Poetry is the most complex and intricate of human language used
across all languages and cultures. Its relation to the worlds of
human experience has perplexed writers and readers for centuries,
as has the question of evaluation and judgment: what makes a poem
"work" and endure. The Poem as Icon focuses on the art of poetry to
explore its nature and function: not interpretation but experience;
not what poetry means but what it does. Using both historic and
contemporary approaches of embodied cognition from various
disciplines, Margaret Freeman argues that a poem's success lies in
its ability to become an icon of the felt "being" of reality.
Freeman explains how the features of semblance, metaphor, schema,
and affect work to make a poem an icon, with detailed examples from
various poets. By analyzing the ways poetry provides insights into
the workings of human cognition, Freeman claims that taste, beauty,
and pleasure in the arts are simply products of the aesthetic
faculty, and not the aesthetic faculty itself. The aesthetic
faculty, she argues, should be understood as the science of human
perception, and therefore constitutive of the cognitive processes
of attention, imagination, memory, discrimination, expertise, and
judgment.
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