I have always thought of poetry as being a written art, beautiful and timeless, yet in a way quite static. Recently however, a friend introduced me to the art of slam poetry and I immediately felt a renewed sense of passion for the art. Slam poetry is basically an oral poetry competition. The competitors each read out their poems to a live audience and are then judged not only on the content of their work, but also the delivery of their performance.
I remember my days at school and the English literature classes. During those times I can hardly imagine a student ignoring this subject simply because school system was vesting so much of importance into carefully going through classic English poetry represented by poets that have fascinated and keep influencing the whole literature world - names such as Byron, Shakespeare, Blake and so on. However, one can easily observe a change in the social attitude towards learning more about the English literature - young people are getting less and less interested in this particular subject and the English classic poetry is somehow in a state of a serious decay.
The educational system nowadays is more focused on providing practical and theoretical knowledge to students on a particular sphere of their interest thus depriving them from the focus on the common knowledge that was quite usual for the decades prior to the beginning of the 21st century. Thus, if someone is interested in interoffice furniture design, would simply go through English literature during his basic education and would never deeply observe the vast areas of English literature in his following years in school.
Additionally, I clearly remember the efforts of schools and government to make students more interested in the classics when it comes to poetry. There were largely advertised competitions on literature and literature analysis, there were special events organized and focused exactly on exploring the classical poetic heritage of England. Nowadays, computer and IT competitions, smartphone design contests, software development programs and practical engineering competitions are replacing the literature events that were once quite popular.
And we are not saying focus solely on literature. However, the modern day generations would be slowly losing the touch to the romantic and beautiful English history without the works of some of the most brilliant and interesting poets of all times.
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There is a poet in everyone. Most of us just don’t know it yet! Writing poems doesn’t require as much skill as many would assume. Almost anyone can write a poem.
Now if you are going to write a poem in English then ensure you’re your skills are up to par. So if you need to do an English course uk, then do so.
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That’s a good question. In a world where literature is king and communication is so important – no, make that vital – it’s difficult to imagine poetry not being around. But if that had been the case, I suppose it might have gone something like this…
To start with, there would have been no rhyming. That would have meant that at primary schools across the world, a great deal of fun would have been missed out on. This lack of rhyming would have meant that by the time secondary school came around, words would have been quite dead. No poems, no romance…no great verses etched into the minds of our youth. This would have led to adults with no idea of what power rhyming words could have on people. It would have meant generations of adults lacking a certain something – how sad that would have been!
Another sad aspect of poems never existing would have been the lack of people laughing while inventing stupid and nonsensical rhyming slang. This would have made growing up very, very different. In other words, it would have made the entire world completely different from how it is today. Different in a bad way, to.
we should be encouraging the young to develop their poetry skills at every opportunity
Another horrifying thing I must face up to as I write this here is the fact that people would have lacked a great form of self-expression. They’d have had no way to put messages across in a fun and inspiring way. In short, it would have meant that people wouldn’t have ended up as people as we now know them.
And that, my friends out there, is why we should all be so grateful that poetry is in existence. It’s why we should be encouraging the young to develop their poetry skills at every opportunity. Because the more they develop their poetic skills, the better they will be able to communicate with people.
I for one happen to think that’s a pretty fantastic thing!
Not everyone is of the same opinion, of course. For example, for some strange reason I got talking about this new world with a girl from it support london last week. She just went very quiet on the phone and said nothing about it. I said again, “have you ever tried poetry?” and to this she replied, “I hate to admit this but I don’t think I have ever heard one…”
I told her not to worry. I always like a good reason to spout some of my own poetry, and so I began…
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The sign on the wall as we passed the supermarket said hybrid cars uk and that, right there, as I processed this information, is when the poem died in the seat behind me.
I felt like I wanted to cry: the mother who sat next to the boy had just taken his book of poems away from him. His hand-written book of poems. And afterwards she had said, “you don’t need stupid poems. Poems are for girls.”
And then it struck me, again: how far away we are from showing the poem in a natural good light. Not one of femininity but one of neutrality and power.
When I was a boy I remember – and remember it vividly – my Grandfather reciting some poetry to me. He had grown up with poetry and loved it, and these short verses we exchanged were our little secret that mum and dad could not touch.
But when Granddad passed away his poems left too. After that I couldn’t help but feel that the world was busy moving on. Busy and too busy and not bothered about upholding the traditions of the ages anymore. In short, the poetry had been killed off by modern technology and told to banish itself from the consciousness of a generation. Or two.
Back when Granddad was young, poems didn’t have a ’sex’. They were what they were – beautiful passages of communication on a page. Poems were something you did because you had something to say, a message to get out, a love to spread as far and wide as the written word could travel. But now things are different. Communication is fast, effortless and trivialised to a few mere characters which are supposed to represent so much more. The youth of today think that if something has emotional value attached to it then it is irrelevant or pathetic. They think of it as a sign of weakness. They think of it as something they don’t want near them, less it infects them with negativity. They call it things like ‘emo'and ‘rubbish'and worst of all ‘gay’.
I’ll never give up reading my poems, and if I ever see a mother tear the love and passion out of a child’s hand again then who knows, I may just have to say something.
It may not be politically correct but sometimes right is right and that’s the only route to go down.
The youth of today think that if something has emotional value attached to it then it is irrelevant or pathetic
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