Poetry also seems to affect specific areas of the brain, depending upon the degree of emotion and the complexity of the language and ideas. In a study published in 2013 in Journal of Consciousness Studies, researchers at the UK's University of Exeter had participants lay inside an fMRI scanner...
The principal idea that underlies the following schematic descriptions of the features of the poetry reading is that the contemporary Anglophone poem requires both to be read on the page and to be heard read aloud by the poet, because these poems extend over time and memory to create effects ...