7 Benefits Of Writing Poetry

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Poetry helps ease the burden of life in numerous ways, maybe even save one.

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In the movie Dead poets Society, the protagonist, Mr Keating quotes Walt Whitman,

“O me, O life of the questions of these recurring. Of the endless trains of the faithless. Of cities filled with the foolish. What good amid these, O me, O life? Answer: You are here. Life exists and identity. The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.” He pauses and looks at the hopeful and bewildered eyes of his students. And he asks, “what will your verse be?”
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