10-25-2011, 09:21 AM
Schools seem now to provide pretty patchy education in poetry. What should parents/grand-parents do? Which poems would you begin with, and carry on with? I began with many poems with a strong metre, mostly Romantic, or of the Imperial age, and then graduated to War Poets, and different types of structure in my teens, when I notice many children are susceptible, and memorise for the rest of lives. Or they did.