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/^t/However, the above arguments form only one part of the discussion on the poets' role. There are many supporters of poets and poetry, who are strongly against the statement that poets are waste of time, public money or paper. Such people claim that without poetry life would be more difficult to understand and cope with. They argue that poets try to explain the surrounding world, its mechanisms and rules, and they turn readers' attention to some problems which normally are not even noticed, because they are too small and minute, or possibly too ordinary to draw attention to themselves. Such poems may make people aware of other people's lives and everyday struggles, of sad as well as happy moments of each following day.