This book has three distinctive characteristics 1 It offers a widely interdisciplinary perspective 2 It provides a comprehensive view of poetry with groups of chapters on the Sound Stratum of Poetry rhyme patterns and gestalt theory metre and rhythm expressiveness and musicality of speech sounds the UnitsofMeaning Stratum semantic representation and information processing metaphor rhyme and meaning literary synaesthesia the World Stratum Regulative Concepts genre period style archetypal patterns the Poetry of Orientation and Disorientation experiential and mystic poetry versus poetry of emotional disorientation and the grotesque the Poetry of Altered States of Consciousness hypnotic and ecstatic poetry Critics and Criticism and Cognitive Poetics vs. Cognitive Linguistics 3 It goes into minute details of poetic texts so as to account for subtle intuitions of readers.