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cassie58 asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 4 years ago

I want my teenage grandchildren to appreciate poetry. Name me one riveting poem that would capture their interest please?

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  • 4 years ago
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    I discovered poetry at the age of 8. I was supposed to learn by heart what to me at that age was a sloppy nature poem about croci: "The crocus while the days are dark unfolds its saffron sheen..." But on the opposite page was Byron's Destruction of Senacharib: "The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold / His cohorts were gleaming in silver and gold". I was enthralled. After class I was given detention for not knowing "The crocus", but by then I knew the whole of Byron's exciting poem. But that I had found for myself, and by defying authority. You are a very lucky grandparent if you can offer your grandchildren a poem and get them to like it. However, if they are boys they might like John Skelton's ribald "Tunning of Eleanor Rumming", about a slovenly medieval alewife and her exploitation of her elderly (female) alcoholic customers.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    La Belle Dame sans merci

    Source(s): First poem i loved
  • 4 years ago

    You should read them something by Langston Hughes or Maya Angelou. They are both great poets.

  • 4 years ago

    Any of yours! Your poetry was what got me hooked! Honestly truly...x

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  • ?
    Lv 6
    4 years ago

    Well...Ahem....I would read them some of your own poetry while walking through those dreary winters and colorful falls and flowery springtimes that YOU write so well about WITH THEM NOW! Then,Dear Pal O'er the POND, if they look bored,jump up on anything you can find and recite from memory Jabberwocky or Father William... I am positive they will remember this way way after your death.

  • 4 years ago

    The Poet and the Pearly Gates by Cheese Whisperer I hear it's very riveting.

  • GA
    Lv 5
    4 years ago

    Daffodils by William Wordsworth. It is a classic and about nature.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Green Eggs and Ham.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    I would like to think they would be enamored by time travel. Now, you may be talking

    about the pros Cassie, but even writing this and some of the following ones, I felt like

    I was riding The Time Machine:

    The Time Machine

    After years of thorough research

    Total secret from Christian Church

    Friends and family have no idea

    I invented the perfect panacea

    Crafted a malleable Time Machine

    No one on Earth could have foreseen

    Anneal and temper machine was built

    To facilitate life -- lived to the hilt

    You want to go back in time with me

    Listen to the rules and then you’ll see

    Can’t change the past, nor save Lincoln

    Not the purpose if that’s your thinking

    The warp of time is one of the heart

    Let me tell more before we depart

    Enclosure fits two, in fact two must go

    Amend one self won’t work dontcha know

    Now press the button, pull on my Vandyke

    On that brave moment super nova shall strike

    Abscond, attempt to destroy temporal might

    Your angst will build walls no more, in flight

    ____________________________________________

    I actually know about your situation from many discussions

    in the past, so this question is important to you, and a solution

    would or might help you catch your breath, as I know you work

    so hard and are a great grandmother.

    Thomas Bri

  • 4 years ago

    Get them some contemporary poetry. Try No Matter The Wreckage by Sara Kay. Check out Write Bloody publishing, everything they turn out is incredible. They're not going to care about anything that isn't relatable to their life.

  • 4 years ago

    "The riveter hammered the rivet in

    To the cold, hard plate

    Of the metal tin".

    ...... What do you think?

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