Sean Pue | Visualizing Poetic Meter in South Asian Languages
Channel: MSU Digital Humanities
Date: 2020-04-24

A. Sean Pue, Ahmad Atta, and Rajiv Ranjan | Michigan State University and Govt. Zamindar Post Graduate College, India


Presentation description:
The explication of poetic meter in the modern languages of South Asia is a source of consternation even for experienced poets. Poets competent in established meters have difficult articulating them, and less familiar readers or listeners have difficulty learning them. The trouble is that the traditional prosodic systems do not align well with the phonological features of modern South Asian languages. Modern scholars have offered alternative ways to think of meter. We augment that work by presenting an interactive web-based software package under development to visualize poetic meter using directed graphs that accommodate multiple languages and scripts to make accessible poetic knowledge for readers, scholars, and poets.

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