PT Journal AU Lamarque, P TI Semantic Finegrainedness and Poetic Value SO POEMA 2.2024 SE POEMA: Jahrbuch für Lyrikforschung / Annual for the Study of Lyric Poetry / La recherche annuelle en poésie lyrique PY 2024 BP 39 EP 55 IS 2 PU Universitätsverlag Kiel | Kiel University Publishing DI 10.38072/2751-9821/p12 WP https://macau.uni-kiel.de/receive/macau_mods_00004295 LA en DE practice; convention; (poetic) value; form; content; paraphrase; experience; Praxis; Konvention; (poetischer) Wert; Inhalt; Erfahrung; Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft; Komparatistik; Lyrik; Lyrikologie; Lyriktheorie; general literature; comparative literature; poetry; lyricology; lyric theory; littérature générale; littérature comparée; poésie; lyricologie; théorie de la poésie lyrique SN 978-3-910591-20-2 SN 2751-9821 AB This paper – first published with Oxford University Press in 2015 – argues that poetry is constituted by a practice, which is grounded in convention-governed expectations among poets and readers. To write a poem is to engage the practice and invite (one hopes also reward) certain kinds of interests and responses among readers; to read a poem ›poetically‹, seeking its poetic value, is to deploy the relevant interests and responses thereby making appropriate demands and one hopes achieving the valued experience on offer. It is part of the poetry game that in poetry we attend to the finegrainedness of language, its textures and intricacies, its opacity, in conveying thought processes, and we find value in the experience that affords, in precedence over the more humdrum norms of communication, such as transparency, the imparting of information, and the assumption of paraphrasability. PI Kiel ER