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/^t/Some people would argue that because poets play with language, and use words in a new, different way, sometimes even stretching limits of language to its extremes, their work is not comprehensible. Poetry, for those people, is not as simple as prose: by simplicity they mean clearer structure which is also for them more traditional and natural. Moreover, many people are still not attracted to poetry because they have a specific image of a poet: that of the times of the end of the last century. Therefore, a person who writes poetry is, for them, someone not belonging to a group of ordinary citizens. It is not because these citizens are not willing to accept them to their group, but because poets themselves prefer to be outside. They live in another world, and claim that their work cannot be understood by everybody. Thus, because of their conviction that poets only write for themselves and for a small group of the elect, and that there is no point in trying to read poetry, people who are not poets do not try to understand it.