First, poetry forces us to look closely at ordinary things, and to see, in them, the extraordinary creation God has made. We are surrounded by ordinary things. The majority of our lives are what we would call common-place. We see people we have seen before, the scenery around us is the same from day to day. We rarely experience anything really out of the ordinary. Our culture today thrives on change, on constant thrills. Our culture teaches us to yearn for continual novelty, to be dissatisfied with the same old things. Rarely do we look closely and carefully enough at the stuff of our ordinary lives to see the beauty and delight of the world God has made. Poetry teaches us to celebrate the everyday things of life.