the spiritual applications of poetry
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the notion of poets as teachers
an example of how romantic poetry has existed for thousands of years
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the belief that poetry could improve crop yields
the controversy surrounding a definition of what poetry actually is
how poetry was used to register births and family relationships
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how certain poetic forms express ideas that are difficult to define