I know that when I meet my own life in a great poem, I feel opened, clarified, confirmed somehow in what I sensed was true but had no words for.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is best known for his plays, but he's not nicknamed the Bard of Avon for nothing. But I was wrong.

Great poetry is not literal, almost by definition.

Poetry seems to have almost disappeared from our busy lives altogether.

It matters to Syrian refugees who are longing to hold tight to their dearest memories of home and to tell their stories of strength and resilience going forward. We reach and strain with our thoughts, trying to grasp what poetry is, trying to somehow distinguish it from all that is not poetry, but without success. Many famous people of poetry believed that you could tell when a person wasn’t 2 Why is Poetry Important? This, in turn, brightening their sole.

If you are reluctant to teach poetry, I encourage you to read the reasons why and to find out for yourself. After 9/11, when poetry was flowing in a steady and necessary stream across the Internet, someone asked Billy Collins why that phenomenon was happening and he said: "Because poetry tells the story of the human heart." Suddenly the words do not sound the same or mean the same.

I hardly knew any poets and barely understood those I had read, but poetry seemed to be a necessary affectation for the burgeoning literary snob that I was.

Robert Lee Brewer shares his thoughts on the issue.

In fact, we tend not to think too much about poetry at all these days, unless you're a high-school kid who's being "forced" to study Shakespeare or Yeats. Instructional time is precious, and as teachers, we like to know why we are prioritizing certain content. Even cultural conservatives do not want to lose William Blake's prophetic verse, Whitman, or Eliot, or Seamus Heaney - and in order to accommodate these and similar writings which break the prime directive of poetry; they have left the whole subject of poetry deeply confused.

If you are a poetry advocate already, I hope you gain some additional insight and ideas to strengthen your program. Research has also concluded that teaching students poetry offers measurable results in a wide set of linguistic domains. Secretly, earlier this year, I began to write poetry. Then we come across something as simple as this statement by A. E. Housman: "Poetry is not the thing said, but a way of saying it."

Bring some poetry into your hearts, homes, classrooms and schools. * So poetry is no longer important because people have become hopelessly confused about what a poem is.

April is National Poetry Month.

I memorized “The Tiger” because I had to, “The Raven” because I was bored in class, and Dickinson because I … happy or lacking soul.

To be fair, the same thing could be said about literary poetry. This is why poetry can be dangerous as well as necessary. Why Is poetry Important to our community? Yes, it’s mostly a ratings war that portrays the world we live in today as ugly, chaotic, violent and without mercy. I thought poetry was just for mysterious literary writers.

Why is poetry important?

Literature is important and necessary. Poetry is one of the most universal vehicles of human expression, and one of the most important of all written media for describing experiences. This post includes five reasons to teach poetry in the classroom. I discovered poetry not in a college classroom or later, as an English teacher.

I used to think poetry was one of two things.

Poetry Is defined as a work of literacy at which special Intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm.

What Is Poetry?

Where once parents would recite nursery rhymes with their babies and littlies, now we tend to let them watch TV or play on the computer. Since then, I’ve found that not enough writers write poetry, so here’s why you should. I believe poetry is only important if you attribute importance to it, i.e if the subject of the poem is about God, else poetry is just an instrument to achieve a smile.

... Why is poetry important? Shakespeare also wrote more than 150 sonnets and love poems… In a nutshell, this is because hearing poetry creates pathways in children's brains that hearing other types of language does not.

Reading Poetry. (Don’t tell my boss, though.) “Poetry enables teachers to teach their students how to write, read, and understand any text.

Poems are where voices can join together and sing in a … I can't help what i think, i believe most things that we do are in vain, its pessimistic but true.