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Mr Grey Reflects About Poetry |
Over dinner, a friend once asked me a shocking question. What is poetry anyway?
Then, even worse, what makes a poem great?
Mentally I reached for my favourite quotations; Robert Frost's ‘poetry is what is left out in translation’, Louis Zukovsky's ‘poetry is a function whose lower limit is speech and whose upper limit is song’, and a recent addition to the stockpile, Veronique Tadjo's ‘poetry is the shortest road between us’. But with that last one we're already employing metaphor - getting poetic to say what poetry is.
I had the same problem with my own off-the-cuff attempt; ‘if prose is the three-course meal we're eating, then poetry is the glass of wine.’ No. No good. He didn't want more metaphors. The best answer I have seen a poet give to the question ‘What is poetry’ was simply to read another poem. Perhaps I should have followed that example, but my friend had stung me into attempting a non-poetic definition of poetry.
Poetry may be many things. It might be a highly musical form of language, metrical, playing with sound in various ways - .ie. some form of verse. But this is only sufficient (not necessary) to calling it poetry.
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Year Three/Four Busy With Assesment |
Hasn’t the year flown by!
Well, it is that time of year again and we have been very busy with completing assessment activities in English and Maths.
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Year 1MP Become Computer Savy |
Over the last week, the year one children have been working very hard at finishing off their Australian Unit. They had to select the tools that the first aboriginal people would have used to paint with and then they had to paint a boomerang with the correct colours.
Liberty did some extra work at home and made a painting on a canvas using mud just like the aboriginals. Fantastic effort, Liberty.
We have been investigating volume this week and looking at how many cups fill different sized containers. Which ones hold more or less than another? The children love to investigate with hands-on materials.
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