双语：诗歌有益于心理健康
Poetry Is Good for Mental Health
From: https://www.ntu.ac.uk/
Reading, writing and sharing poetry can help people cope with loneliness or isolation and reduce feelings of anxiety and depression, a new study shows.
一项新的研究表明，阅读、写作和分享诗歌可以帮助人们应对孤独或孤立，并减少焦虑和抑郁的感觉。
Research by the University of Plymouth and Nottingham Trent University, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, found that many people who took to sharing, discussing and writing poetry as a means to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic experienced "demonstrable positive impact on their well-being".
普利茅斯大学和诺丁汉特伦特大学在艺术与人文研究委员会的资助下进行的一项研究发现，许多将分享、讨论和写诗作为应对COVID-19大流行手段的人“对他们的福祉产生了明显的积极影响”。
The findings are based on a survey of 400 people which showed that poetry helped those experiencing common mental health symptoms as well as those suffering from grief.
这一发现是基于一项对400人的调查，该调查显示，诗歌能帮助那些患有常见心理健康症状的人，也会帮助那些遭受悲伤的人。
It was carried out with registered users of the website poetryandcovid.com (now archived as poetryandcovidarchive.com), who used the website to share their own poetry and/or read other people's.
它是在poetryandcovid.com网站(现存档为poetryandcovidarchive.com)的注册用户中进行的，这些用户使用该网站分享自己的诗歌或是或阅读他人的诗歌。
Just over half (51%)of respondents indicated that reading and/or writing poetry had helped them deal with feelings of loneliness or isolation, and for a further 50% it had helped with feelings of anxiety and depression.
超过一半 (51%) 的受访者表示，阅读和/或写诗有助于他们应对孤独或孤立的感觉，另外 50% 的受访者表示，这有助于缓解焦虑和抑郁的感觉。
Around a third (34%)felt that engaging with the website helped them feel "less anxious", 24% felt that it helped them "feel better able to handle my problems", 17% expressed that it enabled them to deal with issues relating to bereavement, while 16% said it assisted with ongoing mental health symptoms.
大约三分之一(34%)的人认为，参与该网站帮助他们感到“不那么焦虑”，24%的人认为，它帮助他们“感觉能够更好地处理自己的问题”，17%的人表示，它使他们能够处理与丧亲之痛有关的问题，而16%的人表示，它有助于持续的心理健康症状。
"These results demonstrate the substantial power of poetry," said Principal Investigator Anthony Caleshu, Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at the University of Plymouth. "Writing and reading poetry, as well as engaging with the website, had a considerable positive impact on the well-being of the participants during the COVID-19 pandemic.
普利茅斯大学诗歌与创意写作教授、首席研究员安东尼·卡莱舒说：“这些结果证明了诗歌的巨大力量。”在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间，写作和阅读诗歌以及参与网站对参与者的福祉产生了相当大的积极影响。
"In addition to supporting their health and well-being, the website informed social and cultural recovery and offered an understanding of how poetry was being used as a mode of discourse during the pandemic. It now provides a historical archive for how people around the world used English language poetry to navigate the crisis."
“除了支持人们的健康和福祉外，该网站还为社会和文化恢复提供了信息，并提供了对大流行期间诗歌如何被用作一种话语模式的理解。现在，它为世界各地的人们如何使用英语诗歌来应对危机提供了一个历史档案。”
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