The article offers a way of systematizing verbal means that serve to promote visualization of emotional and intellectual information processed by a poet in the act of creation. A linguistic analysis of poems by the famous German poetesses W. Draesner and K. Schulz shows that the nature of visualization is often inferential. In poetic texts inference suggests active work of emotional and cognitive systems of both the author and the reader. Their intellectual interaction ensures the understanding of the hidden meanings encoded in poetic texts.
cognitive conflict; cognitive dissonance; poetic word; inference
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