Chapter 6. On readers’ engagements with poetry

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Chapter 6
On readers’ engagements with poetry

Published online: 27 June 2022

Article outline

6.1Data analysis and coding
6.2Overall results
6.3Individual poems and interpretation patterns
- 6.3.1Analyses of participants’ responses to Frank Beck’s “The Copper Husk Allegory”
- 6.3.2Analyses of participants’ responses to Jason David Peterson’s “How we got here”
- 6.3.3Analyses of participants’ responses to Rae Armantrout’s “Difficulty”
- 6.3.4Analyses of participants’ responses to Robert Pinsky’s “Hearts”
- 6.3.5Analyses of participants’ responses to Shirley Lim’s “Night Vision”
- 6.3.6Analyses of participants’ responses to James Arthur’s “Wind”
6.4Focus on conceptual metaphors
- 6.4.1Conceptual metaphors in meaning interpretations of poems
  - 6.4.1.1Literal meaning interpretations
  - 6.4.1.2Metaphorical meaning interpretations
- 6.4.2How participants talk about their emotional engagements with the poems
  - Responses to meaning and emotional reaction questions shaped by same CMs
  - Responses to meaning and emotional reaction questions shaped by different CMs
- 6.4.3How participants talk about authorial intention
6.5Allegorical readings as examples of the complexities involved in poetry interpretation