Cognitive Poetics

• Reasons for interpretation

• Constrained creative freedom – applied correctly
• Dictionary [not Humpty Dumpty with words]
• Context
• Sound meaning combos
• [village drown in moanful calls] – the reasons for a reading vs. the right
interpretation

• Mechanisms
• Abstraction of the concrete
• Deixis and space
• Topicalized predicates
• Climbing down the sensory hierarchy
• Texturing/enjambment

• Attending the precategorial

• ToT/ Stroop/ themed misremembering/ phonetic v musicality / (unresolved)
ambiguity [windhover] / sound in meaning [beyond just alliteration,
assonance, and rhyme] / figure-ground [and relativism] / Gestalt boundary
effects