehending and translating some common symbols, imagery, and underlined semantic components which contributes to coherent and fluent translations. Our research opens up ChatGPT’s new possibilities in translating ancient literary texts into foreign languages.

The Comparative Study on the English Translations of Du Fu's Poems from the Perspective of Steiner's Hermeneutic Motion

Du Fu's influence in Chinese classical poetry is very far-reaching, and he is honored as the "Sage of Poetry" by later generations, and his poems are also known as the "History of Poetry". As a typical representative of traditional Chinese culture, Du fu's poems are loved by the public, and different translations have made the world better understand the culture of ancient Chinese poems. Based on the hermeneutic motion of George Steiner, this paper selects two English translations of Du Fu's poems by Mr. Xu Yuanchong, a domestic translator, and Mr. Watson, a foreign sinologist as the objects. Through the comparative study of the two translations, this paper explores how the four hermeneutic steps of “trust”, “aggression”, “incorporation” and “compensation” in Steiner’s hermeneutic motion are represented in their translations. It provides a new perspective for the study of Du Fu’s poetry translation into English and promotes the dissemination of ancient Chinese poems.

Appropriating Hafez’s ghazals for Shiite rites and rituals in the Islamic Republic of Iran

ABSTRACT The poetry of the Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988) is commonly grafted to classical Persian topoi, imagery, metaphors. Several war poets use classical poetry to communicate with their audiences as this poetry is familiar and they can effortlessly convey their political and ideological message. This article investigates how modern amateur poets use classical poetry to create their own poems for political and religious use. I shall specifically analyse a few instances in which the poetry of the classical Persian poet Hafez of Shiraz (1315–1390) is integrated in various ideologically Shiite contexts. Some scholars have argued that Hafez’s ghazals have little cohesion, characterizing the poem’s couplets as ‘pearls at random strung’, but as we shall see these ghazals enjoy thematic coherence, even their ambiguity creates spaces for a modern appropriation and interpolation of couplets in his poetry, allowing the use of a poem as a commentary on religious and political events. While I shall give attention to Hafez’s art of poetry, my main focus will be upon the modern application of his poetry by professional Shiite singers (maddāḥs) who perform such poems to whet the emotions of their audiences, placing the poem in a purely Shiite or ideologically Islamist propaganda.

Probe The Practice of Aesthetic Education in the Teaching of Classical Poetry from the Perspective of "Five Education Integration"

Classical poetry teaching is an important teaching content of public courses and elective courses for cultivating humanistic quality of college students. Under the guidance of the concept of "Five-education integration", this paper analyzes the value and significance of the research on the topic, sorts out the research trends of aesthetic education, explains the connotation and development process of the concept of "Five-education integration", and focuses on the implementation strategy of classical poetry teaching to cultivate aesthetic education of college students. It provides practical and reasonable suggestions for teachers to implement aesthetic education classroom teaching. It aims to draw out better views from colleagues and discuss the topic of The Times of college students' aesthetic education together.

Comparison of the English Versions of Poem Lu Zhai

Chinese classical poetry, as a treasure of Chinese culture, has always attracted numerous translators. Translating classical poetry not only requires accurately conveying the artistic conception and expression of the original work, but also requires flexible application of translation techniques to adapt to different language and cultural backgrounds. Poetry translation is a difficult point in the translation of literary works, and poetry is known as “literature in literature”. Its form is brief but its meaning is profound, “words are here and meaning is there, words are full and meaning is infinite”. This article will take the classic Chinese classical poem “Lu Zhai"”as an example, and use the method of literature review to collect and analyze G W. Translated versions by two translators, G.W. Robinson and Xu Yuanchong. Firstly, a comprehensive reading and understanding of the two versions were conducted. Secondly, by comparing the translation styles of the two versions, we compared rhyme, image, sentence as well as arrangement. Through these comparisons, the article draws conclusions about the different stylistic characteristics of the two translators. This study is of great significance in revealing translators’ understanding and expression of classical poetry.

Analysis of Saidis Ghazals Written in Aruz

Abstract: This article is devoted to the analysis of the ghazals of Nizomiddin Zakirov, a writer from Samarkand, who lived in the era of the former Soviet regime and, despite his young age, created in the zsxcz ;;style of traditional Uzbek classical literature.In the 1950s and 1960s of the Shura era, he was engaged in artistic creation along with leadership activities, wrote beautiful poems and ghazals under the pseudonym Saidi. At a time when the study and promotion of national literature and national values were severely suppressed, Saidi, despite being young, deeply studied traditional Uzbek classical poetry and tried to write ghazals like his teachers. In this way, he was greatly influenced by the family environment where he was born and brought up and the work of representatives of the literary environment of Kattakurgan, which has long been considered one of the centers of creativity and enlightenment.In many of his ghazals, he tried to reinterpret traditional metaphors and achieve originality. Saidi’s works are important because they are sources that show the continuation and development of classical genres in Uzbek literature during the years of the Shura period.

Application of JSA, a Sentiment Analysis Model in Chinese Language and Literature, to Sentiment Recognition in Classical Poetry

Abstract Classical poetry embodies the essence of traditional Chinese culture, and its lyricism and infectiousness provide an ideal platform for educating about emotions. However, due to the West’s influence in modern times, the teaching of classical poetry has not expanded to include the emotional aspect. Therefore, this paper establishes the JSA model as the research model for recognizing emotions in classical poetry, based on an analysis of existing methods for recognizing emotions in Chinese literature. Upon scrutinizing the JSA model’s construction, we discovered that it overly relies on the distribution of emotions for theme generation. Consequently, this paper enhances the JSA model by situating the emotion layer between the theme layer and the word layer, builds the reverse JSA model, and employs Bayesian estimation to estimate the model’s parameters. In this paper, we use classical poems as an example to demonstrate how to analyze the sentiment of classical poems by recognizing tone auxiliaries. The improved JSA model’s emotion recognition effect closely aligns with the actual expression effect of the poems, demonstrating the effective application of the advanced JSA model in this paper for emotion recognition of classical poems.

A Corpus-Based Study on Classical Poetry’s Translation of The Governance of China III from Perspective of Translation Ethics

The Governance of China III is a representative book to shape the national image and enhance national self-confidence. Its English translation is a window for foreign readers to understand China. In the process of translation, translation strategies and methods reflect translators’ choice of different ethical models. This paper takes the English translation of classical poetry in The Governance of China III as the main research object, takes Chesterman’s five ethics models as the theoretical basis, builds a corpus to explore the application of five ethical models in the process of translating classical poetry, and hopes to provide some views on the political publicity translation of classical poetry.

China Classical Poetry Art Song Market Trend Forecast and Big Data Analysis in Music Industry

Abstract In view of the fact that Chinese classical poetry and art songs are more and more widely welcomed in people’s entertainment lives, the article conducts research on its market development trend. The PSO-Prophet-LSTM combined prediction model is constructed by combining the Prophet prediction model and the LSTM neural network model and optimizing the combined model with the PSO algorithm. The PSO-Prophet-LSTM model’s prediction performance was tested in this paper and it was used to predict the music industry and the market of Chinese classical poetry and art songs. The PSO-Prophet-LSTM model achieved the best prediction results in terms of the comparison of adaptation, LOSS, and RMSE convergence curves with prediction accuracy. In the prediction of the music industry in the next five years, the total output value of the music industry expanded from RMB 465 billion in 2024 to RMB 986 billion in 2028. The capital preservation rate, the profit tax rate of music output value, and the capital profit rate of the music industry all keep growing over the five years. In the market size prediction of Chinese classical poetry and art songs, the market size of this segment expands with the overall market size of the music industry.

Ancient Chinese Poetry Collation Based on BERT

The rapid advancements in intelligent knowledge management technologies, exemplified by generative large language models, have yet to be fully explored and applied in the field of collation of ancient Chinese poetry. This study investigates the application of BERT-based pre-trained models, namely bert-base-chinese and SikuBERT, in the specialized task of ancient Chinese poetry collation. Focusing on the poetry of Li Bai, we employed a meticulously curated dataset to fine-tune these models, with the objective of enhancing their ability to identify and rectify errors in classical verse. Through a systematic approach to model adaptation, our research aimed to bridge the gap between generic language understanding and the nuanced complexities of ancient poetry.Results indicate that both models, after fine-tuning, exhibit substantial improvement in accurately addressing textual issues in the poetry. Specifically, SikuBERT, with its background in classical Chinese literature, achieved an impressive accuracy rate exceeding 40% post-fine-tuning, reflecting a marked increase from its base performance, thereby validating the significance of domain-specific training data. Meanwhile, bert-base-chinese also displayed notable enhancements, underscoring the models’ adaptability to specialized tasks. The investigation further emphasizes the potential for artificial intelligence to contribute to the precision and efficiency of ancient literature studies. We highlight future directions including refining fine-tuning methodologies, expanding the models’ capability to generalize across diverse poetic styles and periods, and integrating multi-modal data to deepen the understanding of historical context and authorial intent. This work underscores the transformative role of AI in the digital preservation and scholarly analysis of ancient poetry, paving the way for innovative approaches in the field of classical literature collation.

Characteristics of Translation and Research of Chinese Classical Poetry in Russia

The study of Chinese classical poetry in Russia dates back several centuries, it is original, has its own bright, distinctive features, no matter in the period of Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, or contemporary Russia, it always occupies a unique position in the world’s sinology field. In this article, the spread of Chinese classical poetry in Russia is systematically considered from such aspects as the interaction of translators and researchers, translations and works about poets, writers and their works, as well as translation principles and various aspects of research, originality, models of cooperation. This article points out that the study of Chinese classical poetry in Russia attaches great importance to translation, to the exploration of translation principles from the perspectives of rhyme, rhythm, form, paragraphs, tasks, and readers, to the combination of translation, annotation, and research, to the construction of academic terms, and the cooperative mode of poetry translation between Russian sinologists and poets. The paper notes that there are two important goals for Russia and Russian science in translating and researching Chinese classical poetry: firstly, they can serve to enrich national literature and write the history of Russian literature too; secondly, they can be used to introduce Chinese poetry into the context of the development of Russian and world culture. Russian translators and Sinologists-researchers will continue to contribute to the spreading of Chinese poetry and make it a part of world literature.

Feasibility of online self-help mindfulness intervention integrating Chinese classical poetry and its impact on participants’ adherence

Feasibility of online self-help mindfulness intervention integrating Chinese classical poetry and its impact on participants’ adherence

«ЛЕГКО ЛЬ ПОНЯТЬ ЧЕРЕЗ ДЕСЯТКИ ЛЕТ…»: МЕМОРИАЛИЗАЦИЯ ОБРАЗА МАРИИ ПЕТРОВЫХ В ЛИТЕРАТУРНОМ И КУЛЬТУРНОМ ПРОСТРАНСТВЕ ЯРОСЛАВЛЯ

Memorialization as a purposeful activity to preserve, consolidate and transmit cultural and literary traditions, associated with the personality and work of poets and writers, to next generations becomes especially demanded during critical historical periods, which is what happened with Maria Sergeevna Petrovykh at the turn of the millennium. Born in Yaroslavl, who at an early stage of her work became a prominent figure among the poets of the Silver Age, who rethought the traditions of Russian classical poetry, who revealed many bright artistic phenomena of different national cultures to the Russian reader but, unfortunately, little known to the general reading public due to historical circumstances, Maria Petrovykh becomes an iconic personality in the Russian cultural space in the 1990s – 2000s. The article traces an attempt to present the influence of the personality and creativity of M.S. Petrovykh on the literary and cultural environment of her hometown.

Celebrating diversity: The origins and pathways of three support-verb constructions

Support-verb constructions are combinations of a verb and a noun that fill the predicate slot of a sentence, such as to make a suggestion in I made the suggestion that she join us. While qualifying as semantic-lexemic phrasemes (collocations and idioms) in Mel’čuk’s Sens-Texte framework, they sit at the lexicon-syntax interface. They qualify as verbal multi-word expressions lexically speaking and form complex predicates syntactically. In classical and post-classical Greek, support-verb constructions form an internally heterogenous group of constructions, yet one that has existed since the earliest records of the language and survives into the modern variety. The present chapter capitalises on the over 2000 years of continuous written history of Greek, and the internal heterogeneity of the group of support-verb constructions, in that it investigates the origins and pathways of three members of this group in the literary (Thesaurus Linguae Graecae) and documentary (Duke Database of Documentary Papyri) corpora of Greek. The bulk of documentary texts dates from the 3rd c. BC onwards, whereas the earliest literary texts date from around the 8th c. BC. The variety of sources allows us to trace the three structures of interest through the centuries in varying environments and thus to trace traditions and independent developments. δίκην δίδωμι dikēn didōmi existed as a collocation ‘to give judgement(s)’ from archaic times and into the medieval period, in classical times, the idiom δίκην δίδωμι dikēn didōmi ‘to pay the price for one’s actions’ arose and became indexed for the technical and higher registers. In χάριν ἀπολαμβάνω kharin apolambanō ‘to receive a favour’, the prototypical compound ἀπολαμβάνω apolambanō seems to be diatopically and subsequently diastratically indexed but retreats into the higher registers after the classical period; the canonical simplex verb λαμβάνω lambanō predates it in early classical verse and postdates it. προσέχω τὸν νοῦν prosekhō ton noun exists as an idiom especially in medical discourse from at least classical times onwards but in parallel also as a pragmateme from archaic times onwards. Support-verb constructions are a pattern that is considered near universal in languages, such that especially the methodological tool of the support-verb-construction field developed and drawn upon in this chapter is transferable beyond Greek.