why do we enjoy poetry From the perspective of neuroscience?

[bennyboy]

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This part seems more questionable, because a good poem alludes to a lot of different things, and affects different people differently. 

In the Baudelaire I quoted earlier, there are a lot of variables. What if the reader's French isn't very good? What if he isn't familiar with melancholy as a traditional concept? What if he doesn't know who Sisyphus is? What if he doesn't get the allusion to Gray? The brain activations would be very different. 

What if you had to learn the poem in high school, and it had happy memories for you? What if it was your ex-girlfriend's favorite poem and whenever you hear it you want to kill somebody? 

Yeah, it's harder. Let's say that all listeners are approached with the same performance of a poem. Some will enjoy it, and some will be annoyed by the voice which they find too nasal, too whiny or whatever.

Nevertheless, over massive enough samples, like if the entire human species is connected to the Matrix, I believe a strong system could probably not only know what poem it is based on certain metric or audio responses, but even say something about what kind of person is listening to the poem-- in what way they like or dislike it, and why.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20...085237.htm

This is about music, and I think poems would probably be harder but a reasonably similar process.