Auburn High School - Arrow Yearbook (Auburn, NY)

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THE VYRROW --1 poets. After reading his book it is not difficult to see why young people do not hesitate to show their verses to him. He would understand and appreciate them. He would realize the thrill of finding the right word, the right phrase, to express the thought. He does not ridicule their evident mistakes, yet he does not ignore them. His book is interesting and understandable. Perhaps it is most of all the fact that he is young with the writers that endears him to their hearts. He likes them and he likes their verse. Poetry in the 'teens may seem an unimportant subject for discussion. -Of the thousands of children who think they can Write when they are young, how many really ever do make names for themselves? Some give it up ffortunately for the reading public, perhapslj and others find more absorbing ways of spending a lifetime than hunting for rhyming words. Naturally most of these Writers would never make poets, but in the few that have genius lies our hope for future poets. America prides herself on fostering talent. Is it not as necessary that we have poets to carry on our ideals as it is to have statesmen to carry out our policy of government? In spite of all contrary opinion, poets are as necessary as manu- facturers. Without ideals, without beauty, a nation dies. Why should not our country excel in respect to poetry as Well as in other respects? 'To encourage this self-expression, to correct mistakes, to praise effort, is the hest means of fostering poetry. On poetry in the 'teens rests America's artistic and cultural future. -EILEEN BURNs, '32, Nast aw :sew C? t? ll Page Fourteen --

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