March 21st: World Poetry Day

March is a month full of international days. World’s Poetry Day began being celebrated in 1999 by UNESCO with the aim of supporting linguistic diversity through poetic expression and increasing the opportunity for endangered languages to be heard. The day’s goal is to promote reading and writing poetry throughout the world, from kids to elder people in every situation without any conditions and as UNESCO says »to give fresh recognition and impetus to national, regional and international poetry movements». Poetry is for everyone without economical, social or political situation get in the way. It’s celebrated in 21 of March but the UK celebrates it in the first Tuesday of October.
Poetry has a significant role into international culture of all countries. The civilization of a country begins to »fly» when poetry and literature are a part of it. Poetry shows another level of knowing your native language, a level of cultivation, of development, of increasing and of searching different meanings and uses by combining words that wouldn’t be combined in a serious text or words that can create a picture, a feeling and even another world where everyone has its own fantasy starring at it. By promoting poetry everyone becomes more aware of their own self. We get to know ourselves when we are called to write something that can inspire others to start writing to, something that would bring to others the feeling you have when you write it. Critical thinking is also a big chapter of a human’s development but poetry is one of the main ways for a teenager to start exploring this world. They need to become more independent not only in their obligations but in their thoughts and their own way of thinking. By poetry the feelings are expressed in some words which for many people aren’t ease to understand.
Some of the biggest poets of all time are the Chilian Pablo Neruda, the English William Shakespeare and of course the great American poet Emily Dickinson.
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