When we learn to read poems, we acquire a pleasure and a resource we never loose. Poetry records and embodies centuries of human thought and emotion, preserving for us the minds of people who lived before us, who were like and unlike us, against whom we can measure our common humanity and our historical difference. Poetry has changed tremendously since the 19th century however, when we read our contempories, I feel that they illuminate a …
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…To explore the wisdom and symbolic message of poetry has become an exciting journey for me. The relevance of poetry is undeniable. In my opinion poetry is immortal. It is one of the most flexible and fluent ways of expressing human emotion and clearly helps us understand the reality of our lives. It alters and enlarges our minds, our connections with each other, past and present, and our understanding of our own feelings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**