What is Poetry?

Think back to your early childhood, and try to remember the first poem you ever heard. What are your poetic memories? When you were a small child, you may have heard some of these lines:

"Peter, Peter pumpkin eater, had a wife and couldn't keep her,
He put her in a pumpkin shell, and there he kept her very well."

Song lyrics are poetry too. Do you remember this verse from your childhood?

"Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow,
and everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go."

Write a journal entry about your earliest memories of poetry. You should consider the following questions:

• Who introduced you to poetry?
• What types of poetry did you hear as a child?
• Are there any poems you still remember?

Once you have completed your journal entry, please save it with a file name of mod5_poetry and submit it to the journal dropbox.