Reading present-day poems about faraway places or past eras is a way for you to travel there without leaving the comfort of your home and can inspire you when planning your next trip. There is so much we can learn when we have the means to travel to other cities and countries.
It is possible to visit the homes of famous poets (for example, the E. E. Cummings House in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, the Jacques Prévert House in La Hague, France and Pablo Neruda’s houses in and near Santiago, Chile).
You can also follow famous poets in their footsteps by going on the same trips that they went on before. Matsuo Bashō, the inventor of the haiku took a trip up through the Japanese island of Honshu that he wrote about in a book called The Narrow Road to the Interior. You can follow his same itinerary today.