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conulyThe important thing is they have to be accessible, beginner-level poems for people who don't "get" poetry in English (or, perhaps, in any language).
Though I will say now what I only sort of suggested then, which is that I've never thought the point of reading anything is to understand it all. Sometimes it's enough to enjoy it, even if you miss a thing or ten. (This may be why I know so many Shakespeare quotes - from the age of six onwards I made repeated dives into our big copy of his collected works, and you know for sure I did not understand Elizabethan English at that age!)
Though I will say now what I only sort of suggested then, which is that I've never thought the point of reading anything is to understand it all. Sometimes it's enough to enjoy it, even if you miss a thing or ten. (This may be why I know so many Shakespeare quotes - from the age of six onwards I made repeated dives into our big copy of his collected works, and you know for sure I did not understand Elizabethan English at that age!)
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Date: 2026-04-20 08:57 am (UTC)Requiem, by Robert Louis Stevenson, is one I have always loved.
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/requiem/
It basically says: I've had a good life, and I'm not afraid to die. Bury me here in my favourite place (happened to be on a hilltop in Samoa).