How a poem organizes knowledge, understanding, and ways of knowing, structuring readers' epistemological journey through the work. This framework considers what can be known, how we know it, and how certainty or uncertainty develops through the poem's progression. Wallace Stevens's "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" uses epistemological structure to present multiple modes of perception and knowing. The structure might privilege empirical observation, intuitive insight, rational deduction, or some combination. Particularly important in philosophical poetry where questions of knowledge and perception are central themes.

How a poem organizes knowledge, understanding, and ways of knowing. Related to cognitive paradigm but specifically about epistemology. Considers what can be known and how we know it. Stevens's "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" uses epistemological structure, presenting multiple ways of perceiving.