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Enhancement of Policy through Key Poetic Insights: Poetry-making and Policy-making (Part F)

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Part F of Poetry-making and Policy-making: Arranging a Marriage between Beauty and the Beast (1993)

Enhancement of Policy through Key Poetic Insights
1. Poetic language
2. Multiple meanings
3. Hidden effects of syntax
4. Perspective-orientation and context creation
5. Metaphor and enhanced perspective
6. Liberating images and comprehension
7. Evoking imaginative involvement
8. Handling complexities beyond ordinary language
9. Handling contradictions
10. Modelling patterns of relationship
11. Suggestive associations
12. Higher forms of order
13. Avoidance of polarization into excess detail or over-generalization
14. Meter and rhythm
15. From explication to motivation
16. Interlocking lines of significance
17. Creative confrontation of differences
18. Integrative comprehension
19. Challenging paradigms
20. Working with polarizations and irrationality
21. Poetic discourse as a metaphor of future policy- making

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Summary

As noted earlier, the term poesis signifies ordering or organization. This is a concern shared by poetry and policy- making. What then are the insights and learnings to be obtained from poetics and poetry composition that might enhance the quality of policy-making? In part this exploration involves a recognition of what poetry seeks to accomplish with language -- since policies have to be articulated through language. In this connection it is worth noting that one director of a school of management summarized his task as "only teaching a new language".

Consider the following comments by Winifred Nowottny (1962) in The Language that Poets Use:

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