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Sharing Poetry with Children
When you share poetry with children, it enables them with qualities that otherwise may not have developed until much later in life. Poetry allows the child to think creatively and thoroughly. Using rhythm, rhyme, and, if they so they decide, a gateway to release everyday stress and dissatisfaction of life in writing.
Reading poetry from Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman or other famous authors can give children a personal advantage over most. Many famous poems are made of a unique voice, abnormal punctuation and an extended us of vocabulary. This type of poetry helps encourage younger generations at forming a distinct personality and become enriched with the power of word.
Poetry gives children an escape of reality. Nowadays, younger generations are soured by poverty, hunger, drugs and abuse. With poetry, children can leave everyday life and become something they could only dream of or travel to a not-so-distant land and learn of the beauties of this world.
If it weren't for poetry, the stresses of everyday would have claimed thousands of more lives. Although many teenagers now write of death, suicide and other horrible atrocities, it stands as a vent of what otherwise would have came true. Poetry is something we all love - no matter what we are into there is something for all of us.
Children might first shy away from poetry, especially boys claiming it's for sissies or girlie-men. However, once they learn of the adventurous verses and creative opening, they will be the first to recognize the power of poetry.
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