POETRY AND HUMAN EMOTIONS (LITERARY AND THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF EMOTIONAL UNIVERSALITY)

Abstract

Poetry and human feelings

Poetry has ling been recognized as perhaps the most potent literary medium for eliciting profound psychological and emotional responses .  But literary theory shows that poetry not only expresses emotions, but also actively creates, interprets, and distributes emotional experiences. This article examines the relationship between poetry and human emotions through theoretical and literary foundations, including classical aesthetics, romanticism, structuralism, hermeneutics, and modern cognitive literary research. Based on Aristotle's concept of catharsis, romantic theories of emotional memory, Jacobson's linguistic model, Ricourt's theory of metaphors, and the latest cognitive methods of influence, research claims that poetry transforms subjective emotional states into a common cognitive and ethical meaning. Rather than treating emotions as irrational or personal, poetry organizes the impact through formal, symbolic, and interpretive mechanisms.By integrating rigorous literary theory with interdisciplinary emotional research this analyze establishes poetry as a visual instrument for emotional cognition it demonstrates that verse services as a universal cognitive bridge functioning consistently across diverse cultural landscapes and various historical epochs