ELTWeekly Vol. 4 Issue#1 | January 2, 2012 | ISSN 0975-3036

Beauty, as it is often said, cannot be bound by words. But the fact of the truth remains that beauty can easily be encaptured in words, hats off to the poets and their immortal poetry. We mortals, since time immemorial have been witness to what it has done till date and, moreover, what it shall continue to do by playing with words.

Poetry is, infact, the beauty of literature, and so, has rightly been accorded the top most slot in every culture which has a literature to boast of. By appealing to the aesthetic sense, poems leave the readers in a state of long lasting bliss. Poems create beauty through rhythm, sounds, the thoughts they evoke, the characters they portray, the special use of language, through what they say and what they leave unsaid.

Besides providing aesthetic pleasure, poems teach immensely and, therefore, are an integral part of the school and college curriculum. First and foremost, poems are useful in learning language; since, poets use the language of the people to convey their thoughts and feelings. In the hands of the poets the language used gets enriched. Thus, poems help people in the development of effective speech. (more…)