Emotions in Populist Poetry: Sentiment Analysis of Selected English and Arabic Poems
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The study examines the emotional dimensions of populist poetry in English and Arabic through sentiment analysis and stylistic techniques. It explores the distribution of various emotions within these poetic traditions, investigating how linguistic, cultural, and socio-political factors affect emotional appeal. Through a corpus of selected populist poems, the study employs Natural Language Processing (NLP), Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC), and SPSS-based statistical methods to analyze emotion frequencies in the selected poems. The results highlight significant differences between the two languages. English populist poems show higher diversity in emotions, including Annoyance, Awe/Sublime, and Beauty/Joy, while Arabic poems predominantly prefer Sadness and Uneasiness with a narrower range of emotions. The study also contributes to stylistics and comparative poetics by revealing distinct emotional disparity within the populist discourse.
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