To Wikipedian’s “Poetry as an art form predates literacy. Poetry was employed as a means of recording oral history, storytelling (epic poetry), genealogy, and law.
As a result many of the poems surviving from the ancient world are a form of recorded cultural information about the people of the past, and their poems are prayers or stories about religious subject matter, histories about their politics and wars, and the important organizing myths of their societies….”
Poetry transfers cultural information from generation to generation, passing along imagery that’s invokes feelings. Do you remember your favorite poem or reading your favorite poem to your students? One of my favorite memories is reading Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends.
Where the Sidewalk Ends is just one of the poems you can find on Shel Silverstein's new interactive site. Filled with poems, teacher and parent resources and even a place to send an Shel 'e-card' to your friend.
This site will preserve Silverstein’s work for generations to come in the digital medium.
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