Creativity in Interpreting Poetic Metaphor
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What cognitive processes are invoked in understanding the metaphors in a poem, or in any other work of art? Is there any creativity required from the reader? Indeed, as we will show with an example in this paper, some metaphors need creativity on the part of the reader to be interpreted meaningfully. Acknowledging the existence of such metaphor, however, raises a horde of other questions. How is this creativity manifested? What is the role played by the poem (or the work of art) in the interpretation process? What role is played by the intentions of the author? How can such metaphors communicate? How can they be translated? These are some of the issues that we would like to address in this paper.
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