Poetics Of Imagination -

Thus, the poetics of imagination is the discipline of becoming aware of the hidden metaphors that govern our lives. When a culture’s dominant metaphor for the mind is a "computer," it imagines memory as storage and thought as processing. When a culture’s metaphor is a "garden," it imagines patience, seasons, and organic growth. To change a society’s operative metaphors is to perform an act of political and spiritual imagination of the highest order.

: A critical function of poetic imagination is its ability to foster empathy, allowing a reader or thinker to "imagine oneself in the other person's skin". Practical and Intellectual Utility poetics of imagination