Beautiful rhyming lines are a great way to congratulate a loved one on their birthday, express admiration and gratitude. Only talented and gifted people are capable of writing poetry. This world holiday is dedicated to them. Poetry Day brings together authors around the world. Its main goal is to introduce people to beauty, giving young talents the opportunity to express themselves in the best possible way. The event is celebrated annually on March 21.
history of the holiday
The history of celebrating this event goes back to 1938. The author of the idea of founding the celebration is a poetess from Ohio - Tessa Sweezy Webb. Under her initiative, the holiday was celebrated for the first time on October 15. It was dedicated to the birthday of the famous ancient Roman poet named Virgil. In 1951 of the last century, it became national in the USA. 38 states of America and Mexico joined the solemn event. It received official world status at the 30th UNESCO meeting. It is supported by the resolution adopted on November 15, 1999.
For your information, the UNESCO decision says that it often answers the most pressing and deepest spiritual questions of modern people - but for this purpose it is necessary to attract the broadest public attention to it. It was first celebrated on a relatively large scale in March 2000. This Day serves to create a positive image in the media of poetic art, which is open to people.
Among other things, it is thanks to the celebration of World Poetry Day that each creator has an excellent opportunity to express themselves to small publishing houses, whose efforts make it possible to bring the living work of modern poets to mass readers, as well as to literary circles that revive the eternal tradition of beautiful rhyming lines.
Imagine our life without poetry... Without holiday greetings, without songs, without Pushkin, Lermontov, Shakespeare, modern authors... It will be a boring life without an explosion of emotions expressed in simple letters on paper, without that little mysticism when the same words, but written in a certain order, can move you to tears or leave you completely indifferent. The power of words has a special energy that captivates and subjugates our imagination. In order to attract public attention to poetry as a source of answers to many questions of humanity, as an art that is completely open to people, at the 30th session of UNESCO in 1999, it was decided to celebrate World Poetry Day on March 21 of each year. On this day, courses of lectures, author readings, and presentations of new poetic literature are held all over the world.
Happy Beautiful Poetry Day,
Sometimes a little sad
But always unique
And immortal from the start!
Let the poems excite the soul,
Makes you smile
Become more thoughtful and better
Plunge into a beautiful world!
On Poetry Day I wish
Inspiration and dreams!
I send you a ray of happiness
And the radiance of bright stars!
May poetry give you
Many sweet moments.
Let it invigorate and inspire,
Pointing out the route to goodness!
To the poets of the world - the nightingales of love,
To those who weave wreaths from ordinary words,
Bless their souls, Lord,
Add some gentle, poetic talents!
Give them happiness, joy and peace
Leave it for those who peacefully plow the land,
The poets of the world will all be with You,
Having drunk the power of the Divine cup!
Let the sun shine for you, let the thunder roar,
Everything in the world is sweet to the poet's soul,
Great success is flying towards you,
To make your soul ache with happiness!
All poets, poetesses
Today I want to congratulate
Wish you inspiration,
Loudly glorify your talent.
Let the rhyming lines
Born from the soul
Let your poems always
People really like it.
Let the muse come more often
Let her live with you
Let him throw up thoughts
So that your eyes burn with excitement.
Poetry is truly beautiful
All phrases are harmoniously intertwined!
Poetry, like the sun, shines clearly,
So that people's souls become clear!
Let poetry awaken in everyone
Emotionally stimulating cocktail
And the one who reads it thoughtfully,
He will understand what the author’s goal was!
Poetry sometimes touches the soul,
So much so that prose won’t take you in life,
Throws you out of the heat and straight into the cold,
After all, it is in poetry that the soul lives!
Happy World Poetry Day
I congratulate you today,
The heart beats in ecstasy
Let it be from poetic phrases.
Lines of beautiful lyrics
Let them disturb your soul,
Treating worries
All misfortunes and dramas.
A moment for poetry
Let it be sometimes
Beckons into the world of beautiful poems
Let her have her own line.
There is tenderness and pressure in her,
Strength and expression.
It's impossible to live without her,
After all, she is poetry.
Happy poetry day today
I congratulate you.
More magical lyrics
I wish it from the bottom of my heart.
Let the rhyming lines
The soul is subtly touched,
Let sadness and all problems
They will drown in those lines.
Who poetry
Does not know,
Beauty
Does not understand.
Happy poetry day to you
We congratulate you,
Loving!
What decorates this boring world?
What makes him kinder for a moment?
Just a slight interweaving of rhymes
It will carefully warm hearts and souls!
On Poetry Day I wish you bright dreams,
To bring inspiration and joy,
And so that faith, tenderness and love
They kept you from all the vanities of the world!
Being a poet sometimes hurts
Taking phrases from the heart...
You can’t help but be responsible for everything,
Yes, passing everywhere along the edge,
The world is reasonable, but stingy in soul,
And feelings are completely in short supply.
After all, indifference is a great evil,
We need protection again!
When love comes to victory
...and the day of poetry will begin
All neighbors will become family,
Suddenly everyone's youth will return!
“Every poem is a veil stretched over the edges of words. These words shine like stars, and because of them the poem exists.” The opinion of Alexander Blok, a wonderful Russian poet, will certainly coincide with the point of view of anyone who is naturally talented and writes poetry with enthusiasm. Unfortunately, today poetic art does not have the same value that “music of the soul” acquired in the era of Alexander Pushkin or Anna Akhmatova. However, there is still hope for the revival of past traditions, because Every year on March 21, authors and readers celebrate the holiday, designed to remind the inhabitants of the planet about the existence of the Beautiful World.
history of the holiday
The holiday on March 21, World Poetry Day, was established not so long ago: in 1999, in the capital of France, within the framework of the 30th UN General Assembly. Events dedicated to the newly created World Poetry Day were also held there. The main goal of the annual World Poetry Day, first of all, is to introduce modern people who are far from romance and lyrical thinking to the art of poetry. After all, it is known that the problem of a dying culture is becoming more acute every year.
In addition, due to the popularization of market relations, poetry is considered simply unprofitable from a commercial point of view, and therefore superfluous in the list of spheres of human activity. Therefore, World Poetry Day is needed by society in order to dispel pessimistic misconceptions.
The holiday of March 21 - World Poetry Day - is a real opportunity to show your creative abilities so that others learn about the talent of a nearby, unknown poet.
As part of this wonderful spring holiday, thematic events are held on March 21, where an already established writer can communicate with a novice author, and the latter can learn a lot of useful things from a conversation with a more experienced colleague.
Representatives of organizations such as creative clubs and small publishing houses get a chance to offer their services to everyone in need of promoting poetic works and become a meeting place for people of art.
In Russia, World Poetry Day receives a lot of attention. It has already become a tradition to celebrate this holiday with the active support of the Taganka Theater. And a few years ago, celebrations began to take place in other cultural organizations: for example, at the State Center for Contemporary Art. Poetry evenings, where authors publicly perform their best works, intellectual competitions on poetic themes - all this takes place every year on the holiday of March 21 for more than 10 years.
The emergence and development of poetry
To confirm their words, the ancestors of modern Scandinavians told a legend about two magical peoples opposing each other - the Vanir and the Aesir. When the irreconcilable enemies were tired of endless wars, they concluded a truce, sealing it with the creation of the wise dwarf Kvasir from his own saliva. However, the phenomenal knowledge of the man-made creature in all areas of knowledge did not please two residents - Galar and Fyalar. The cunning people decided to kill the sage, which they did not fail to do. The scoundrels placed the blood of the dead know-it-all in a cauldron and added honey. The resulting mixture was called “the honey of poetry,” and anyone who tasted the wonderful drink acquired the talent of a poet...
Well, what do scientists say? Experts in the field of historical science attribute the composition of the first poetic work to the priestess En-hedu-an, the daughter of the Sumerian ruler. It was a hymn in honor of the gods. The historian Thomas Love Peacock tried to divide the entire period of the existence of poetry into several eras. In total, he got four time periods, each of which differed from the previous one in features unique to it.
According to Peacocke, poetry appeared long before the advent of writing. The earliest poetic forms were primitive odes glorifying warriors performing feats, ruling the people and other prominent personalities. This was the Iron Age of poetry. After it came a golden era, the characteristic features of which included praise not of living ancestors, but of great ancestors, figurative language, originality of poetic turns, and the appropriate level of knowledge of the authors. During this period, the poets Homer, Sophocles, etc. worked.
The Silver Age included the development of two types of poetry: original, with the use of satirical and didactic notes, and imitative, consisting in a peculiar processing of varieties of poems of the previous era.
The final stage was the Copper Age of the art of creating “music of the soul,” the end of which was marked by the advent of the dark era of the Middle Ages. Afterwards, as Thomas Love Peacock argues, poetry only returned to periods already passed, without making the slightest attempt to give humanity something new.
Poems and modernity
Today's society perceives poetic works differently than the society of past centuries. There is less and less meaning in poetry, more and more obviously inappropriate epithets and metaphors, and the idols of youth are increasingly becoming authors who are fluent in writing obscene poetry. But even in the current situation, it cannot be said that “music of the soul” has outlived its usefulness. It’s enough to look at large poetry Internet portals like “Stihi.ru”, “Poeziya.ru”, etc. to understand: in our country (I think in the world too) there are many amazing poets, but most of them are unknown to readers printed publications... However, every author “of the people” always has a chance to express himself at a higher level, to go beyond the network space - although, mostly, not without attracting funds. However, there are often exceptions here, which is good news.
Poetry is an original language, understandable to everyone, but suitable for explanation only to a select few. Poems are not just rhymed lines built taking into account a certain rhythm, but an indicator of the level of public culture. Dedicate the day of March 21 to reading lyrical truths, and you will feel a symphony of light flowing into your heart. And perhaps you will understand how right Rasul Gamzatov was, who wrote the following poem:
“Poetry, you are not the servant of the strong,
You protected those who were humiliated
You covered for everyone who was offended
I saw those in power as an enemy.
Poetry, you and I don’t suit us
Raise your honest voice for the strong,
You can't look like a bride
Which self-interest leads to the crown"
We congratulate all connoisseurs of high culture and creativity on March 21, World Poetry Day. Poetry is our cultural past, present and future. Poetry makes us connoisseurs of kind and polite words; poetry instills in us restraint, respect for people, and teaches us to value human feelings and relationships.
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World Poetry Day is celebrated on March 21 every year. Poetry is probably one of the most brilliant achievements of mankind. To pour out your feelings in poetic form, to capture your worldview in rhyme, to dream about the future and remember the past, while simultaneously addressing millions and remaining alone with yourself - only poetry, the greatest of the arts created by man, is capable of this.
Not many become great and famous poets, but many have tried to write poetry at least once in their lives. After all, most people are far from alien to those “beautiful impulses of the soul” that prompt a person to take a pen, a piece of paper and start creating.
The magical power of the poetic word can have a huge impact on any person. Let's remember that the first verses that every person heard in his life were the words of a lullaby. This is truly the brightest and most beautiful poetry.
HISTORY OF WORLD POETRY DAY
For the first time, the initiative to establish the holiday was taken by the American poetess Tesa Webb back in the mid-30s of the 20th century. She proposed celebrating International Poetry Day on October 15, in honor of the birth date of the famous poet and philosopher Virgil. It should be noted that her proposal found a positive response in the hearts of many people: by 1951, on October 15, National Poetry Day was celebrated not only in 38 US states, but also in European countries. The celebrations were of an unofficial nature, and the date of their holding was in no way recorded in the calendar of memorable days.
Only on November 15, 1999, UNESCO, at the 30th conference, adopted a resolution on the establishment of an international day, which was supposed to “breathe a second life” into the world poetic movement. The holiday was celebrated for the first time on March 21 in 2000, in Paris, where UNESCO headquarters is located.
The date, March 21, the day of the spring equinox in the northern hemisphere, was chosen as a symbol of the renewal of nature and the creative nature of the human spirit.
The main goal of International Poetry Day was to emphasize the greatest importance that literature plays in the cultural life of modern society, to unite poets from all over the world and give them the right and opportunity to express themselves!
It is believed that the most ancient hymn poems were created in the 23rd century BC. The author of the poems is the poetess-priestess En-hedu-ana, about whom all that is known is that she was the daughter of the Akkadian king Sargon, who conquered Ur (territory of Iran). En-zhedu-ana wrote about the moon god Nanna and his daughter, the goddess of the morning star Inanna. The hymns of Enheduanna were considered sacred.
Until the Renaissance, the poetic form was revered in Europe as one of the main conditions of beauty and was practically the only tool for transforming words into art. In Russian literature during the “golden age” of Russian literature, all fiction literature was often called poetry, in contrast to non-fiction.
WHAT AND HOW POETRY EXPRESSES
The word "poetry" comes from the Greek. poieo - create, create, build, create.
At all times, people loved and believed poets. After all, poetry is created by the feelings, emotions, and imagination of the poet. The ancient Greeks meant human speech in all its manifestations by poetry. This includes prose, theatrical recitation, inspired speech, philosophical debate and, of course, poetry. Currently, poetry seems to be something beautiful and unusual, and this is actually true. Only those who know how to see the sublime behind the ordinary, can immerse themselves in an imaginary world, and have a subtle mental organization and depth of feelings are capable of writing poetry.
Poetry allows us to enjoy the word, gives birth to strong, heartfelt words that have a special energy that subjugates our imagination and carries us along. The poet breathed this great power into them, and he draws it from the world around us, perceiving and feeling the power of the wind and sun, hearing the melody of rushing waves and rustling forest, finding it in the disturbing tension of love.
After all, the poet looks at our world completely differently and explains it in clear and inspired images. Our beautiful Russian language owes the appearance of many words to writers and poets. The word “substance” was invented by Lomonosov, “industry” belongs to Karamzin, and “bungling” to Saltykov-Shchedrin. Thanks to the poetic insight of Igor Severyanin, we became acquainted with the word “mediocre”.
Poetry is the eternally young, reverent and beautiful love of humanity! There is no people on our planet who are not familiar with it.
Of course, poets have varying degrees of talent, but sometimes geniuses like Pushkin are born, who give humanity immortal works that have confounded people’s imaginations for centuries and forced them to think and feel. Poets remain living witnesses of time.
If we step into the abyss of beautiful words, a completely new world will open up before us!
ETERNAL ART
Poetry has lived, lives and will live indefinitely. If earlier these were complex works of ancient Greek poets, where wordplay and associations confused and confused the thoughts of readers, then this was later embodied in the poetry of the Middle Ages and the Silver Age. Well, if we speak in the language of today, then along with classical poetry, poems are embodied in modern, youth art.
Poetry, says the UNESCO decision, can be the answer to the most pressing and profound spiritual questions of modern man - but for this it is necessary to attract the widest possible public attention to it. In addition, World Poetry Day should provide an opportunity to express themselves more widely to small publishing houses, whose efforts mainly bring the work of modern poets to readers, and to literary clubs that revive the age-old tradition of the living, sounding poetic word.
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This Day, UNESCO believes, is designed to create a positive image of poetry in the media as a truly modern art, open to people.
Imagine our life without poetry... Without holiday greetings, without songs, without Pushkin, Lermontov, Shakespeare, modern authors... It will be a boring life without an explosion of emotions expressed in simple letters on paper, without that little mysticism when the same words, but written in a certain order, can move you to tears. The power of words has a special energy that captivates and subjugates our imagination.
In 1999, at the 30th session of the UNESCO General Conference, it was decided to celebrate World Poetry Day on March 21. The first World Poetry Day was celebrated in Paris, where UNESCO has its headquarters.
“Poetry,” says the UNESCO decision, “can be the answer to the most pressing and profound spiritual questions of modern man - but for this it is necessary to attract the widest possible public attention to it. In addition, World Poetry Day should provide an opportunity to more widely express themselves to small publishing houses, whose efforts mainly bring the work of modern poets to readers, and to literary clubs that revive the age-old tradition of the living, sounding poetic word.”
Today, traditionally, in many countries around the world, on the occasion of World Poetry Day, literary evenings, festivals, presentations of new books are held, literary prizes are awarded, etc.
This Day, UNESCO believes, is designed to create a positive image of poetry in the media as a truly modern art, open to people.
The Yale Young Poets Group Award is well known in the Americas. It was established in 1919 and is the oldest annual poetry award in the United States. It is awarded to America's most promising young poets.
The International Festival "Biennale of Poets" is held annually in Moscow, and the "Moscow Account" prize and the poetic Oscar of the Russian capital are awarded. Another award, which is called "Moscow Transit", is an expression of the unflagging interest of the Moscow literary community and Moscow readers in the poetic work of authors working outside the capital.
In Moscow, one of the cultural and poetic capitals of the world, the celebration of World Poetry Day usually lasts about 10 days.
In the Russian capital, it has become a tradition to celebrate Poetry Day with a variety of poetry events that take place in theaters, literary clubs and salons. In 2008, the program of World Poetry Day in Moscow included a kind of poetry marathon, a presentation of new books, a course of lectures on poetry of the last thirty years, the presentation of various poetry prizes, and much more.
K. Balmont
POETS
You know, as do I,
Invincible urges
And we are in the heavenly heights,
And we are the undercurrents.
A series of breaths before us
Phenomena of Power and Uselessness,
And we are always in the center of the circle,
And we flash around the circle.
We look into the mirror of Fate
And how we dress up for a holiday,
Half-lords and slaves,
We gather around dark crypts.
And hearing the midnight fight,
Drunk on iron music,
We're dancing in a circle
Above the opening abyss.
Game of Cemetery Lights
We are beckoned by fairy tales,
Wherever there is death, we are right there with it,
Like smoky shadows with fires.
And we, invisible, are burning,
And we disturb someone else’s sleep with caresses,
And we reign among the inexperienced
Madness, horror and fairy tales.
"The poet is always in the arms of the muse.
She's stalking him.
And how nice it is to know that you need
You gave everything of yourself to everyone in poetry.”
I just wish all my friends a happy holiday.
Write, create, dare.
After all, everything can be said in poetry.
Best wishes to everyone. Rita