Ok, now it's starting to come together for me. Ken what you're saying
here fits in with another thought that came to me the other day. Here
goes: if I think "poetry" consists of what I find on a birthday card:
I hope you enjoy your birthday,
All the pleasures it has in store,
And because I appreciate you,
I hope you have many more!
Then the benediction by Rev. Joseph Lowery ("...when yellow will be
mellow ... when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will
embrace what is right. ..") - which by the way was received very
positively - and indeed your limerick, would easily be assimilated as
"poetry". However, Ms. Alexander's poem was just too different for
many people to be able to assimilate. So, one would need to
accommodate one's schema of "poetry" (assuming, as Gary pointed out in
a previous post, that a person saw this issue as an "an environmental
challenge" that needed resolving). Agreed?
Michael
Michael Britt
[email protected]
www.thepsychfiles.com
On Jan 29, 2009, at 11:51 AM, Ken Steele wrote:
>
> One example could be Jabberwocky...
>
> 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
> Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
> All mimsy were the borogoves,
> And the mome raths outgrabe.
>
> The words are nonsense but it sounds meaningful because it fits our
> schema of what a poem should sound like.
>
> Ken
>
> Michael Britt wrote:
>> Ok. I'll buy that. So, can you give an example of how
>> assimilation would occur in this context?
>> Michael
>> Michael Britt
>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>> www.thepsychfiles.com <http://www.thepsychfiles.com>
>> On Jan 28, 2009, at 8:02 PM, [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]
>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Any time you modify a schema to take in new information, that is
>>> accomodation.
>>> In a message dated 1/28/2009 1:08:57 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>>> [email protected]
>>> <mailto:[email protected]> writes:
>>>
>>> So the first question is: Is adding into your schema of
>>> "poetry" that "poetry is words that evoke images" an
>>> example of assimilation or accommodation? I'm thinking
>>> assimilation.
>>>
>>>
>
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