Poetry has existed since the days of the ancient world. And no innovations - the development of modern information technologies, changes in the social order, any other world transformations will be able to force people to abandon it.
Poetry - the power of the word, denounced in poetic form
Both the great artistic heritage left by the poets of bygone eras, and modern poetry - all have their undeniable value. First of all, poetry teaches the ability to listen and hear what the poet wanted to share. Any poem, like other works of art, carries its own meaning, which may lie on the surface, or may be deeply hidden behind a number of metaphors and metonymy.
Poems teach people the same thing as all other literary creativity - to think, feel, empathize, imbued with the emotions that are conveyed in them. Poetry develops the world of the soul, enriches it, to some extent forms a person's worldview.
Poetry helps to unite the rational world of an impartial mind and feelings beyond its control into one whole, restores immediacy and freshness of perception, gets rid of patterns and stereotypes of thinking.
The value of poetry for adults and children
Most of the poems, as a rule, are not intended to broaden their horizons or convey to readers any precise information about any events. Their task is different - to introduce the listener into the world of emotions and feelings, to help him look into his soul. Find something that resonates with the poems, makes them feel, empathize.
Poetry cultivates in its readers such universal values as love, respect, compassion, empathy, courage and honor. By sharing his experiences with the reader, the poet cannot please absolutely everyone. Someone will share his views on life, someone will reject them. Here, something else is important: to learn to understand the sometimes very difficult language of a poetic work, to gain a desire to delve into the experiences of another person - distant and unfamiliar, who lived, perhaps, several centuries ago. Poetry is the key to the soul and heart of another person, and possibly an entire era.
A. S. Pushkin, Sergei Yesenin, Alexander Blok, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Marina Tsvetaeva, Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak, Igor Severyanin and many, many other poets forever remain in the memory of descendants, not because they wrote many poems, and not because their books are published in beautiful covers in large editions. It's just that all these people skillfully put their thoughts, emotions, feelings on paper, they did it with an open heart. They seemed to know that their gift - to love, dream, feel - would become an ideal and a model for many, many subsequent generations.
Unlike poetry for adults, children's poems, on the contrary, often carry very specific educational and cognitive goals. Works by A. Barto, S. Ya. Marshak, S. Mikhalkov and other famous poets in a form accessible to the child's understanding, unobtrusively and interestingly, help the little person to take the first steps in such a large and interesting world for him, full of questions and mysteries.
