Cognitive Poetry: Theoretical Framework for the Application of Cognitive Psychology Techniques to Poetic Text

Abstract

This article presents a theoretical framework for the author’s experimental work in contemporary poetry, which has received the term cognitive poetry. In contrast to cognitive poetics, which applies the principles of cognitive psychology to interpret poetic texts, cognitive poetry applies these principles to produce poetic texts. The theoretical considerations of cognitive poetry are based on the assumption that one of the major purposes of creative work is to elicit an aesthetical reaction in the beholder. The aesthetical reaction to poetic texts could be achieved via their satiation with multiple meanings presented through multiple sensory modalities. Cognitive poetry employs techniques developed in cognitive psychology to explicitly address cognitive processes underlying the construction of multiple conceptual planes. The following techniques are discussed: priming, the Stroop effect, multimodal and multilingual presentations. The applications of these techniques are illustrated with examples of poetic texts produced by the author.

Methodological tools for teaching prospective teachers-philologists to interpret English poetic texts

“…The focus of the new field of knowledge is the combination of language and thinking. Cognitology in general and cognitive poetics, in particular, have developed a methodological apparatus suitable for analyzing poetic speech and interpreting the multidimensional structure of a poetic text and its units due to a new understanding of the nature of linguistic phenomena and the way they are understood by humans [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]. Unfortunately, as the separate discipline cognitive linguistics is not taught in educational institutions being briefly discussed in the course of general linguistics or special courses in linguistics.…”