诗为什么重要

Why Poetry Matters

诗人华兹华斯曾说过：“最微小的花朵对于我，也能激起非泪水所能表现的深思”，而他又通过诸多深思创造了许多伟大的诗篇。诗赋予我们的即是一些讲述深刻思想的微小声音，聆听这些声音让我们内心变得强大，这样纵然现实生活压力巨大，我们仍能抵御住一切压力，静静地面对世界的纷纷扰扰。

Poetry doesn＇t matter to most people. They go about their business as usual, rarely consulting their Shakespeare, Wordsworth, or Frost. One has to wonder if poetry has any place in the 21st century, when music videos and satellite television offer daunting competition for poems, which demand a good deal of attention and considerable analytic skills, as well as some knowledge of the traditions of poetry.