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.

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牧养中的诗意聆听：聆听人们的诗歌

聆听或阅读诗歌时的聆听可以补充牧养中的叙事方法吗？人们在田园邂逅中讲述的碎片化、开放式、隐喻和情节特征往往更像是诗歌而不是故事。将诗歌分析工具应用于人们所说的内容，可以为这些文本打开新的见解，无论是最初书面的还是口头的。诗歌阅读中的实验性、启发式实践在对诗歌特征以及对实践神学的叙事和诗歌模式的反思中找到了补充。这导致在关注隐喻、片段、框架和重构时神学和诗歌阅读的一致性。