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“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.” — William Wordsworth
World Poetry Day is celebrated annually on 21st March to preach about poems, their beautifulness and application to everyday life.The first World Poetry Day is believed to have been celebrated on 21 March, 2000 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). In a session held in Paris in 1999, it was decided to dedicate a day to discuss the importance of poetry with the aim of supporting linguistic diversity through poetic expression and increasing the chances for endangered languages to be heard. Poetry day is celebrated to honour great poets, preserve poems, promote poem writing, emphasize the amalgamation of poetry and other arts like theatre, dance, music and painting and to make poetry a popular form of literary canon.
Poems are a form of the literary genre in which one expresses their own feelings and thoughts, which are perceived by the reader and they express the same feelings. Poems are not just words arranged in lines, poems are a part of our life. Poems act as a catalyst for the outer world and serve as a dichotomy between the real and fictional world. The day encourages us to return to the tradition of poetry readings. The day aims for awareness and appreciation of poems and poets.
Caedmon’s Hymn is considered to be the first English poem to be recorded in the Anglo Saxon Period. Geoffrey Chaucer is the Father of English Poetry. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio is rightfully said to be the first Indian Poet.Some of greatest poets are Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, William Blake, William Wordsworth, T.S. Elliott, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Robert Green, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Pablo Neruda, Toru Dutt, Rabindranath Tagore, Arun Kolatkar, Jayanta Mohapatra etc.
Some of very famous English Poems are:-
The Road not Taken by Robert Frost
Daddy by Sylvia Plath
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Flea by John Donne
Ozymandias by Persy Byshe Shelley
The Songs of innocence by William Blake
The waste land by T.S. Elliott
Because I couldn't stop for Death by Emily Dickinson
Ode to West Wind by John Keats
Some of famous Indian Poems are:
The Bus by Arun Kolatkar
Hunger by Jayanta Mohapatra
In the Bazaars of Hyderabad by Sarojini Naidu
Night of the Scorpion by Nissim Ezekiel
Land's End by Adil Jussawalla
Unclaimed by Vikram Seth
An Introduction by Kamala Das
This World Poetry Day, try to read at least two poems that fascinates you, it can be of any language. Incase you're a poet, do share your poems with us and let the world know how great of a poet you are.
