Poetry during the early to mid-1970s shifted toward viewing poetry as a live, context-dependent act in which performance shapes meaning. Researchers embraced methods from folklore studies, sociolinguistics, and poetics to analyze how genres, acts, and social setting render a text into an event, moving beyond a purely textual focus. A practice-oriented trend emerged in pedagogy, promoting free writing, revision, and writer-driven exploration over prescriptive editing. Historical Significance: The period produced a paradigmatic shift that reframed how poets think about voice, influence, and audience reception. The integration of linguistic structures with literary theory provided a durable toolkit for analyzing how form and code govern meaning, influencing subsequent scholarly and creative approaches. By foregrounding the dynamic relationship between poet, text, and reader, these ideas helped expand the scope of poetics beyond print into performance, workshop, and critical discourse.