While developing empathy, an individual goes through stages such as acting, meaning, imagination, perspective-taking and feeling.
You can add traffic noises or speaking to give different atmospheres, etc. Really the sky (meaning your imagination) is the limit here.
As a result, the audience has to stir its imagination in order to read meaning into cryptic images.
In The Rule of Metaphor, Ricoeur argues that is because there is a linguistic productive imagination that generates and regenerates meaning through the power of metaphoricity to state things in new ways.
As the great spiritual writer C.S. Lewis argued, "reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
Metaphors are linguistic devices that "convene new meanings by fitting them into imagination-stimulating meaning", and do so by breaking "through old labels, creating a hope for change, for something new" [ 24].
Others sparked the imagination, like "south ship north horse," meaning to travel far and wide.
Similarly, in the title essay, a blast against the media, Saunders proposes that "our venture in Iraq was a literary failure," meaning a failure of the imagination.
It flattens our imagination, thereby also deadening our experience of connection and meaning.
The park would be unveiled just as the flood of new books and films would end, meaning Harry Potter might be fading from public imagination just in time for the grand opening.
