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d what kind of attitude we should have toward life. This is the basic function of poetry----to educate people, and enrich their life experience. Understanding poetry relies on treating poems as crises from unwritten stories, so we may find the elements which together make up the experience the poem conveys. However, in some poetry, the vital elements are expressed in images rather than direct language. Then we must rereading the poem and find what the image represents. Remember: Poets do not make their experiences live in characters or a story; poetry explains its meaning in any pattern of words which evokes a feeling and communicates the poet’s complex idea. It is necessary to be flexible, therefore, in approaching poems. From what we have discussed above, we can see that every word, every sentence of poem, must reach its utmost intensity. That is to say, it must be different from common language in expressing ideas. Poets should use source materials as much as possible offered by the language itself, and then based on some literary techniques such as association, imagination, simile, metaphor, contrast, comparison, rhyme, sarcastic, etc as well as some life experience to express the underlying meanings. The successful poems have no extra word. The good poem is just like a tree, which forms its own structure and organizes by itself. The good poem is also an organism, in which every part must serve a useful purpose and every part must cooperate with one another to show the inner life of the poem. As for the readers, while we are reading poems, we are enjoying a process of appreciation. We are appreciating not only the happiness, but also the bitterness of poems. Samuel Johnson once said: "The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing." (from Preface to Shakespeare) In my opinion, poetry is a composition designed to convey a vivid and imaginative sense of experience, characterized by the use of condensed language, as well as literary techniques. Poetry is the most outstanding representative of people’s life, so reading poems is also the process of understanding the profound meanings of our life. Bibliography: [1] Forrest G. Robinson: 《剑桥文学指南 哈代》，上海教育出版社，2001年版 [2] 劳•坡林：《怎样欣赏英美诗歌》，北京出版社，1985年版 [3]童庆炳主编：《文学理论教程》，高等教育出版社，1997年版 [4]王佐良：《英诗的境界》，三联书店出版社，1996年版 [5]赵世平：《英诗知识与赏析》，陕西师范大学出版社，1992年版 本论文由英语论文网提供整理，提供论文代写，英语论文代写，代写论文，代写英语论文，代写留学生论文，代写英文论文，留学生论文代写相关核心关键词搜索。