Do you like reading and listening to poetry?
What role does poetry play in your culture?
What did you think of poetry when you studied it at school?
Do you have a favourite poem? What is it about?
Do you like reading and listening to poetry? What role does poetry play in your culture? What did you think of poetry when you studied it at school? Do you have a favourite poem? What is it about?
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Victoria Vedron
5/4/2010 10:27:51 am
\Nowadays it is almost impossible to imagine our life without books. Perhaps, there are more books on our planet that men alive. I would distinguish books between three classes of them. Firstly, books on different branches of knowledge, works by brilliant minds of mankind. Secondly, textbooks, reference books and numerous dictionaries. And at last, books of all kinds and genres to read at leisure.
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Paraskoviya Moskalenko
5/4/2010 04:08:17 pm
Yes, I do like to read poems. In our culture poetry is very important. On all of our holidays the kids read or memorize a poem. September 1st is a very important day, that’s when the summer ends and the school starts all the students go to school, that is when the students mostly tell poems about school, teachers, classes and many different things. Also, on Christmas, New Year, Easter, and Mother’s Day the kids tell a lot of poems. In my country we have many poets. My favorite poets are; Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Tolstoy, Gogol’ and many more. Most of them are kids’ poets. When I went to school we had to memorize a poem every night, it wasn’t easy but I liked it. Poetry helps your brain to work faster. There is a contest, where kids read a poem and give a presentation, whoever does it the best wins. When I was little I liked poems about nature, seasons, and about the sea. In the Russian literature the poems sound more prettier, and sound better. When I was a teenager I started to like to read poems and stories about love, beauty, and friendship. There are poems for all kinds of events in a lifetime. There are poems about sadness, happiness, weddings, birthdays, holidays and other events that are important to some people. I still like poems and I don’t think that I will stop liking them.
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vlad Golovko
5/5/2010 11:40:31 am
I have to say that I am not a big fan of reading and listening to poetry. Although, in Slavic culture it plays enormous role. When I was at school we had Russian and Ukrainian literature. We had to read a lot of poetry as well as memorize it. I do not have a favorite poem; however, I still remember a lot of poems from school which we had to memorize. I never liked memorizing poems, but I was good at it. In our culture poetry does play big role. For holidays, especially at church kids and adults memorize poems and share it with the rest of the people. Poetry plays huge role because you can learn a lot about the history of the culture. It helps to understand the specific culture when you study poetry.
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Irina T.
5/5/2010 04:24:18 pm
I love poetry a lot. Good poetry is as a healing lotion for my heart. It can send me back in my childhood or forward to my future, travel far away from here in my country or in different part of the world. I like to listen poetry but more than listen, I like to read poetry in a quiet place. There I can draw the picture in my mind what the poet wanted to tell us. Most of all I like picture about nature, art, seasons, music and love. In my culture poetry has an important role. We have many poets that had written a lot of splendid poems. I really love the poetry of Eminescu, Cogbuc, Vieru, Dorz, Blaga, and Alexandri. They wrote extraordinary poems that have great impact on me. I grew up with their poems, I studied them in school, and I memorize and sing them. Poetry is easy to read and memorize for me. We use to memorize it for holidays and for different reception in school and in church. Of course I had my favorite poem and it is about love. For special holiday we have special poems. Some poems are long and some of them are short but the sharp verses express to the reader the When I start to learn English, I start to read English poetry. I found many poets that have written a lot of good and easy to read poetry. The poem that I love the most is Oranges by Gary Soto. It is about the first date of a young boy and girl.
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Shahla A
5/6/2010 12:51:09 pm
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nadia k
5/7/2010 06:31:07 am
Do you like reading and listening to poetry?
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Anatoliy A
5/7/2010 07:47:01 am
Yes I do like to read and listen to poetry. When I still used to live in Ukraine and went to school there I really liked to learn poetry and I learned a lot of Russian and Ukrainian poems. Poetry is very important in our culture everyone admires and respects it. Poetry is something that gets feelings out of humans and puts them into words. You can explain something that you are looking at or some sort of picture that's in your head really good with poems. When I studied poetry at school I thought that it was amazing how the poets wrote so much just about one thing. Also when I read poetry in school it expressed the authors feelings so much I felt like I know what he was feeling when he was writing that poem. Yes I do have a favorite poem I already forgot its name but it is about the river Volga that used to be located in Stalingrad. It is about these people that drag the boats up the river they were called Burlaki, and how they were sitting one night by the fire and saying that they do not want to do this no more they just want to die. These people were sort of like slaves. The author the little boy who saw them I think is probably Lermontov.
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Carmen G
5/8/2010 03:03:37 pm
I don’t like reading that much but I do love listening to poetry it just makes me relax. Poetry plays an important role in Peruvian culture identifying the most extreme nature of Peruvian history. Diverse experimental voices sprung from the gust of Andean society, even today in Peru there are two important poets like Cesar Vallejo, Jose Maria Eguren that had written in their poems the relationship between Hispanic and American Indian cultures, these poems expresses the feeling of Peruvian people based in traditions of Indian culture. Now a day’s several Peruvians poems show the reality, the arts, cuisine, and Peruvian culture. Peru is something that can come with the process of enculturation with education. When I was in high school the poem I listen to the most was of Cesar Vallejo (Los Heraldos Negros) because it played an important role in my life. I thought poetry is the source and the end of my life. I still think poetry is important in my life and will always be forever, I can say this because I have never forgotten my favorite poem and goes like this.
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Orkideh z.
5/8/2010 04:07:26 pm
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Diana M.
5/9/2010 03:40:35 am
I really like reading and listening poetry. It makes me relax. In Ukraine poetry plays a very big role. When I was at school, teachers made as memorize a lot of poetry which I still remember. I could memorize them very easy. I don’t even know why but I sometimes could finish the end of the line without reading it, just feeling that it would be the right word to finish this line. We have a lot of famous poetry writers such as Taras Shechenko, Ivan Franko, Lesia Ukrayinka, Marko Vovchok, Mihailo Kotsubinskiy, Pavlo Tichina and many others. I just love to read their poetry. Also, we had Russian poetry class and the poetry from the poetry writers all over the world. I enjoyed all these classes. When I was at school, there wasn’t any day when I didn’t visit the library. Every evening I had to read something, so I read a lot of books from different poetry writers. What did I think about it when I studied it at school? Well, I thought it was fun. I do have a lot of favorite poems, but one of them is called “I was thirteen” by Taras Shevchenko. Here is a little bit of it. It is about one orphan boy enjoys the nature around, and then feels sad because he has nothing, no home, no anybody to love him…
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Liavon Sauko
5/9/2010 10:02:26 am
I like reading and listening to poetry. The reason why I like it is because it sounds nice. I like to listen to poetry more than I like reading it. The reason for that is I might not know how fast or with what tone to read it. A poem sounds so much better when the author reads it, because they know exactly how to read it. I didn’t think of poetry that much before I learned about it in school. After I had learned more about it, I started to like it more. I even wrote some of my own poetry before. I have a couple of poems that I really like, but the poem that I like the most is one that I have written. Maybe that’s why I like it so much, because it’s my own and I know exactly what it means. My favorite poem is a romantic one. I call it “Wish.” The poem goes something like this: “Wish I wasn’t here right now, wish I was with you somehow, wish I could be next to you, wish there was something I could do, wish that somehow I could fly, wish I could be an Angel so high, wish I never made you cry, wish you could see that I try, wish this pain will somehow end, wish you could be my best friend, wish tomorrow comes real soon, wish we could live on the moon, wish I could hold your soft arm, wish I could protect you from harm, wish we didn’t have to cry, wish we didn’t have to die, wish I was with you forever, wish I hadn’t said never, wish my dreams could come true, wish I was right there next to you, wish the sky was always blue, wish you knew that I Love You”. This is my favorite poem that I wrote. I think that this poem is really nice and romantic. Every time that I read this poem it makes me smile and feel warm inside. It’s because of school that I am able to write poems like this.
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Francisca Flores
5/9/2010 01:46:03 pm
I not really like the poetry, because in my culture not are so popular. I have my a friend who like write and read poetry. When I read poetry I like but I don’t have books. I don’t have any kind of favorite poem. I think the poetry is for people who have the time or real like poem. I feel very good for the person who like read or write poem.
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Biniam H
5/9/2010 02:30:07 pm
Yes, I like to read poetry. I am really love of poetry work because it can express different kind of emotion. For instance, It can be about love it can be about nature it can about culture etc. Even though I ‘m not writer of poetry I enjoy it. When I was in my country I used to go to artist club a place that perform poem or poetry every year . I used to listen some of powerful poetic writings on that place with great admiration. Also I bought some collection poetry book .I don’t have enough words to express my feelings about it. It is a book that you cannot get enough of with just one reading. It is rather a book that I you must enjoy slowly as you read and enjoy each piece with fascination and contemplation. Anyone who pays attention from the past and present, and is concerned about its future, finds a very powerful connection with the culture. In addition, I admire like Shakespeare, Dickenson etc ..the famous artists it is wonderful poetry. Finally, my favorite poem was by Daniel holobowicz that I remember.
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Raymundo Luengas
5/9/2010 02:53:16 pm
I like reading and listening to poetry, but I am not a reading person. I have read a few poetry books. I like better to listen to poetry because I don’t read too much. I know many good poems all of them in Spanish. I like to listen to music and a lot of the music is poetry. I like so much to listen love poems. A lot of the poetry has been written to love or women and you enjoy more this poetry when you have fallen in love. Poetry in my country, Mexico, plays a really important role. I think every country has poetry because you don’t need to go to school or have a degree to be a good poet. I have met people who didn’t go to school, but they are really good in poetry. We have great poets in Mexico like: Octavio Paz, Juan Rulfo, Carlos Fuentes, Amado Nervo, just to mention a few. I think poetry reflects the culture of every country. When I was in the school in my country, I did not enjoy the poetry or I did not understand it, I read it because it was one of the topics that we had to study. I started to enjoy the poetry when I fell in love and when I came to this country because I started to miss my country and my family, specially my parents. I don’t have a favorite poem, for me it depends in what mood I am.
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Dzianis R
5/9/2010 03:43:45 pm
“Poetry is what gets lost in translation” Robert Frost. I like reading and listening to the poetry. For me, poet is an artist who, in stead of brushes, expresses himself through words and sounds that evoke people’s emotional response. Poetry plays a very important role in Russia, the country with a rich cultural past. I remember my high school literature teacher who always had told us that modern Russian literature started with poetry. In literature classes we had to read and memorized a lot of poems of such a wonderful poets like Aleksandr Pushkin, Aleksandr Blok, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Anna Ahmatova who teach us morality, spirituality and sense of beauty in the world. Among many Russian poets that I like Vladimir Mayakovsky is my favorite. Mayakovsky was a Russian and Soviet poet and playwright, among the foremost representatives of early-20th century Russian Futurism. I have always liked combination of satire, humor and wisdom in his poems. Nowadays we live in the world of technology where a lot of people prefer television over books but don’t forget that poetry helps your body release tension and relax your mind. So, instead of feeling like you are spinning and the world isn't, you can sit back and ‘watch it all’ while reading or listening the poem.
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Viktor S.
5/9/2010 03:49:43 pm
One wise man said that poetry as wings which lift up the soul to heaven. I like poetry but not everyone. It is important for me when the poetry have deep contents and the author gives and opens to reader his or her feelings and knowledge of the world. When I went to school, I liked to read and listening poetry. We studied a lot of Ukrainian and Russian poetry such us Ivan Kotlyarevsky, Taras Shevchenko, Lesya Ukrainka. These authors liked Ukraine, history of Ukraine, people, and freedom. They were really patriots of Ukraine. My favorite poem is Eneyida by Ivan Kotlyaravsky and it was published in 1798. This poem is a parody of Virgil’s Aeneid , where Ivan Kotlyarevsky transformed the Trojan heroes into Zaporozhian Cossacks. Kotlyarevsky’s Eneyida has been called “an encyclopaedia of Ukrainian life” of the 18th century by recent historians of Ukrainian literature. In my childhood I read a lot of about Cossacks life and it was my favorite theme. Some parts of this poem I memorized when I was a student at high school and I still remember today. Kotlyarevsky’s Eneyida is not a dead classic on a dusty shelf but a piece of writing which is very much alive and enjoyed. In my culture poetry plays a big role and is an integral part of Ukrainian soul. Many poems which were written by unknown poets became the folk – songs and Ukrainian people remember and sing them in modern life.
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Halyna S.
5/9/2010 04:06:39 pm
“I will live! Get out sorrowful thoughts!” These words belong famous Ukrainian poet Lesya Ukrainka. Why did she write this? What did she feel when she wrote that? When I went at school in my childhood every year we learned poetries and lyrical verses which were written by different poets and writers. However, the lyrical verses by Lesya Ukrainka always touched my heart and soul but for a long time I didn’t understand this expression and forgot it. After twenty years, when I was at hospital after surgery I felt very weak and sick, I recollected this expression: “I will live! Get out sorrowful thoughts!” In that time I completely understood this expression and feeling. These words Lesya Ukrainka wrote when she was laid up and couldn’t move. She wrote under the pseudonym Lesya Ukrainka, her name is Larysa Petrivna Kosach. Larysa was a cheerful and talented girl. She began to play the piano when she was five and wrote the first verse when she was eight. At that time she got sick: it was bones tuberculosis. After that her life changed. She didn’t go to school and her mother was her teacher. Nevertheless the moment was not propitious, she studied different languages such as Bulgarian, Italian, Polish, German, Spanish, English, French, Latin, and ancient Greek during the long dark nights. She learned geography, she liked history and arts. Lesya Ukrainka was a very good educated and intelligent person. When she was nineteen she wrote poem for her piano and talked with it as with best friend: my old chap! I must leave you for a long time… After that she never played the piano. It is my favorite poem. Very often she used words wings and song because it was her dream to fly up under her sick body and to become a song. In 1913 when she was forty two she died. A lot of streets and boulevards in Ukraine were named in honor her. Two hundred hryvnia bill has her image and commemorative coin was made in honor her but it is more important that Ukrainian people remember and love works by Lesya Ukrainka. I like her attitude to life and she never complained of hard life. I like to read her poetries and verses because they give me good spirit and pleasant thoughts.
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Svitlana V.
5/9/2010 04:19:27 pm
I like to read books, but i don't have enough time for that. Also, i like to read some poems. Since i was a teenager i have loved love poetry. In high school we had to study them. The authors of these poems are Ivan Franco, Alexandr Pushkin, Lesya Ukrainka. Also, i like poems of Taras Shevchenko. His poems about people who were slaves and worked hard. He also was a slave. In his poems he was writing against people who had slaves and for that he was sent to prison. But he got his freedom during his life.
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Liliya Sira
5/9/2010 04:29:13 pm
Poetry is a most beautiful way to speak your mind. There are so many words but often never enough to say what is in our heart or soul. A good poem can bring deep emotions to the listener make him experience the poem and everything the poet put in it.
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Nadiia Noga
5/9/2010 04:34:59 pm
Yes,I really like to read and listen to poetry because most of the time poetry has to rhyme and its is very awesome to see what words a person could come up with to rhyme with the poem itself.In my culture poetry is probably in the top ten things what are the best things in your culture.Poetry is favored by the people in my culture because there are a lot of poetry writers in my culture and people who read their poems are really interested in them and their poems that they made up.When I was still in school we did have to study poetry and at first to me its seemed as if poetry was too boring and lame.Although,when we kept on studying and studying poetry I had some homework to write my own poem so after that I liked how I wrote my poem and I started to like poetry.I started to learn more stuff about poetry and then I made up my own poems and even verses for church that I said.I do have a favorite poem and it is written in Russian it's about a dark night and it's very interesting.Those are some things that i think of poetry.
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leslie M.
5/9/2010 05:08:23 pm
Professor: Mary Selseleh
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Marina F
5/10/2010 07:36:39 am
I don't like to read or listen to poetry. I guess that is because I don't really understand it. In my native country in school we had to study poems. It was a part of homework. I did not like to study them, and I don't remember any of them now.
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Tabitha K.
5/10/2010 10:19:22 am
I do like reading books and reading poetry. But I don't have the time to read. Poetry does play a part in my culture. My grandfather from my dads side reads a lot of literature and he also wrote some poems. My dads cousin also likes to write religion and nature poems. The poems that she write are some with rhythmic.
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Simona D.
5/11/2010 01:02:18 pm
I really like poetry. I enjoy reading them or listen to people that know how to read a poem. It helps me relax. When I was in school, I used to read and memorize a lot of poems. In my country we have many poets and mostly of them are very good. I like reading poems written by Mihai Eminescu, George Cosbuc, Nichita Stanescu. For me it is quite hard to understand a poem in English. Even if I understand the meaning, it doesn’t give me the same feelings that I have when I read a poem written in my country where I was born. One of my favorite poems was written by Mihai Eminescu:
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Andrew
6/9/2010 02:22:41 am
I've enjoyed reading some of the poems that you folks have written. Some are amazing. Ilove this poem from Emily Dickinson about nature that I'm going to share with you. She's my favorite poet.
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