Qualitative Data Analysis : An Introduction

1. Qualitative Data Analysis : An Introduction Carol Grbich Chapter 10. Poetic Inquiry

2. Poetic Inquiry Definition Poetic inquiry isa form of qualitative research that incorporates poetry as a component of an investigation. It requires the researcher to participate creatively in the reframing of data in order to bring the reader as close as possible to the original researcher/participant experiences.

3. Poetic Inquiry Uses for exploring individual experiences or feelings of : Self Other both. Used in: Autobiography autoethnography narrative inquiry

4. Data sources • researcher response to existing literature or to current social or political events? 2. researcher’s field notes and/or their autoethnographical data? 3. participants’ interview transcripts created separately by the researcher or collaboratively between researcher and participants

5. Process of poetic reframing • During data collection: Read the transcripts Undertake preliminary data analysis to gain information on all aspects of the research question • When all the data is in: Re read the transcripts together with any other data gathered (observations, visual and written documents) Make notes identifying themes.

6. Process of poetic framing. (2) • develop files of the themes • Order and reorder these themes • Transform themes/portraits into the poetic or combined styles that best portray the response to the research question • Read aloud or display to others to gauge the effect

7. Types of poetic form • 1. Haiku - a poem written in three unrhymed lines of 5 7 5 syllables . This form can be repeated. • Narrative poetry – a story portrait with a beginning, middle and an end in any form but usually close to the spoken word; • Cinquain • This is a poem with five lines. • Line 1 has one word (the title). • Line 2 has two words that describe the title. • Line 3 has three words that tell the action. • Line 4 has four words that express the feeling. in need • Line 5 has one word, which recalls the title.

8. Types of poetic form 4. Tanka - a poem of 31 syllables divided into 5 lines of 5-7-5-7-7 syllables 5. Heroic couplet - Two successive lines of rhymed poetry in iambic pentameter 6. Quatrain – a stanza of 4 lines where lines 2 and 4 must rhyme 7. Canzone – a lyrical poem with 5-6 stanzas and a shorter concluding stanza 8. Free/blank verse, - using rhymed/unrhymed lines with no fixed pattern mimicking ordinary speech 9. Prose poetry – combines prose and poetry for emotional effect sometimes with metrical overtones.