Poetic Listening in Pastoral Care: Listening to the Poems that People Are
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Martin Walton
Abstract
Can listening as one listens to or reads poetry complement narrative approaches in pastoral care? The fragmented, open ended, metaphorical and episodic character of what people tell in pastoral encounters is often more like poetry than story. Applying instruments of poetic analysis to what people tell, opens new insights into those texts, whether originally written or oral. That experimental, heuristic practice in poetic reading finds a complement in reflections on characteristics of poetry and on narrative and poetic modes of practical theology. That results in a congeniality of theological and poetic reading in attention to metaphor, fragments, framing and reframing.
Zusammenfassung
In der Interpretation von Seelsorgegesprächen sind narrative Zugänge die Regel, aber das, was in der Seelsorge gesagt wird, erinnert oft mehr an Poesie als an Erzählungen. Der vorliegende Aufsatz schlägt das an die Gedichtinterpretation angelehnte Verfahren des „poetic listening“ als eine Ergänzung zu narrativen Ansätzen vor, um dem fragmentarischen, offenen Wesen der Seelsorgegespräche und ihrem Metaphernreichtum gerecht zu werden.
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