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“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.” (Eliot) Poetry is something that can teach so much in only a few lines. Many times it makes the reader see something in a new way, but it also has the ability to teach about the past. Poetry like this is very meaningful. It is meaningful because it allows people today to appreciate their past. In the 20th century life was very different from the way that it is today. Back then life was a lot harder and people had to live through a lot of hard times economically and physically. Many people used to farm and this took work from the whole family, not just the parents. Kids from a very young age learned how to plow farm land and take care of animals because their family needed them to help in order to survive. Poetry like this also teaches about how people felt in the past. When you read a poem it has a certain mood to it, and these moods can tell a lot about the feelings of the people that were alive during the time that it was written. Poems from the past, like everything else help to teach people now about what happened in the past. Many of these things are bad because the only way to make sure that history does not repeat itself is to teach future generations about what happened in the past and hope that they can see why it should never happen again. Robert Frost is a poet who was able to teach his readers something about the past in a way that made it meaningful. Poetry from the 20 and 21st centuries that is set in rural and natural areas such as Robert Frost’s poetry is meaningful because it gives people an appreciation for their ancestors, shows why things are the way that they are today, and it teaches people to appreciate the little things in life.
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