University of Melbourne provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. What are we to make of these lines where one thing bursts out of another? There are images here half inserted ...

New Delhi: A research conducted to find answers for the ever elusive question "Why do we like what we like?" has led to the conclusion several factors including vivid mental imagery render poetry more ...

Contrary to what English teachers led us to believe, most readers don’t judge poetry based on factors like alliteration and rhyme. In fact, a new study published in the journal Psychology of ...

Poetry that evokes vivid mental imagery is more aesthetically pleasing to readers, say scientists who have found several factors that make people like poems. Aesthetics, the underpinnings of what we ...