I’m not quite sure when it all began to take root, but it certainly deepened the more that I knuckled under to Vergil’s famous verbal economy, as elliptical nouns, suspended verbs, and an interlocked word-order replaced ordinary logic with a complex multi-leveled reality.Īn example occurs early in the Aeneid. poet? Meh.” But day-by-day, week after week, this home-room poet taught us how to find the unsuspected toads in Vergil’s hexameters. Our teacher was a recently published poet, praised by the celebrated Marianne Moore-she who thought that good poems embody “imaginary gardens with real toads in them.” Just say that to thirty or so teen-agers who spoke like Bernie Sanders and here’s what you’d get: “He’s a. Senior-year Latin called for a reading of Vergil’s Aeneid in Latin. Still, it was through the ancient languages, and especially Latin, that my education in poetry began. My next-door neighbors were German-Americans and it would be fun to pitch ein paar Worte over the back-yard fence. German-the modern language assigned to me by those who thought that I’d become a scientist and would enjoy poring through archives of Teutonic research-seemed less of a problem than Latin or Greek. Harnessed to an Honors track that added three grueling years of ancient Greek to the mix, I cursed my fate. The theory was that you couldn’t possibly master and communicate anything worthwhile unless you understood how language works, and the best way to do that was through foreign language study. It was a commuter “prep” school that emphasized-as such institutions did at the time-language instruction: four years of classical Latin and three years of a modern language. For the moment, let’s start with that school. This story registers a pivotal moment during my senior year as a high school student in Brooklyn N.Y., but it also has a component that relates to Cornell. There are also language specific tools, such as a declension generator in Latin, that might be useful for helping check declensions and conjugations, or display particular person/tense combinations for a particular word."Far-Flung Poems and Front-Page Headlines" The natural language processing tools in the package make it easy to search texts, as well as analyse them in some languages. I assume it is based on nltk.Ī selection of tutorial notebooks can be found at cltk/tutorials.Ĭltk provides access to a variety of classical texts in a variety of languages, and as such provides a way for learners to access such texts themselves, if we can find a way of accessing a reliable index to them, or search through metadata provided for them. Cltk, the * Classical Language Toolkit*, is a natural language processing (NLP) package designed for use with the languages of Ancient, Classical, and Medieval Eurasia (esp.
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