Abstract
Over several decades, with a growing interest in the potential value of arts and literature among qualitative researchers, poetry that bears both aesthetic and literary nature has been broadly engaged in various research processes in many fields such as anthropology, communication, education, sociology, nursing, psychology, and social work. Through an in-depth review of the key scholars and (poet-) researchers who have used and written about the creation, implementation, and evaluation of poetry as a qualitative research method, this paper provides an explicit discussion of how a qualitative light is refracted through a Prism of Poetic Inquiry into the studies of human experience, emotion, voice and identity as well as how poetic inquiry reflexively spreads out into a process of data collection, analysis, and representation in a qualitative research tradition. Furthermore, this paper highlights the epistemological and phenomenological rays for cultural affordances of poetic inquiry in the work of ethnopoetics as a hybrid research method, which serves as a meeting plaza for poets, ethnographers and anthropologists. (Konyang University)
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