Poetry evokes a myriad of feelings as readers embark on their journey within a text. This is evident in the immersion of readers when they engage with the text. This is aided by deixis, which constructs parameters of person, time, and space within a speech act and relates it to the context in which it is uttered. In Deictic Shift Theory (DST) terms, invested readers project or shift themselves into a fictional world. Thus, readers experience the plot as if they are companions to fictitious characters. Cognitively, readers shift into the story world and within it, they make sense of the narrative. They also experience containment (In Image schema's terms). This makes DST useful to examine the viewpoint(s) used to tell a narrative. You Fit into Me is a quatrain that requires heavy work from readers in terms of deictic shifts. Margaret Atwood subjects her readers to shock waves; in four lines she depicts four stages in a relationship between a female narrator and her male addressee, starting with lovemaking and ending with impalement. This study aims to explore the persona's feelings and by extension the readers', as they shift their deictic center to be cognitively immersed in the persona's hostile origo. As per DST, this study argues that readers' shift and therefore immersion and involvement in this short poem are increased due to the dense emotional content of the poem.

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Humor is rooted within being human. According to Nash (1985), humor is a fundamental trait of humanity, he goes on to equate it with "the power of speech, the mathematical gift, the gripping thumb, the ability to make tools," humor is a trait of being human (p. 1). Humor is examined in many fields, including psychology and linguistics (Attardo, 1994). This paper uses a cognitive stylistic approach to study humor by observing its building blocks or "narrative worlds" also known as "humorous worlds" (Marszalek, 2013). This study explores the humorous worlds in Norsemen, in which previous knowledge of the Vikings is required to unlock and grasp humor in this series. Norsemen is a Norwegian series that depicts the Vikings in a humorous manner showing them as men and women who are very skilled at raiding and killing but often failing at navigating their emotional and mental wellbeing. This study utilizes the premise that prior knowledge of culture, age, objects, characters, etc. has a great impact on understanding and appreciating humor. This paper argues that humor in Norsemen stems from an incongruity in these Norsemen's lives between pillaging and raiding on the one hand and mitigating issues of mental wellbeing and inclusion on the other. This incongruity tests our usual schema of the Vikings, and it refreshes this schema causing a humorous effect.