 Rosenblatt, however, was never just interested in formalism or "beauty" in any rarified sense.She was more concerned with the nuts and bolts of language cognition, citing people like Elizabeth Bates and Ragnar Rommetveit, which led her to emphasize the role of the "interpretant" in mediating between signified and signifier, or between sign and referent (Peirce's triadic model).The individual reader therefore has to draw upon personal experiences in order to infuse aesthetic significance to a word and by extension, a set of words, such as in a poem.