Poets and Poetry Through the Years
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Poets have played an important role in writing for special occasions throughout history. [1] Poets were the earliest writers and their epic poems were highly respected. [2] Poets would be asked by royalty and leaders to compose poems for important events like coronations or inaugurations. [3] The tradition continues today with the United States appointing Poet Laureates through the Library of Congress to write poems for national occasions or memorials.
Poets and Poetry Through the Years
- 1. Every Story Matters Poets and Poetry Ken Ronkowitz
- 2. Before there was written language… there were storytellers
- 3. Before there were stories written…
- 4. When stories were written, poets were there… The earliest surviving works of ancient Greek literature are the two epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey. Poets were famous and respected.
- 5. Poets in the Royal Court were asked to write poems for occasions Shakespeare with Queen Elizabeth I The coronation Elizabeth II; the wedding of William and Kate; the funeral of Princess Diana
- 6. American Poets & Poems for Occasions Maya Angelou asked to read by President Clinton Robert Frost asked by President Kennedy Richard Blanco and then Elizabeth Alexander were asked to write poems by President Obama for his two inaugurations.
- 7. U.S. Poet Laureates appointed by the Library of Congress Tracy K. Smith, Current Poet Laureate The Poetry and Literature Center at the Library of Congress Juan Felipe Herrera 2015 - 2017
- 8. A poem written by Poet Laureate Billy Collins about the attack on New York City on 9/11/01 & read at the U.S. Congress.
- 9. Do you ever write poems for special occasions? Have you ever paid someone to write the appropriate words for you?
- 10. And do you ever write poems for special occasions? Or do you hire someone to write the appropriate words for you? The custom of sending greeting cards can be traced back to the ancient Chinese, who exchanged messages of good will to celebrate the New Year, and to the early Egyptians, who conveyed their greetings on papyrus scrolls. By the early 15th century, handmade paper greeting cards were being exchanged in Europe, including handmade paper Valentines.
- 11. Poets are always inspired, are always composing and constantly revising. 1. Inspiration to write a poem. What prompts you to write? 2. Composing the poem 3. Revising the poem 4. Getting your words out into the world a) Give it to someone else to read b)Read it out loud to others. c) Publish it (online, magazines, books) TheProcess
- 12. What makes a poem a POEM? Are either of these poems? In Winter Haven I took a room in a motel on the edge of an orange grove. Next door was a restaurant, with orange trees, full of fruit, spreading over its parking lot. I went in for dinner, and after dinner, I found a plastic orange reamer. And a knife and went back to the edge of the grove. I picked several oranges, squeezed them, poured the juice into a tall glass. I had what I wanted. It had been a long day. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood and sorry I could not travel both and be one traveler, long I stood and looked down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth. Then took the other, as just as fair and having perhaps the better claim. Because it was grassy and wanted wear. Though as for that the passing there had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay in leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.