[9급 국가직 영어 2011년 15번]

If you are at the seaside, and you take an old, dull, brown penny and rub it hard for a minute or two with handfuls of wet sand, the penny will come out a bright gold colour, looking as clean and new as the day it was made. Now poetry has the same effect on words as wet sand on pennies. In what seems almost a miraculous way, it brightens up words that looked dull and ordinary. Thus, poetry is perpetually                  .