My Poetry teacher once said that, “[t]he ultimate purpose of language is to mimic the human experience with all it’s complexities,” (Pulan 2012). For that, we have poetry. What it does is provide an objective description of situations, instead of subjective ones (“Show, don’t tell”), which is why poets utilize he figures of speech to give concrete images in our head to follow and re-create the experience, and hopefully the emotions.
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