There was a silly teacher in Mâcon … Nonsense et écriture créative au service de la polyvalence en master MEEF 1er degré by Christine COLLIERE-WHITESIDE

“…Creative writing workshops based on children’s books such as Julia Donaldson’s Chocolate Mousse for Greedy Goose, on songs and poems, especially limericks, not only allowed those students to practice vocabulary and syntax, but also to work on phonetics.By involving creativity, these activities did not only improve these students’ sound awareness, they arguably helped to reconnect them with the English language, and sometimes to heal their relationship with English and with the difficult process of learning languages. …”
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Beyond “for ever England”: Contemporary British Women’s War Poetry and the First World War Canon by Sofia Permiakova

“…This article argues that while the public discourse on war memory often turned to the idea of a “shared past” between the UK and former colonies, thus “sanitising” the history of colonial violence (as argued by Santanu Das), poems by Yrsa Daley-Ward, Malika Booker, Imtiaz Dharker, and Jenny Lewis written for commemorative anthologies effectively de-colonise the nar- rative(s) of the First World War by opening up the space for new voices and construing the image of England beyond “for ever England” in its relation to other spaces and other wars.…”
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An Investigation of Expressionist Ideas of Contemporary Persian Female Poets by Naser Alizadeh, Fatemeh Manavi

“…This article attempts to briefly describe the characteristics of the Expressionist school and scrutinize the samples of poems by Persian famous female poets including Parvin Etesami, Forough Farrokhzad, Simin Behbehani, Zhaleh Esfahani, and Taherh Saffarzadeh based on this approach.…”
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Motyw nadziei w twórczości Igora Talkowa by Aleksandra Ancerowicz

“… The aim of this paper is to present the literary theme of hope in the works of the Soviet Russian rock poet Igor Talkov (1956–1991). The poet’s poems as well as fragments of texts from the author’s prose serve as examples. …”
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From Poetry to Narration with Mazaher Mosaffa: Taking a look at'The Proceedings' (Noskhe-ye Eghdam) by Hamidreza Tavakkoli

“…Mazaher Mossafa’s poems or continuant couplets  which are collected in ‘The Proceedings’ (Noskhe-ye Eghdam) are noteworthy from different perspectives: the interaction between the poetic side and narrative aspect; the romantic color; story-telling and the transition of memories, especially childhood ones; parading personal experiences and describing the details; climatic coloring and the reflection of the folklore, passing through the most personal agonies to national distress or even the historical injuries of Iran; the role of association in altering atmospheres; weird conversations, from addressing a mountain to addressing a mirror and even to addressing his two year old brother passed away before the birth of the poet but granted his name and memory and birth  certificate to him. …”
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Tălmăcitori în „Graiul Nou” by Carmen Brăgaru

“…Their texts as well as the poems, songs or folklore pieces carefully selected from different areas of the Soviet Bloc needed gifted Romanian translators dedicated to the communist cause. …”
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Culhwch ac Olwen como texto de transición de la materia artúrica by Luciana Cordo Russo

“…On the one hand, Arthur is depicted in a heroic tone, that is, with a set of attributes that tend to characterise him in early Welsh poems, in which he appears as the leader of a band of warriors who fight supernatural creatures. …”
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Irish Bards in Shakespeare's Richard III and As You Like it by Andrew Breeze

“…There is in addition ample material on the (sometimes deadly) effects of satire in medieval and later Ireland, where it is known from chronicles, legal tracts, handbooks of poetry, and various surviving poems. There are in addition comic tales on how bards exploited their power, including an eleventh-century one on King Guaire's Burdensome Company, wherein the poet Senchan rhymes to death certain mice that had spoiled an egg reserved for him. …”
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‘Bang-whang-whang goes the drum’ : Robert Browning ou l’énergie comique de l’homme-orchestre by Yann Tholoniat

“…However, rereading today Browning’s poems through the prism of Freud’s theory of pleasure as a release of tension allows one to show Browning’s comical energy as it irrepressibly surfaces in his dramatic monologues. …”
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HISTORICAL MELODIES IN GALLUS HUSZÁR’S HYMNAL OF 1560 by Ágnes TÖRÖK

“…Some of them were new variations or new melodies for well-known poems but one of them was a newly discovered historical melody. …”
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Editing Some Couplets of Manūchihrī Dāmghānī's Divan by Mahmoud Rahimi, Naser Rahimi, Mahmoud Abedi

“…In order to support the recommended variants, textual evidence will be adduced by utilizing the earliest surviving manuscripts of Manūchihrī’s poems and taking advantage of a number of old sources.…”
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“I felt I’d come home”: Sylvia Plath and France by Julie IRIGARAY

“…Her reading of French literature has been widely overlooked by scholars, despite the fact that a poem like “Pursuit” directly quotes Jean Racine. …”
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Travels, Translations and Limitations: Ambasciatrice Caroline Crane Marsh by Etta Madden

“…Two volumes she translated into English, The Hallig or, the Sheepfold in the Waters: a Tale of Humble Life on the Coast of Schleswig (1856), and The Wolfe of the Knoll, and other Poems (1859), considered alongside her poetry, letters and journals, provide windows to the values of translation as a venue of negotiation and cultural exchange. …”
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Comparative Investigation of Synesthesia in “Sight al-Zand” by AbulʿAla Al-MaʿarriAnd the Poetical Works of Shoorideh-E-Shirazi by Javad Gholamalizadeh, Abdolbaset Arab Yosefabadi, Reza Asghari

“…Analyzing diverse types of Baudelaire synesthesia in the works of two Arabic and Persian blind poets, Abul Ala Al-Maarri (937-1057) and Shoorideh-Shirazi (1857-1927), using a descriptive-analytical method, the present study aims to demonstrate the beauty in blind poets’ poems which results from deep imagination. The results indicate that both poets seek to highlight images related to sight, especially sight-touch sense, in the combination of senses so that they can hide their disability from readers’ views.…”
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Stylistics of Vocative Case Usage in Mathnawi Ma'navi and Daftar-e Haftom by Mohammad Shadrooymanesh, Mahnaz Najafi

“…However, the composer of Daftar-e Haftom failed to achieve much success in this regard, despite his efforts in creating stylistic poems.…”
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Thematic Preoccupations of D. A. Ọbasá and Ṣóbọ̀ Aróbíodù on Religion and Colonialism by Ìyábọ̀dé Baliquis Alága, Luqman Abísọ́lá Kíaríbẹ̀ẹ́

“…Therefore, this essay is a comparative analysis of the two poets’ poems with particular reference to issues relating to religion and colonialism. …”
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Los Angeles, espace augmenté révélé par un genre littéraire : l’anthologie by Charles JOSEPH

“…Los Angeles has been a literary motif since its very creation and the city can be read in novels, autobiographies, journals, poems of chronicles written by authors just passing through, immigrants or natives of a place that rapidly became a culturally emblematic beacon. …”
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…e fon sazos/Que per un gan/Er’hom bautz e ioios ! by Isabel de Riquer

“…The author of two razós (the one corresponding to Si-us quier conseil, bell'amiga Alamanda, BdT 242. 69, and the one of Ges aissi del tot no·m lais, BdT 242. 36, both present only in the chansonnier Sq), created a little love story using the vague allusions found in the mentioned bornelian poems. Among the scholars, this story caused a more than hundred years-long debate regarding the so-called «glove cycle». …”
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Image Creation Methods in Children's Poetry of the 1990s in Iran by Alireza Emami, Narjes Moghimi

“…For this reason, three hundred pieces of poems of age groups A & B and B& C of the Center for the Intellectual Development of Children and Adolescents, published in the 1990s, were selected for the following research. …”
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Rhyme or Reason: Three Patterns of Poetic Interference in the British Crime Novel by Camille Fort-Cantoni

“…In Colin Dexter’s The Way Through The Woods, a detective builds up a poem in order to display its object – a corpse. This interpretation happens to be faulty, yet the poem states the truth insofar as it expresses another murderer’s confession – unknown to his author and the murderer. …”
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