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.
  9. Is there danger that one may have too much of a good quality, or is the danger not in having too little of some other quality?
  10. Show how a wide and appreciative reading of poetry makes for a proper balance of temperament.

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