Analysis of What Cognitive Dissonance Is
A human illness.
That needs to be remedied.
Soul out of balance.
Imbalance in the psyche.
It’s cognitive dissonance.
| Scheme | ABCDC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Cinquain (40%) Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 01010 1111100 11110 0100010 1100100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 118 |
| Words | 23 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
About this poem
Frantz Omar Fanon (1925-1961), a French West Indian physician, psychiatrist, and political philosopher from the French colony of Martinique (today, a Department of France), and a radical Marxist scholar and supporter of Pan-Africanism, is known for having popularized the term “cognitive dissonance” and introducing it more widely into the public domain, a social psychological phenomenon that was conceptualized by Leon Festinger (1919-1989), one of the most well-cited psychologists in modern history. To varying degrees and in various circumstances, all of humanity experiences and displays elements of cognitive dissonance. more »
Written on April 18, 2022
Submitted by karlcfolkes on April 18, 2022
Modified on March 23, 2023
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