Writing poems: a waste of time or a savior of life – an autoethnographic exploration

Sharma, Daneshwar

doi:10.1080/08893675.2020.1776967

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“…The use of poetry in this paper is to capture, signify and illustrate these complexities where appropriate. This approach is now being increasingly used not only in multidisciplinary research (McCulliss, 2013;Prendergast, 2009) but also as a specifically feminist methodology (Faulkner, 2020; and therapeutic auto-ethnographic encounter (Sharma, 2020). These methods proved pivotal in exposing some important nuances and complex mappings, in a dynamic process, allowing the intermeshing of personal experience, sociological theory, an understanding of policy and practice around loneliness in the UK (and specifically and the current political climate (e.g.…”

Section: The Liminality Of Loneliness: Theorising Concepts and Capturing Methodological Innovationsmentioning

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The Liminality of Loneliness: Negotiating Feminist Ethics and Intersectional Affectivity

Christou

Bloor²

2021

Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change

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This paper draws on auto-ethnographic and creative material to disentangle loneliness as including moments of tension but also the potential for personal liberation. The analysis draws on intersectional reflexivity as a joint project building on feminist friendship and activist academic collaboration. Our collaborative critical auto-ethnography sought to reach the co-production of narratives of loneliness while embracing the diversities of our positionalities. Our differing points of departure and arrival were harnessed to understand our experiential perspectives on loneliness. We conceptualise through feminist and intersectional theories the liminalities of a 'biopolitics' of loneliness. We address ethical, affective and performative aspects of how loneliness is understood. We can then advance propositions for alternative analyses that can contribute to feminist studies of loneliness. In the analysis we clarify the often nebulous interconnections of materialisms, affectivities and ethical feminisms to disentangle loneliness from the 'individual experience' to a 'social platform' of wider collective responsibility in tackling some of its traumatic and destructive effects. We explore these issues in the emerging context of the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic that has led to farreaching social, psychological, and physical impacts upon loneliness, in turn augmented by UK state policies.

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The Liminality of Loneliness: Negotiating Feminist Ethics and Intersectional Affectivity

Christou

Bloor²

2021

Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change

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“…(Lerner 1997) explore the concept "Poetry fixes me", where poetry provides healing effects. Research also exists in specific areas, as the application of poetry therapy in elderly care and terminally ill patients (Tegnér et al 2009), where poetry can help enabling the expression of individuals' deepest unspoken concerns within the field of palliative care (Robinson 2004), as well as in other sociocultural contexts (Sharma 2020).…”

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Lexico-semantic and affective modelling of Spanish poetry: A semi-supervised learning approach

Barbado,

González,

Carrera

2021

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Text classification tasks have improved substantially during the last years by the usage of transformers. However, the majority of researches focus on prose texts, with poetry receiving less attention, specially for Spanish language. In this paper, we propose a semi-supervised learning approach for inferring 21 psychological categories evoked by a corpus of 4572 sonnets, along with 10 affective and lexico-semantic multiclass ones. The subset of poems used for training an evaluation includes 270 sonnets. With our approach, we achieve an AUC beyond 0.7 for 76% of the psychological categories, and an AUC over 0.65 for 60% on the multiclass ones. The sonnets are modelled using transformers, through sentence embeddings, along with lexico-semantic and affective features, obtained by using external lexicons. Consequently, we see that this approach provides an AUC increase of up to 0.12, as opposed to using transformers alone.

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Reading and rewriting poetry on life to survive the COVID-19 pandemic

Sharma

2021

Journal of Poetry Therapy

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Writing poems: a waste of time or a savior of life – an autoethnographic exploration

Cited by 6 publications

References 48 publications

The Liminality of Loneliness: Negotiating Feminist Ethics and Intersectional Affectivity

The Liminality of Loneliness: Negotiating Feminist Ethics and Intersectional Affectivity

Lexico-semantic and affective modelling of Spanish poetry: A semi-supervised learning approach

Reading and rewriting poetry on life to survive the COVID-19 pandemic

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