To me Shakespeare’s Sonnets are the greatest poetry ever written. I’m also very fond of Housman and Auden.
Children are encouraged to write descriptive lines and arrange them so that they look like poems. Some will progress beyond that, but most won’t.
We had a wonderful English teacher who made us write poems with proper formal structure when we were in the sixth form. I could do it, but some found it very difficult to scan and rhyme correctly.
Good Morning Saturday 20th April 2024
Estranged Son and Future Granddaughter
To think that London, or anywhere else for that matter, does not belong to any one demographic