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How poetry reasons with us

Discover Your Roots

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Last time we talked about why poetry is such an important literary form in the Bible. Matana Duet: One of the reasons I think people think that poetry is not direct is because it's full of metaphors and illusions. Dr. Drew Johnson: Poetry plays with language and submits to certain formats and structures, we tend to take it less seriously than others.

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