Poetry shows recognizable state of
feeling and also thoughts but it is
something very honest which displays
one's hidden deep inside unconsciousness
as well.
And at the same time, as profound
as simple and short, as equivocal
as implied, as clear as vague. It
thus pleasantly embraces the past,
lets tolerate the present and clearly
dreams of the future.
Giving shape to the poetic imagination
lifts up to the senses of unconscious
core of sentiments and critical minds
to lead to the recognition of one's
own. It could bring up
emotional stability using poetic
tools as symbol, metaphor, image and
rhythm for full _expression of inner
feelings.
Symbols connect mental image with
notion, interact physical world with
lingustic world
(Alfred Korzybski,1962), lead the
mental image presented in language
to make some kind of new meaning and
awaken the sentiment. It vitalizes
when _expression gets lethargic, diversifies
the emotional reaction. Metaphors
also take effect in change and expansion
of the meaning and in creating-stirring
the dynamic point and images concede
sensible experience.
Poetry is a spiritual product of
human, W. Wordsworth defines it '
letting show of emotion'. It is gush
of feelings, _expression of emotion,
awakening character and language of
life and language of healing as well.
Poetry ,at the same time stirs up
the automated daily sense to let us
newly and deeply recognize the object
or the meaning of relationship. Poetry
acquires and recognize the attention
in the unusually-centered world of
consciousness, a form of building
words to let us know the truthful
and priceless. It comes from the effectiveness
of finding hidden truth or true colors
then of doing the viewables of as
being realized.
Consequently , in the process of
poetry therapy engrafted poetry into
psychology, by interacting through
poetry, as keeping up therapeutic
relation between healer and interviewee,
it is to improve emotional intelligence
of the interviewee and to anticipate
healthy ego recovery.
Compared to this commonly-played
key role of emotional experience that
the literature, poetry text to the
mankind down the ages, domestic view
of literature has been partial to
either the literary perfection or
ethical, instructive poetic learning
to successfully pass the university
entrance examination. That of Korea's
particularly may make children, adolescent
period recede from the poetic experience
and the essence of poetry and its
effective function.
The poems discussed in poetry therapy
are however extended from the ones
that korean society's recognized as
the viewpoint of poetry which require
a change of paradigm. That is to say,
the individual interviewee's emotional
experience does bear consideration
rather than the literary aspiration
and perfection.
The interviewee's experience and
response should be appreciated and
taken as stimulus-accelerator ; the
interpretation of psychological changes
in accordance with how the emotional
feeling picked up and how the reaction
goes is of greater value.
When in poem and poetic writing,
how the interviewee composes in the
literary perfection is less important
than how the subjective individual
unconsciousness and inner depth responded
gets more credit and then the way
how the emotional changes revealed
is of much account in therapeutic
significance. Poems which anyone can
easily approach are the instrumental
media for poetry therapy.
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