What poem or play

[busker]

For many this’ll go back decades, but what was starting point for your interest in poetry? What book / play / poem first made a deep impression on you?

For me, it was Prometheus Unbound at age 12. Then Love’s Labour’s Lost, and the two songs at the end.

[wasellajam]

I grew up with an elaborately illustrated Pied Piper, cherished and probable damaged us all for life.
And The Cat in the Hat and all the Seuss rhymers. Then at maybe 10 years old school gave us each a paperback Collected Frost, we studied at least Mending Wall and Road Not Taken. Pretty well hooked by then.

[RiverNotch]

Honestly, Shakespeare in high school (which I believe was more like middle school in the States) was what got me into poetry as poetry, mainly Romeo and Juliet and The Merchant of Venice and how we were made to try out writing in iambic pentameter.

But, like, there was also the copy of Edith Hamilton's Mythology I got in primary school, and also in primary school we were made to read and even memorize whole chunks of the Bible. I suppose that's more literature in general than poetry, though.

[busker]

Honestly, Shakespeare in high school (which I believe was more like middle school in the States) was what got me into poetry as poetry, mainly Romeo and Juliet and The Merchant of Venice and how we were made to try out writing in iambic pentameter.

But, like, there was also the copy of Edith Hamilton's Mythology I got in primary school, and also in primary school we were made to read and even memorize whole chunks of the Bible. I suppose that's more literature in general than poetry, though.

Was this in the Philippines? Quite a Eurocentric syllabus for an Asian country.

[RiverNotch]

Honestly, Shakespeare in high school (which I believe was more like middle school in the States) was what got me into poetry as poetry, mainly Romeo and Juliet and The Merchant of Venice and how we were made to try out writing in iambic pentameter.

But, like, there was also the copy of Edith Hamilton's Mythology I got in primary school, and also in primary school we were made to read and even memorize whole chunks of the Bible. I suppose that's more literature in general than poetry, though.

Was this in the Philippines? Quite a Eurocentric syllabus for an Asian country.

We had English classes and Filipino classes, for English classes we had English literature (though at one point we were made to read Pearl S. Buck, Chinua Achebe, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez....didn't quite finish Marquez, myself xD), for Filipino classes we had Filipino literature (although the selection, for some reason, was pretty narrow).

[alonso ramoran]

for Filipino classes we had Filipino literature (although the selection, for some reason, was pretty narrow).

Colonialism