is reading poems educational? can u actually learn something from them?

Answer 1

Am not sure if we learn anything from poems, but its easy for kids to remember and helps their intellectual growth. Usually poems introuduce you to stuff, like, Mary had a little lamp, kids can understand what a lamp is in an easy way. If you are asking about poems for kids in higher classes, I dont think they are effective anymore.

Answer 2

MOST DEFINITELY!!!!!!!!!! , just spend a few hours in a Library one day you got the time or are bored.
If you want, ask the librarian for some ideas of poetry from poets of different, eras, and on different subjects.
I would even go so far as to suggest TuPacs couple of books published after his death if you want to get some education about street life in this last century.
Just take my advice and at least read some famous poets from different eras in time and on different subjects and see if you don't find a whole other world that you never knew existed, as well as other thought processes on different subjects that you never took into consideration before ;-)

Answer 3

There is so much you can learn! The technical styles is one but the fact that you can express yourself in so many ways is a large one. Mostly you learn the wisdom behind the writing. Poetry is more mysterious at times too. I can enjoy poetic stories sometimes more than a traditional story. Edgar Allen Poe for example. The tales can be so full of emotion & life. Hope this helps.

Answer 4

Most literary poems are composed with profound meaning and messages, they may either be funny, emotional, or inspirational...they surely have meaning by themsleves that make you reflect to real life...especially when the poem is about life, love and experiences..........and definitely poets spend time to think and express their emotions for people to translate their feelings and thoughts!!!and mind you not all can become poets.this is an innate form of art....it is a skill and God-given talent.......Emily Dickinson is one of the greatest poets with profound meaningful poems focusing on love most especially........and of course who can forget Shakespeare..........

Answer 5

Poetry is language, organized by rhythm. Poems exist for a wide variety of reasons: to entertain, to celebrate, to mourn, to amuse, to feel emotions, and, yes, to educate.

Poems are used by Kindergarten teachers who want to make learning fun.

"The Line Up Poem"
I will not shove,
I will not push,
I will not try to pass.
I will not stay behind the rest,
I'll line up with my class.

http://www.kinderthemes.com/Songsideasandchecklists.html

Poems are used to illustrate historic moments. Consider how Henry Wadsworth Longfellow chose to write about Abraham Lincoln in the first stanza of "Killed at the Ford."

He is dead, the beautiful youth,
The heart of honor, the tongue of truth,
He, the life and light of us all,
Whose voice was blithe as a bugle-call,
Whom all eyes followd with one consent,
The cheer of whose laugh, and whose pleasant word,
Hushed all murmurs of discontent.

http://www.eagleacademy.org/killford.htm

Poems use language to make us think which is what Rudyard Kipling wanted us to do in the poem, "If."

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you.
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;

http://www.whitedovebooks.co.uk/inspiration/poems.htm

Poetry educates by showing us how writers think about the places where we dwell as in Robert Penn Warren's "San Francisco Night Windows."

So hangs the hour like fruit fullblown and sweet,
Our strict and desperate avatar,
Despite that antique westward gulls lament
Over enormous waters which retreat
Weary unto the white and sensual star.
Accept these images for what they are--
Out of the past a fragile element
Of substance into accident.
I would speak honestly and of a full heart;
I would speak surely for the tale is short,
And the soul's remorseless catalogue
Assumes its quick and piteous sum.
Think you, hungry is the city in the fog
Where now the darkened piles resume
Their framed and frozen prayer
Articulate and shafted in the stone
Against the void and absolute air.
If so the frantic breath could be forgiven,
And the deep blood subdued before it is gone
In a savage paternoster to the stone,
Then might we all be shriven.

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/warren/onlinepoems.htm

I hope this helps you. Poetry can be a wonderful companion as well as a wonderful teacher. There are many ways to write a poem. May you be inspired to find Poets and Poems which speak to you.

Answer 6

sure... read "Song of Roland"

its a 10th century epic poem written in French and transllated into English about a couple hundred years ago.

if you think 'knights are cool' this one will open your eyes. Read the whole thing and you will know more about the early middle ages than most of your teachers.

Answer 7

depends on the poet. Try some William Blake a lesson in every poem.

Answer 8

It develops creativity and language skills if you study poems, the more you read them, the more you can write your own poems

Answer 9

Poems tap into peoples emotions. They teach you things about other peoples emotional thoughts.

Answer 10

poems are a form of art. so they are not meant to teach you anything. they are meant to convey a message yet, i find that they can help you realize tings (look at things in a different way) ....and that could be called learning something.