Has your sports team ever lost a game? And did you write about it in a poem?
You didn’t?
Well, Ernest Thayer did in the now-famous poem “Casey at the Bat.” You can read the history of the poem and the poem itself here.
October 2 is National Poetry Day, and recently the theme was “Remembering,” in which amateur and famous poets write to remember a special moment or a meaningful time in their lives.
Poetry captures our feelings.
Poetry can sum up our feelings with just a few words. One poem, “Dear Mug,” describes a favorite mug and what it felt like to lose it. Many writers use poetry to express a longing for something, as Thomas Hood does in “I Remember, I Remember.” Try reading it out loud to see if you can hear his desire for his younger days.
Now it’s your turn: On the theme of remembering, write a poem on that idea. Thayer wrote a poem to remember a losing game, another poet remembers an old mug in “Dear Mug,” and Thomas Hood remembers his lost youth in “I Remember, I Remember.” What will you remember in your poem?
