Read the full article which is published on Philosophy Bits (external link)A poem is a way of using metaphor to express something. And because our understanding of both the world and the self rests on metaphor, poems go directly to the heart of our experience. By communicating in the most direct way possible for a human being, poems are capable of revealing truths we would not otherwise be able to reach. They do this by leveraging the metaphors we use most — those of ordinary language — to reveal facets of experience that have previously gone unnoticed.
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