What is the function of poetry?

Develop language ability and cultivate aesthetic taste. Poetry shows its language art with strong sense of rhythm, wonderful rhythm, refined language, strange imagination and rich feelings. Excellent poetry works often contain rich and colorful feelings, profound thoughts, deep and remote artistic conception, and exquisite and beautiful language, which makes people naturally moved by language, infected by aesthetics, blended by emotions, and thoughts do it one brace up. From the perspective of language, different poets and different poems have different language styles, characteristics and skills.

Some are concise and straightforward, and some are subtle and euphemistic; Some are indulgent, some are graceful and elegant; Some are beautiful and romantic, while others are simple and natural. Learning excellent poetry works can help people learn the style, characteristics and skills of language expression, hone language art, develop language expression ability and improve language application ability in the process of appreciating and understanding wonderful and standardized language.