Aristotle's concept of disposition (hexis) — the settled character traits that constitute virtue, acquired through habituation and practice — has influenced poets who treat character as something made through repeated action rather than given by nature; In Wordsworth's "Prelude," the cultivation of poetic disposition — the gradual formation of a sensibility adequate to great poetry — is the explicit subject of the autobiographical poem; A poet writing about teaching or mentorship might reflect philosophically on disposition — the aim of education as the formation of dispositions (curiosity, attentiveness, generosity) rather than the transmission of information; The dispositional theory of belief — the philosophical claim that to believe something is to be disposed to act in certain ways rather than to hold a mental image — has implications for religious and political poetry, where faith and commitment are enacted in behavior rather than merely professed in words; Heidegger's Stimmung (often translated as mood or attunement) is a form of disposition — a way of being attuned to the world that precedes and shapes all conscious experience — and lyric poetry is the art form that most directly captures and communicates dispositional states; Contemporary virtue ethics, with its Aristotelian emphasis on the cultivation of good dispositions, provides a philosophical framework for thinking about the poem as a vehicle for the formation of character — reading certain poems disposes us toward certain ways of perceiving and responding to the world