As Shelly explains, poetry uses language to express the deepest imaginations and the meaning behind the poets ideas and emotions. She compares children finding joy and pleasure in toys to adults finding peace and solace in poetry. For both ages, their respective item is a source of imagination, growth, emotional release, and more. Likes toys, poetry can also unite people, as people share in memories, feelings, and ideas through the language of poetry, they are united in new bonds of friendship.