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Poems for Big Kids Poetry and Children Poetry and Children Ann Dixon Poetry for children begins as an oral art. Even today, in our media saturated world, nursery rhymes and word play introduce babies and young children to their language and culture. Historically, children’s poetry began orally as well. Used both to instruct and entertain, poetry has shaped generations of children and the literature of childhood as a whole. Before the printing press, hand-produced books were available only to the children of the wealthy. Many primary lesson books were written in rhyme. Most children, lacking these books, instead absorbed whatever appealed to them from the oral literature they heard. Poetic forms of these literary nuggets might include lullabies, work songs, ballads, and nursery rhymes. Elements of poetry, such as alliteration, rhyme, meter, and rhythm aided the memorization and retention of oral literature. Imagery depended not on pictures, which were few, but primarily on the imaginations of listeners in response to the words they heard. As early as the fifteenth century, printers began producing literary texts aimed at children, not to entertain them with stories, but to educate. “Courtesy books,” as they were called, emphasized manners and behavior, often employing rhyme to aid memorization. With the exception of early Latin grammar texts, the first book known to be printed for children was Les Contenances de la Table, published in France around 1487. It conveyed table manner lessons in rhyming quatrains. This excerpt from “Symon’s Lesson of Wisdom for All Manner Children,” from The Babees’ Book, typifies the emphasis on instruction, rather than literary quality: Child, over men’s houses no stones fling Nor at glass windows no stones sling… Child, keep thy book, cap and gloves And all things that thee behoves, And but thou do, thou shalt fare worse And thereto be beat on the bare erse (in Townsend, p. 4). In 1646 John Cotton wrote the first known book for children published in the New World; Milk for Babes, Drawn out of the Breasts of Both Testaments, Chiefly for the Spirituall Nourishment of Boston Babes in either England, but may be of like Use for any Children. A summary of Puritan theology in verse, it begins: Who is the Maker of all things? The Almighty God who reigns on high. He form’d the earth, He spread the sky (in Sutherland, p.45). 9
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