Tag: poetry

Lego Blocks and Buildings: Does art need structure?

Oct 9, 2021

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Jeyapaul Caleb

During my Undergraduate years, I dabbled with quite a bit of poetry and especially the spoken word variety. One of the recurring ideas I used to think about during those days were about rhymes and how forced rhymes are really bad. As a Literature student, I also studied about rhythm and meter and I always…
Hitler, Churchill, Kardashian, and why we study poetry

Sep 30, 2021

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Jeyapaul Caleb

A few months ago I was gripped by an almost existential question – why do we teach poetry. I call this existential because as an English teacher (in-training), teaching poetry was a large part of what I had chosen to do for the rest of my life. And yet, try as I might, I found…