When a person reads anything, he or she has the opportunity to envision mental pictures of the content as they are guided to understanding through a series of words. Especially in poetry, sensory perceptions triggered by literal description, allusion, simile, or metaphor, among other word manipulations, give the reader a unique experience which he or she couldn’t have had without reading the text.
It’s wonderful what we can experience through words!
Which are more vivid: your dream-world or the worlds which you construct while reading or listening to stories or poems?
ものがたり Translating Horror 