Open AccessReading Between the Lines
Author(s) -
Matthew J Coombes
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the journal of learning and teaching in higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2517-7575
DOI - 10.29311/jlthe.v1i1.852
Subject(s) - poetry , dyslexia , reading (process) , normative , consciousness , focus (optics) , aesthetics , psychology , linguistics , cognitive science , sociology , cognitive psychology , epistemology , art , philosophy , physics , neuroscience , optics
The non-normative structural possibilities of poetry, with its focus on emotion, imagery and sound, makes it a useful way to portray inner experiences that are difficult to express through traditionally descriptive, more prosaic language. As a lecturer, artistic designer and researcher with dyslexia I have often had to use alternative paths to succeed professionally. Both professionally and privately I share arising complexities of my inner intellectual and felt life through poetry. This is a flow of consciousness about my dyslexia.