Dan Lukiv

Detonation, Connotative Value, and Evocative Power in Poetry: Includes Memories [of UBC], poetry Dan Lukiv

An excerpt // Evocative works encourage readers to visualize real or vicarious memories or images from the past, present or future, especially given a thematic foundation. The connotations of words in a poem or fiction naturally work together to help readers visualize those memories or images. In the light of a work's theme or themes, evocative power, then, logically can stand, at least partially, as a function of connotative value in a linear or perhaps exponential relationship. In simpler language, increased connotative value pumps up evocative power.