She moves among the things of life and accounts them all her
friends and companions. She knows their moods and their language and
with them holds intimate communion. They smile upon her because she can
reciprocate their smiles. Life to her is a buoyant, a joyous experience
each hour of the day because the poet has poured into her spirit its
fuller, deeper meanings.
=The teaching.=--And because the poet has touched her spirit with the
wand of his power the waters of life gush forth in sparkling abundance.
And children come to the fountain of her life and drink of its waters
and are thereby refreshed and invigorated. Then they smile back their
gratitude to her in their exuberance of joyous life.
QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES
1. What is poetry?
2. What is the purpose of rhyme?
3. May writing have the essentials of poetry and yet have no regular
rhythm? What of the Psalms?
4. Why is poetry especially valuable to the teacher?
5. Show how some poem other than those mentioned in the chapter teaches
a lesson or gives an inspiration.
6. Name, if you can, some methods of treatment that cause poetry to fail
to affect the lives of the pupils as it should.
7. Suggest uses of poetry and the treatment that will insure the right
results.
8. Is there danger that a teacher may become too appreciative or
susceptible--too poetic in temperament? Recall observations of those who
were either too much so or too little.
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