Who are your favourite Poets and Poems? I could make a long list, but two favourites of mine are Alfred Lord Tennyson and Edmund Spenser.
I was taught to speak a poem five times to get the full benefit. I speak long poems in manageable chunks. I start with the poems I enjoy the most before tackling the harder ones.
I read a poem each day. It is less time consuming than reading a chapter of a book if I am busy. One line of poetry can have a profound effect and inspire my writing.
There are some excellent books of collected poems. for adults and children.
I reccomend, 'The New Faber Book of Children's Poems, Charles Causley's The Collected Poems of Children, and Staying Alive the Bloodaxe book of contemporary adult poetry,
I believe poetry broadens the mind and enhances creative thought.
Poetry has helped my writing considerably.
'Cursed be the social lies that warp us to the living truth.' - Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Hi Barbara.
A fine list of excellent Poets.
I thoroughly enjoyed Simon Arrmitage's BBC programme on the origins of the story, 'The Green Knight.'
'Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.' - Thomas Gray.
'Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.' - T. S. Eliot.
I love Poetry, Carol Anne Duffy ,Simon Armitage, Keats, Shakespeare and even Shelley.
Poetry is my whole it gives you a sense of being there. i've written plenty of Poetry and to have people reading it and it giving them a sense of being there its so wonderful. Life it self is poetry.