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The aim of this inquiry has been to establish a relationship between poetry and the symbolic mandala. The hypothesis which led to the research may be stated this way: Poetry, by its very nature, seeks to express in words the poet's intuitive sense of an all-embracing unity under…

This study includes four sections: (1) an introduction to the literary, historical, and autobiographical aspects of Lope de Vega's narrative poem La hermosura de Angélica, written between 1588 and 1602, when it was published for the first time; (2) an edition of the text based o…

I am settling into a sincere appreciation of the unassuming power of dust. It is the essence of life from which all beings are created. There is a certain persistence in dust's ability to drift and dance defying stillness, until it eventually settles and clings to things more st…

“Would you have me bow my head before mighty prices, forgetting all the joy of my heart?” Not long after Li Bai (Chinese: 李白, pinyin: Lǐbái, 701–762) left the imperial court, he wrote so at the end of one of his masterpiece, A Visit to the Sky-mother Mountain in a Dream. As he a…

This study - in the theoretical aspect that was included in the first chapter - is based on exploring the means of constructing the text, which are the seven textual criteria that the American linguist Robert de Beugrand compiled in his textual theory, (cohesion, coherence, inte…