World Poetry Day – 21st March 2022
27 Mar 2022
World Poetry Day is an International Day of Observance that falls on March 21st each year. UNESCO international days are celebrations of different, and important, aspects of life, history and calls to action on many issues. They are for everyone around the globe; an opportunity to link in with others to celebrate a common theme for the benefit of humanity.
World Poetry Day celebrates “one of humanity’s most treasured forms of cultural and linguistic expression and identity.” UNESCO explains that World Poetry Day is the occasion to honour poets, revive oral traditions of poetry recitals, promote the reading, writing and teaching of poetry, foster the convergence between poetry and other arts such as theatre, dance, music and painting, and raise the visibility of poetry in the media.”
Once you have read/listened to the poem, what are your initial thoughts ? e.g.
- What is the poem about?
- What might the poet have been feeling?
- Why did the poet write this poem?
- What did it make you feel?
- Did you like it?
- What did you like about it?
