The more a poem evokes vivid sensory imagery, the more we like it. A new study by New York University and the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics shows that vivid pictorial language has ...

A poem can lift the spirits ... It recreates the voyage through a flurry of sensory details, embedded in strikingly stylized language. Those features — the imagery and the sound; what your ...

has led to the conclusion several factors including vivid mental imagery render ... uniformly agree which poem they found more appealing thus reinforcing that people have different tastes.