LESSON 3: POETRY AND

VERSES.
Presented by: Villa, Silvano. Susana and Cristal
OBJECTIVES

Define poetry and verses

• Trace the history of children’s literature
and it’s development in the philippines.
• Appreciate the value of literature in
teaching literacy.
WHAT IS POETRY?

• Poetry is an artistic expression of thought and emotion in

rhythmical language. Poetry is a kind of verbal music.
Poetry is like a musical score that must be interpreted by
the human voice in order to get the fullest enjoyment.
EXAMPLE OF A POETRY:

“BIRD SOUL”
By: Nisi Poesy
QUALITIES OF POETRY
Poetry has a musical and rhytmic qualities that children enjoy.
Poetry appeals to the imagination. The poet makes us see what he has seen and
feel what he has felt. He makes use of words and phrases that are descriptive,
sensory and associative.
The emotional content of poetry must be sincere, worth expressing, and must be
univers in appeal. A great poem must speak of experiences common to all people.
• Subjects of poetry for children must be varied. They must be subjects familiar
to children can add new richer meanigs to their experiences.

Children as well adults, find no enjoyment in poems that are unfamiliar or

unrelated to their experiences. They find the figurative language in poetry
difficult to understand.
CLASSIFICATION OF POETRY
Classification of Poetry
Poetry can be classified according to form and according to their subject
content.
I. Types of Poems According to form:
A. Narrative Poems tell a story and events
Kinds of narrative poems:
1. Ballads are narrative poems that are intended to be sung.
2. Epics deal with deeds and heroic adventures
• 3. Metrical romances are lengthy narrative poems that deal with love and
brave deeds of a hero like.
CLASSIFICATION OF POEM

B. Lyric Poems express the feeling, mood and the personality of

the poet.
Kinds of lyric poems:
1. Song are poems that can be sung.
2. Pastoral poems are about sheperds and rural scenes.
3. Sonnets are poems of 14 lines. There is a define rhytming
pattern.
4. Elergy is mediative poem that expresses grief or deals with
sorrow and death
• 5. Ode is a poem that expresses exalted feelings, a praise for
someone or something.
EXAMPLE OF LYRIC POEMS
• PASTORAL POEMS ELERGY POEMS

• SONNETS POEMS ORDE POEMS

VALUES OF POETRY
1. Enriches children’s experiences.
2. Develops correct enunciation.
3. Develops literary appreciation.
4. Develops the imagination.
5. Enlarges the vocabulary.
6. Improves aesthetic sense.
7. Gives them please and delight.
8. Improves their outlook in life and nature.
WHAT IS A VERSE?
• A verse is a line of poetryhaving usually, determined metrical or
rhytmical pattern.
• A humorous verse deals with the amusing things that befall people or
conceivably befall them.
• A nonsense verse deals with absurd or meaningless words pabbles,
jumbles, potatoes that dance, chickens that go out of tea.
• Mother goose rhymes or nursery rhymes for the very young children is an
introduction to the gay traditions of nonsense verse for children.
Nonsense verse may not represent the highest level of poetry but they
do contribute to the child’s personal and literary development.
VALUES OF NONSENSE VERSE FOR CHILDREN

• They provide humor for children. Children laugh heartily the

words even though the word may be meaning less to them.
• They introduce the children rhyme and various patters of verse.
• They serve as release from tension and anxities.
• They provide children a means of escape from reality.
• They are excellent for ear training.
• They serve as introduction to better poetry.
POETS OF NONSENSE VERSE
• Edward Lear, 1812-1888 was the greatest poet of nonsense. Although he was
sick of epilepsy, it didn’t stop him from writing limerick’s, funny poems of five
lines. In 1846, he published the Book of Nonsense and in 1871 Nonsense Songs
and Stories.
• The Qualities of Lear’s Verse are his made up words. An example is his five
different sets of alphabet, rhymes which are the alliterative and tounge twister
variety.
POETS OF NONSENSE VERSE
• Lewis Carol, 1882-1898, writer of humorous verse for children wrote Alice’s Adventure
in Wonderland.
• Laura E. Richards 1850-1943, was known as the children’s American Poet Laureate of
Nonsense. Her favorite verses were found in Tira Lirra: Rhymes old and New Published
in 1932.
The QUALITIES of Laura E. Richards verses are:
She uses funny words
She uses numorous tales
She deals with funny characters and funny situation
• Her verses have lyrical quality
POETS OF NONSENSE VERSE
• A.A Milne, 1882, Milne’s charm is his ability to
present small children as they are. Mine shows the
child’s love of small animals. The verses are full of
the small child’s activities too. Milne makes use of
words, rhyme and ryhtm to convey character, mood
and action.
DEVELOPMENT OF POETRY FOR CHILDREN AND
THEIR POEM-MAKERS
Most of the writers of the present, make use of his past
experiences and make each of his own way to sing the songs of
childhood in key with the spirit of child and the spirit of the
times. Poetry for children had only folk rhymes, singing games,
ballads and other traditional verse originally intended for adults
at first.
Just as children appropriated in part or in whole some of the
prose classics such as Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver’s Travel’s, and
the Pilgrims Progress.
• Poetry in the 17th and 18th centuries contained a good deal
which appealed only to the older children, but except for the
anonymous verses, there was very little which the younger
DEVELOPMENT OF POETRY FOR CHILDREN AND
THEIR POEM MAKERS
• Dr. Isaac Watts published his Divine and Moral songs for children in 1715. These songs, while of
religious nature, had, nevertheless, a very real appeal to children. “A Cradle Hymn”, is one of the
poems that are included in juvenile books of today. Many of his poems displayed a real tenderness
for children.
• William Blake, 1757-1827 was the first of the important English poets to write poetry for children.
According to him, children were won little sinners to be warned and frightened, but were the
unspoiled handiwork of Divine Love. Hisnthemes is about nature, the lives of the simple people,
gay and laughing children and turn his back on everything artificial and purely formal.
• Ann and Jane Taylor, (1782-1866)(1783-1824) began to write for little children when they scarcely
more than children themselves. Both had an affection for children. Taylor’s were the first poets to
write exclusively for children.
• Edward Lear, 1812-1888 had no literally a forerunner; he was simply himself. At the age of 19
years, he made colored drawings of birds of the London Zoological Society and later he was
employed by the Early Darby to draw pictures of his family. He started his early caricatures with
limericks in his Book of Nonsense published in 1846. Lear has the ability entertain all ages at once.
DEVELOPMENT OF POETRY FOR CHILDREN AND
THEIR POEM MAKERS
Christina Rossetti, 1830-1894 wrote very simple poems for children. She possessed much of the
spiritual quality found in William Blake. She began to write verse when she was still a child and
one of the four talented and artistic children of the Rossetti Family.
• Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894 occupied a unique place as a writer for children. He was
considered as the first true “poet-laureate” of children. A Child’a Garden Verses was not only
regarded as a classic but it represented a standard style and quality for all other writers of
children’s poetry. An only child that’a very delicate and frail child who spent most life in the
coziness of his comfortable home.
• Celia Laighton Thaxter, 1835-1894 was one of the earliest American writers of verse for
children. She is noted for her many beautiful and truthful pictures of birds and their ways in
Stories and Poems.
• Laura Elizabeth Richards, 1850-1943 who was the daughter of Julia Ward Howe, author of The
Battle Hymn of the Republic, was not only a poet but also a musician. She enjoyed all the
benefits of a home of broad culture with fine family. She published several collections of song
and rhymes as well as stories. Mrs. Richard’s verse is appealing to both young and adults.
 DEVELOPMENT OF POETRY FOR CHILDREN AND
THEIR POEM MAKERS
Rose Fyleman, 1877 has been affectionately called “Poet of the Fairies” her first book of poems
for children Fairies and Chimneys was published in 1918. Her poems has the sense of mystery
and enchantment in them which are enjoyed by children, she has also written some amusing
light verse about the modern child and things he is interested in.
• Alan Alexander Milne, 1882-1956 is known more familiarly as A.A Milne he started increase
rhythmic effects as in his “The is work literary work by giving his full attention to the writing
of plays. He started writing his first book of verse when he got married and had his first son.
He is a very competent writer of light verse manufactured many “funny” words to increase
rhythmic effects in his “The Three Foxes”.
• Rachel Field, 1884-1942 has been the most successful in his genre and her collections
contained numerous poems about people and objects belonging to their immediate
environment such as “The Flower-Cart Man”, “Taxi’s”, “Skyscrapers”, “The Cuckoo Shop”,
and many others.
• Dorothy Aldi’s, 1897 has written many short poems for young people choosing the simple and
common domestic scenes and events which she portrays with humor and charm.
DEVELOPMENT OF POETRY FOR CHILDREN AND
THEIR POEM MAKERS
Elizabeth Madox Roberts, 1886-1941 published “Under the Tree” which attracted attention
as the work of an eminent novelist because of the unique quality of the poems. Her
subjects were drawn from very simple country life.
• Dorothy Walter Baruch, 1899 is one of the modern poets for children who has made us of
her knowledge of child psychology in her books like Parents and Children Go to School. In
her verses for children, she used free verse in the child’s own manner of speaking. Some
favorites are “The Merry-Go-Round” and “I Like Automobiles”.
• Mary Ann Hoberman is another modern poet for children. Her collection of poems, Hello
and Goodbye are lyrical amusing and full of laughter. She has also some nonsense poems,
“The Llama who had no Pajama” and “The Folk Who Live on Backward Town”.
• John Carel, has written an engaging book of verse for young children entitled “The
Reason for the Pelican”. He uses imaginary animals with fantastic names such as “The
Saginsack” or the “Bugle-Billed Bazoo”. Some of his best poems are more serious, such as
the simple “Rain Sizes” and the delightful “How to tell the Top of a Hill”.
THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS!!