Poetry really is a beautiful thing , it stirs the minds of the readers and makes them think in ways they would have never thought before. Even short poems like most of the ones in Shel Silverstein's collection of poetry books sometimes raise tears, but why does poetry affect us like this?
According to Elise Curtin in her article "Poetry shown to have a music-like effect on the brain", a string of words in a certain tempo stimulates an emotional response from the body, which effects the brain by putting it in a minor trance.
I also believe that poetry reaches the brain in an intellectual manner by exercising the minds responsiveness and stimulating deep thought, which will increase the reader's ability to make choices better in the future and have a stronger opinion about what they believe is right.
So in conclusion, poetry improves the mind and the body and, if you really believe in poetry, the spirit. I hope you take my theory to heart and think about this, how does poetry effect you?
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