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Poetry of the past and contemporary poetry still has relevance today for at least two reasons. The first is that truths, either universal or personal, are expressed in poetry, and the world always needs to read truths expressed in the special language formulations that comprise poetry. The second is that formulating poetry requires specific mental skills--skills in compressing complex thoughts, employing comparisons and other poetic devices, using rhetorical techniques--that can only add to the expansion of the cognitive perceptions of both the reader and the writer, expanded perceptions that can then (one hopes) be applied to one's view of the world at large.

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