A SAVANT POET

Poems by an individual with a diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome were an alysed and compared with those of a comparison poet. Though the savant poet performed less efficiently on formal language tests supposed to tap creativity, there were few differences between the two poets in re gard to the poems' content and the use of various structural devices. The poems by the savant referred more often to aspects of self-analysi s, while descriptions of people not related to the self were less freq uent. Both poets made use of similes and metaphors. The results are di scussed in terms of different modular domains within the language syst em.