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Playful Encounters in the Garden of Poetry: Children’s Poetry and Play

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Kalogirou T.

Filoteknos

2019

issue 9

98–119

Poetry is heavily invested with playfulness. Drawing on the most recent critical discourse on children’s poetry, the present study aims to showcase that the significant form of play can be manifested in many ways in children’s poetry and also be traced in poetic language as playful humor and intense verbalplay. For this purpose, a cluster of poems are addressed, poems been found in poetic anthologies for children (“Overheard on a Saltmarsh”), in the street (“Bam Chi Chi La La: London, 1969”) in the playground (“I scream...”) and in single-poet collections (“Jamie Dodgers aren’t the only fruit”, “Skig the Warrior”). All poems reveal some of the essential qualities of children’s poetry and most importantly its overall playful character materialized both in linguistic and conceptual terms. The children’s poem “Come on into my tropical garden” written by the British- C aribbean poet Grace Nichols is closely analyzed as a manifestation of poetry’s playful spirit. The exuberance of its rhetoric and sound, its rhythmical feeling and the rich texture of its verses are conveyed through a well-embodied structure and form. What is more, the poem is thoroughly permeated by play as a core element both in thematics and figurative language. The poet uses and reappropriates the “garden” as a powerful metaphor for children’s poetry, placing the child at the very center of a symbolic natural landscape to celebrate nature’s delights and to exercise her insatiable appetite for play.

Time Lost and Time Regained in Contemporary Children’s Literature

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Kalogirou T.

Filoteknos

2021

issue 11

175-184

Time and memory can mean very different things when discussed in philosophical and artistic terms. They are associated with the most common and, at the same time, the most intimate aspects of a human being, and they can take many forms: time can be mythic or secular, eternal or portioned in temporalities, while the broad range of memory can be found among different categories. However, both concepts are inevitably linked with artistic representation and with the power of human imagination to capture time and recreate memories via different means of artistic expression. This paper addresses evolving notions of time, particularly drawing upon the archetypal criticism and the distinction that has been utilized in the context of children’s literature between kairos (καιρός) and chronos (χρόνος) (Nikolajeva, 2000). Literature for children very often dwells on the mythic, circular, eternal time of kairos. Chronos, on the other hand, is linear, often conceived and experienced by humans in terms of suffering, loss, and death.

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Playful Encounters in the Garden of Poetry: Children’s Poetry and Play

Time Lost and Time Regained in Contemporary Children’s Literature