Article outline

• 6.1Data analysis and coding
• 6.2Overall results
• 6.3Individual poems and interpretation patterns
  • 6.3.1Analyses of participants’ responses to Frank Beck’s “The Copper Husk Allegory”
  • 6.3.2Analyses of participants’ responses to Jason David Peterson’s “How we got here”
  • 6.3.3Analyses of participants’ responses to Rae Armantrout’s “Difficulty”
  • 6.3.4Analyses of participants’ responses to Robert Pinsky’s “Hearts”
  • 6.3.5Analyses of participants’ responses to Shirley Lim’s “Night Vision”
  • 6.3.6Analyses of participants’ responses to James Arthur’s “Wind”
• 6.4Focus on conceptual metaphors
  • 6.4.1Conceptual metaphors in meaning interpretations of poems
    • 6.4.1.1Literal meaning interpretations
    • 6.4.1.2Metaphorical meaning interpretations
  • 6.4.2How participants talk about their emotional engagements with the poems
    • Responses to meaning and emotional reaction questions shaped by same CMs
    • Responses to meaning and emotional reaction questions shaped by different CMs
  • 6.4.3How participants talk about authorial intention
• 6.5Allegorical readings as examples of the complexities involved in poetry interpretation