Poetry Classics

Poetry is not a topic that interested me very much. However, I am beginning to find it necessary and even enjoyable. (We can't always love everything, can we?) I know that most songs are poems and so that has intrigued me enough to spark my interest. My oldest child loves poetry and even wrote notebooks of poems herself. My son writes some songs once in awhile and so I can see that my children need these classics even if they are not personal favorites.

Poetry from Thomas Jefferson Education for Teens:

• Best Loved Poems of the American People by Hazel Felleman
• Sonnets by Shakespeare
• Poetry and Mathematics by Scott Buchanan

I had never thought of poetry and mathematics being similar topics, but I can now see that the rhythmic quality of poetry does have ma mathematical applications. A very interesting topic of study.

We also added:

• The Great Ideas Syntopicon, volume 2, Chapter 69: Poetry - from the Great Books of the Western World set.

As in Mathematics where we recommend the Syntopicon for a place of study, we highly recommend the chapter on Poetry for deeper consideration. There are several pages of explanation of what poetry is, how it is an "art" and how it is language, philosophy, and history. Next are oodles of references for further study on the subject of poetry from the great authors and thinkers of the western hemisphere.