THE USE OF MAGIC IN CHILDREN POETRY: A THEMATIC STUDY

Rudaina Abdul Razzaq Alkumait
Dr. Lecturer, Tikrit University-College of Education for Women-English Department, Iraq
rudaina63@yahoo.com

Abstract

Children Poetry is very important in the sense that it can be a source of skills as well as information for the children. It helps in creating the image of people, things, society, and concepts in the mind of the children. Imagination is the essential element that children-poetry relies on in inspiring joy and happiness as well as fear and wariness in the child's mind. In this regard, it is a crucial point to tackle it as a subject for discussion and investigation in this paper. The paper hypothesizes that Children-poetry varies from one culture to another but it shares one goal that is providing children with the values and norms of their society regarding subjects, concepts, and ideas. The aim of the paper is to approve the being put hypothesis. Two different poems, by different poets from varied cultures which tackle magic as their primary subject, are handled. "Belief in Magic", a poem written by the American poet, Dean Young and 'Love and Black Magic", a poem written by the Spanish poet, Robert Graves are the scope of the discussion have been chosen to achieve the paper's aim. The paper follows the formalistic approach to analyze the form and the content of the selected poems. It contains an introduction, methodology, discussion, and finally a conclusion that sums up the results that validate the being put hypothesis.


Keywords: children poetry, Robert Graves, Dean Young, Love and Black Magic, Belief in Magic, Magic



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CITATION: Abstracts & Proceedings of ADVED 2016- 2nd International Conference on Advances in Education and Social Sciences, 10-12 October 2016- Istanbul, Turkey

ISBN: 978-605-64453-8-5