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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
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Part of the allure of becoming a starving poet is to feel more alive, more conscious in the process of writing, and to share that heightened sense of awareness through language. Emily Dickinson and Gerard Manley Hopkins weren't in it for the money.
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Woo-Hoo! I'm starvin'! I'm starvin'!
I appreciate your comment as I agree muchly. Poetry for me is very much about sharing experiences, emotions, events, life. Now that certainly doesn't mean that is what is being measured in the above research but it appears (thought it's hard to tell is such an abbreviated article) that part of the study was some type of evaluation of what the reader was getting from the reading, not just a measurement of neuronal firing.