{"id":1370,"date":"2010-08-18T14:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T14:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1370"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:33:02","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:33:02","slug":"poetry-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1370","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Wednesday?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times Artsbeat online had a lovely little piece<\/a> this morning with a three-year-old reciting Billy Collins’ Litany<\/i>. I’ll leave you to discover that one yourselves, knowing how my poetry peeps love them some Collins. (If you aren’t familiar with the poem, you’ll need to read it<\/a> — three year olds can indeed memorize and recite, but their diction leaves something slightly to be desired.)<\/p>\n

THIS one is my favorite — and somehow, this kid reminds me of Alkelda’s daughter. Can you not see her as equally brilliant, wiggling and reciting poetry on camera? I can.<\/p>\n

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P.S. – There are those who are horrified by this — there’s always someone — and there have been people commenting that this is not a child but an automaton, blah, blah, blah. The fact is that little kids are really<\/i> good at memorizing things, and just because this child’s mother decided that poetry was more worth his time than sixteen verses of There’s A Hole In The Bucket<\/i> or that immortal favorite The Eensy Weency Spider<\/i>, (quite a worthy song, to my mind) doesn’t mean she’s hurting him necessarily.* I am amused by the amusement he finds in the silly assertions of Collins’ poems – silly to him – anyway, and by the drama he finds in Tennyson. Here’s hoping he can remember that one for 8th grade English.<\/p>\n

But, if you prefer to think that this kid’s parents are damaging him and giving him an unhappy childhood, I’ll leave you to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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