READING POETRY / Ramón Rocha Monroy
is curious that the poetry is the genre most closely tied to the facility to play and fantasize own children, but that reading poetry is not a preference in government education programs. As I said Rafael Alberti, poetry is a way to regain lost innocence. The illuminations are flashes of poetry the primitive and collective soul which children are explicit antennas and transmitters. An additional advantage, since it is an exercise in memory before writing, however does not encourage the mastery of educational reform to encourage poetry reading.
worst thing is that children have access to the knowledge of poetry mema and old, like the Fables, whining to the death of the mother or civic verses, but nobody wants to teach a good poem of Borges and Neruda, Nicanor Eduardo Parra or Mitre, perhaps forever conquer the world of reading.
artificial boom in changes that have the Harry Potter saga or Lord of the Rings, is a fanciful prose existing or invented folklore, but remote and alien. Instead of using the spell of the music the verse, they prefer more visual resources, because only build with the help of multimedia movies abound in virtual effects. Juan Manuel Argüelles
says we live in a world of prose, prose that is not only on their experiences, but also in their patterns of reading. "Poetry, he says, is a genre that many consider complicated and sometimes intractable, and yet, if we did a survey among readers already formed, we could know that a large proportion of them discovered through reading poetry and not always in a book of poems, but in a compendium, in a manual or in those textbooks where a few words what dazzled and made him see the world differently. "
poetry sometimes breaks into the lives of young people through the light creating first love. bursts and falls, and just be like a beautiful memory fact linked words love. The first loved us produce electrical shorts tremors linked to those caused by the reading of good poetry.
dominoes formal education tend not to consider the implications of giving children what Arguelles calls "aesthetically empty text" . You make them buy books by authors of best sellers, instead of entrusting them immortal works rely on his intelligence, his ability to understand and assimilate aesthetics. It is not the same as a dumb child to read the series of The Trojan Horse, a teenager who has been meeting with Steppenwolf, by Herman Hesse. He is a being dissatisfied looking for other ways to access the aesthetics or pure fun. This in turn has been enriched with his first crisis of loneliness that I sign for the rest of his life. Much more if you give a teenager reading the poetry of William Blake or teach him to understand "The Raven" by Poe.
Ramón Rocha Monroy . (Cochabamba, 1950) writer and journalist. His novel Sweet dreams of the skull (prize Guttentag 1983) includes a list of 15 novels selected a meeting of 40 experts convened by the Ministry of Culture. He has also published novels What are the dead alone! , Potosí 1600, Ladies Night , The empty box (Alfaguara Prize 1997), flying low Ando (Guttentag Award 1996) and Yonder . is a columnist for The Times , Review and La Prensa.
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