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The relation between poetry and cognition has seldom been discussed theoretically due to the assumption that poetry has more to do with emotion than with cognition. The following article attempts to survey this field. It distinguishes between three types of cognition in poetry referring mostly to European and American poems of the 20th century: cognition that is caused by poems, cognition that is imparted in poems, and cognition that is formed in poems.
During the 1960s and 1970s the poetic reception of Karl Marx begins to increase in Germany. In this regard, it can be observed that Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s poetic and essayistic reception of Marx is not only quite complex, but also unorthodox. By focusing on the anthology „Gespräche mit Marx und Engels,“ edited by Enzensberger, his comedy „Der Untergang der Titanic“ and his poem „Karl Heinrich Marx,“ the diverse forms of reference to this philosopher are analyzed. It can be demonstrated that Enzensberger uses the montage technique masterly to avoid one-dimensional confessions.
