Poetry Reading
My dear children are in the living room listening to Oprah recite a piece of poetry on Peace with Maya Angelou.
Does that count as poetry for the day?
I was rather shocked to peek around the corner and see all my darlings sitting entranced, hypnotised, awe-struck.
One could say they looked like wet noodles with warped minds, but I prefer the more poetic version.
Speaking of poetry, we were at the library today for co-op and Little Flowers. I happened upon this book of Christmas poems:
At Christmastime by Valerie Worth/Antonio Frasconi.
Also got Christmas Folk by Natalia Belting / illustrated by Barbara Cooney (same artist of Miss Rumphius and others).
Does that count as poetry for the day?
I was rather shocked to peek around the corner and see all my darlings sitting entranced, hypnotised, awe-struck.
One could say they looked like wet noodles with warped minds, but I prefer the more poetic version.
Speaking of poetry, we were at the library today for co-op and Little Flowers. I happened upon this book of Christmas poems:
At Christmastime by Valerie Worth/Antonio Frasconi.
Also got Christmas Folk by Natalia Belting / illustrated by Barbara Cooney (same artist of Miss Rumphius and others).
posted by Cay Gibson @ 12/09/2005 04:52:00 PM
2 Comments:
At 8:03 AM,
Mary G said…
Cay -- just wanted to mention a cool book on poetry I got for the kids a couple of weeks back. Edited by Elise Paschen, Poetry for Children has some great poems in it -- and a cd where about half the poems are read by the authors (or someone else -- Basil Rathbone (Sherlock Holmes) reads "The Raven" -- this might be a better alternative to Oprah!
At 10:10 AM,
Cay Gibson said…
Mary,
The thing that was so ear-catching about Oprah's presentation was that she was reciting it in unison with Maya. They had a chorus behind them that provoked certain exclamatives from the poem.
Maya didn't just read the poem. This was a well-prepared/well-rehearsed poetic presentation.
Perhaps we need to think of ways to "present" poetry vs. just reading it to the children...though I really don't know how.
My dd did have an English teacher who presented it very well. She said even the boys in the class were often speechless after a recitation and could only say, "Wow!"
That teacher had a gift. It's made me much more aware of how I recite poetry. It simply can't "just be read."
Poetry certainly isn't appreciated enough. Thanks for sharing the CD. I'll have to check my library.
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