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Poem Is Designed to Convey Emotions 　　 【Abstract】Poems are designed to convey emotions. The language of poem serves for the expression of emotions. When we judge whether a poem is a good one or not, we should firstly see if the emotion of the author is fully expressed by the language. What’s more, the language should be consistent to the theme of the poem. Over or less will both do harm to convey feelings. Poems are the unions of clear emotions and proper language. 　　 【Key words】poems, emotions, language, properness 　　 【中图分类号】G64 【文献标识码】A 【文章编号】2095-3089（2014）02-0037-02 　　 When I was in primary school, I thought poems were those whose forms were just like squares or rectangles. As I got rid of rote?鄄reciting, poems were those whose languages were really exquisite. When I strongly believed I was at least mentally mature, I was quite sure poems were the unions of tidy forms and delicate language. But now, I think I only know the appearance of poems and ignore something really important. That is the purpose of poems. 　　 Because of this immature understanding, I find myself being restricted in appreciating some of the poems. Especially some short poems where no clear rhythm and splendid words can be found. But some of them are so much popular among people. There must be a reason for that. 　　 The same thing happened to me when I came across the little poem written by William Carlos Williams: 　　 I have eaten 　　 the plums 　　 that were in 　　 the icebox. 　　 And which 　　 you were probably 　　 saving for breakfast. 　　 Forgive me 　　 they are delicious. 　　 So sweet 　　 and so cold. 　　 When I firstly met such a poem, I thought it was out of my appreciation. According to my standard, it was not sound and you can only find some easy words in it. No great image can be built, neither. But why this poem could be distinguished as one of the most classic poems in literature? 　　 Following the analysis of the book which was written by Professor Li Zhimin: The Construc