{"id":7010,"date":"2018-03-19T16:45:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-19T16:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mytutor.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7010"},"modified":"2021-08-18T13:28:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T13:28:07","slug":"world-poetry-day-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mytutor.co.uk\/blog\/parents\/just-for-fun\/world-poetry-day-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"5 poems to celebrate World Poetry Day 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 21st<\/sup> of March is World Poetry Day<\/a>, where people can learn about different poems from around the world and can appreciate poetry as a relevant rather than old dated art form. Schools can celebrate the day by getting students and teachers to recite their favourite poems; inviting poets into school to perform and discuss their poems; or encouraging students to write their own pieces.<\/p>\n

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Here are five of my favourite poems that you can read and enjoy on World Poetry Day.<\/p>\n

Dulce et Decorum est, Wilfred Owen<\/h2>\n

Unlike many war poems, Dulce et Decorum est<\/i> does not celebrate the glory of war or the importance of defending your country. Instead, it conveys an important and very current message about the realities of war. The horror and futility of killing millions of people for an abstract cause. In the last lines, Owen warns us not to believe \u2018The old Lie\u2019 that gives the poem its name: \u201cDulce et Decorum est\/ Pro patria mori (It is a sweet and honourable thing to die for one\u2019s country).\u201d<\/p>\n

Nothing\u2019s Changed<\/i>, Tatamkhulu Afrika<\/h2>\n

The harsh, brash, biting rhythm of this fast-paced poem is filled with anger and frustration at South Africa\u2019s deep-rooted racism, even after the official end of the Apartheid. Despite physical unity between the black and white communities, the narrator knows that mentally \u201cnothing\u2019s changed.\u201d<\/p>\n

It also spits out an important accusation at our modern society. Global laws may have freed ethnic minorities from racial oppression but, until individual people can learn acceptance, there will still be inequality.<\/p>\n

The Jabberwocky<\/i>, Lewis Carroll<\/h2>\n

Who says poetry has to be serious? In fact, for Lewis Carroll, best known for the Alice in Wonderland <\/i>series, poetry can be complete nonsense.<\/p>\n

Try understanding his most famous poem, The Jabberwocky<\/i>, which opens and closes with<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2019Twas brillig, and the slithy toves<\/em><\/p>\n

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:<\/em><\/p>\n

All mimsy were the borogoves,<\/em><\/p>\n

And the mome raths outgrabe.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

But, of course, the genius of Carroll means even gobbledegook is art. Read the poem out loud and you will realise it\u2019s not the words, but how the words sound, that reveals the poem\u2019s meaning.<\/p>\n

My Last Duchess<\/i>, Robert Browning<\/h2>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s my last Duchess painted on the wall,<\/em><\/p>\n

Looking as if she were alive\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

Is a creepy beginning to a creepy poem. Robert Browning, a Victorian poet, was most known for his \u2018dramatic monologues\u2019.<\/p>\n

Dramatic monologues are perfect for those who prefer books to poems because, like books, a very vivid, complex, and compelling character tells a thrilling story to the reader. Read My Last Duchess <\/i>and prepared to be terrified by the calculating, clinical, and cold personality of the Duke of Ferrara, and discover the horrifying truth of what happened to his former wife.<\/p>\n

Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf, Roald Dahl<\/h2>\n

Saving the best until last, Roald Dahl\u2019s Little Red Riding Hood and The Wolf <\/i>is one of my most-loved poems.<\/p>\n

If you have ever read Dahl\u2019s books, you will know he is a master storyteller, and he puts every ounce of his wit, humour, and ingenuity into a modern retelling of the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale.<\/p>\n

Written in bouncing rhyming couplets, this is a perfect poem to read out loud. Get together a group of friends to play the narrator, the grandma, the wolf, and Little Red Riding Hood. If the poem at first seems like any ordinary fairy tale, keep reading \u2013 Dahl\u2019s Little Red Riding Hood is not a girl to mess with.<\/p>\n

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Written by Florianne H.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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