"Poetry allows poets to give form to experience and feelings which are difficult to put into words".

... "Poetry allows poets to give form to experience and feelings which are difficult to put into words" I agree with this statement. Poetry has a number of advantages to make it a more fulfilling way of expressing one's feelings. Rather than plain words such as that in stories, poets can use poetic techniques such as language, rhythm, rhyme and cadence to convey feelings, which possibly cannot be expressed in words, by their very use in the poem. A poem such as Christina Rossetti's "Remember" is widely acknowledged as proof for such a statement. The most obvious example is the reversal of sentiment from the beginning to the end of the poem. This gives form to transformation of selfish to self-less feelings often expressed by people when they know they are going to either leave a particular place or leave this world all together. First we selfishly wish that everyone remember us, we

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