Title: The Benefits From Reading Poems | Pen and the Pad
Headings: The Benefits From Reading Poems
The Benefits From Reading Poems
Improves Verbal Skills and Memory
Improves Critical Thinking
Develops Empathy and Insight
Encourages Engagement with Other Art Forms

Content: This skill benefits students, but also anyone who wants to form their own opinions of news items or gain a better perspective upon documents like contracts. As the currency of social interaction, language shapes an individual’s experience of the world. The critical thinking skills developed through reading poetry give greater control over language itself. Develops Empathy and Insight
The most remarkable power of literature is its ability to unite reader and writer across time and cultural boundaries. As condensed literature, poetry offers these benefits in an impactful way. Poetry triggers memories and emotions in its readers. This connection between universal emotions and personal experience encourages the development of empathy. A reader might have no practical conception of what life was like during the Elizabethan-era in England. However, Shakespeare’s "Sonnets," with their universal themes of love and longing, can bridge the gap of centuries and inject a whiff of the 17th century into the modern day. Encourages Engagement with Other Art Forms
Poetry is an excellent introduction to the arts.