Poetry and the Ordinary Reader: A Study of Immediate Responses

Robert de Beaugrande

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Within the total picture of literary communication, the reader has usually been an expert, mainly the literary critic. This article explores the immediate responses reported by a group of ordinary readers after reading a contemporary poem by Richard Eberhart. These responses are classified according to typical operations: staging, hedging, citing, associating with key words, paraphrasing, normalizing and generalizing. Examples of each type are discussed.

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