From Cosmic Connections: Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment by Charles Taylor, loc 1313:
We can see this if we think of cases of self-correction, such as, for instance, when I come to see that my anger at your action was not really indignation—that is, morally motivated—but that what really disturbed me was that it made me and my inaction in that situation look bad. In such cases, my feelings re-gestalt, or perhaps become conflicted where they weren’t before. Moreover, in my immaturity, I may not even have realized that we are capable of this kind of self-deception. Seeing my response under the new description allows me to experience it in a new way. I may previously have had some inkling of this at the edge of consciousness, but applying the description allows the experience of appalled self-correction its full force.
This is closely connected to the capacity of language to serve as a site of epiphany. From loc 772:
As I mentioned earlier, there are uses / forms of language which can serve to objectify and also on occasion manipulate the things around us. But this is the dead, uncreative side of language. Then there are the forms which are the sites of epiphanies. These constitute language as living, revivifying. Epiphanies in this sense don’t just add to our knowledge, they inspire us; catching a glimpse of these connections powerfully moves us; the current between us and Nature flows once more.
I'm listening to every little whisper in the distance singing hymns
And I can
I can feel things
Changing
Mark Carrigan 