In the essay Poetry and Human Living by Gagnostopoulos, Literature: Reading Fiction Poetry and Drama, Fifth Edition. Robert Di Yanni. McGraw Hill. N.Y. 2002, the author expresses four mayor characteristics about what a poem shows us this are: 1) The poem lets us discover things about our every day life that we have never thought of before, 2) The poet makes us relate to the poem using life experiences that we all share, 3) The poem does not discovers a new philosophy it only expresses it. 4) The poem is not open to interpretations. Power a poem by Adrienne Rich, Diving to the Wreck Poems, W.W. Norton & Company, New York London 1994, is a vivid representation of this four characteristics of the poems.

One of the characteristics of a poem as said in the essay Poetry and Human Living is that the poem lets us discover things about our every day life...