April is National Poetry Month, and the Liv Northgate Blog has a few ideas to help you celebrate. We are taking ideas from the Academy of American Poets to help you celebrate, so write your own poetry and some this month. We hope that you have an awesome National Poetry Month here in your apartment in Gilbert, AZ!
Poetry Through Cinema
The Academy of American Poets suggests watching a poetry themed movie sometime this month. Our favorite of their movie recommendations is the Dead Poets Society. They say this of the movie: “Robin Williams plays an English teacher in an East Coast boys’ prep school who inspires his students to love poetry, among other life lessons. The film, which popularized the tradition of carpe diem poems, features verse by Frost, Tennyson, and Shakespeare.” Visit Poets.org to find more of the Academy’s movie recommendations.
Read a Poem
Reading poetry is a great way to celebrate National Poetry Month. Read a poem a day for the month of April. We’ll help you get started by featuring one of our favorite poems, “I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud” by William Wordsworth.
I wandered lonely as a Cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and Hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden Daffodils;
Beside the Lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:-
A Poet could not but be gay
In such a jocund company:
I gazed---and gazed---but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude,
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the Daffodils.
Write Your Own Poetry
Learn how to write your own poetry this month. Haikus are a great way to start writing. Haikus are three line poems. The first and last lines are five syllables long, and the middle line is seven syllables long. Visit the site to learn more about haikus and how to write them.
Do you have any poetry tips for us? Let us know in the comments. Thanks for reading our post!
