HOW POETRY EFFECTS US
Hello once again!! Creating late night blogs has become a Sunday night ritual!!!
A question that I addressed to a couple of my friends was why do some people love poetry and others do not? Some people say that poetry wasn't taught to them properly while others say that it is too girly. My response to those answers are: (1) Poetry has been introduced to us at the beginning of our childhood. All our infant nursery rhymes and lullabies are a form of poetry. Perhaps it is not that they were not taught poetry properly but that they don't understand what poetry is and therefore shun what is unknown for them. We all grew up loving our nursery rhymes so therefore we have all liked some poetry at some point in our lives. (2) For the answer that poetry is too girly I have only one response, many great poets are male. Not all poetry is for the women!!!
A question that I addressed to a couple of my friends was why do some people love poetry and others do not? Some people say that poetry wasn't taught to them properly while others say that it is too girly. My response to those answers are: (1) Poetry has been introduced to us at the beginning of our childhood. All our infant nursery rhymes and lullabies are a form of poetry. Perhaps it is not that they were not taught poetry properly but that they don't understand what poetry is and therefore shun what is unknown for them. We all grew up loving our nursery rhymes so therefore we have all liked some poetry at some point in our lives. (2) For the answer that poetry is too girly I have only one response, many great poets are male. Not all poetry is for the women!!!
posted by Chrissy G @ 8:45 PM
1 Comments:
At October 17, 2004 at 3:40 PM,
Tim said…
I think good poetry shows a command of language, something men don't frequently value... unless of course you're talking about 4-letter words. Now I'm really good at stringing those together. :-)
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