What Does the Poet Mean ?: Poetic Competence within the Framework of Cognitive Poetics
ŞAİR BURADA NE DEMEK İSTİYOR?: BİLİŞSEL ŞİİRBİLİM ÇERÇEVESİNDE ŞİİRSEL YETERLİLİK
Abstract
In Cognitive Poetics studies, emerging as one of the reflections of the joint studies conducted by Cognitive Linguistics and Cognitive Psychology, literary texts have been analyzed form a cognitive perspective. As the pioneer of the field, Tsur (2002) argues that since poems are the literary texts having emotions, they must be analyzed on the basis of readers’ mental, cognitive and emotional responses and they can be considered as “competent” in view of the rate of correspondance of the poet’s and the readers’ interpretations. Based on the concept which is called as “poetic competence”, this study aims to detect i) whether the poetic structures are competent to convey the emotions and meanings to the reader and ii) to what extent do the poet’s interpretations correspond to the readers’. In this way, it is aimed to test the validity of the concept. In accordance with this aim, the poem named “Eve Gidip Uyuyacağım” has been chosen as the database with random method from 3081 poems in 52 poetry books published between 2009-2019.By means of Idealized cognitive models, poerty-based interpretations from the readers with the same/similar characteristics as the poet are reached within the framework of the scale units offered by Hall ve Van De Castle; these interpretations are compared with the interpretations of the poet and the results obtained in condition of partial and complete correspondence have been discussed. Accordingly, the concept “poetic competence” stated by Tsur, which refers being competent in conveying the emotions and meanings to the reader, is valid in view of partial evaluation (f=%66.3-P=0.66) whereas it is not in a condition of complete evaluation (f=25.3-P=0.25). Thus, the result shows that the validity of the concept in question may vary according to the way of evaluation of the data obtained from the readers.
Keywords
Cognitive poetics, poetic competence, the Hall & Van De Castle Scale, idealized cognitive models
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