Every year, 21st March is celebrated as World Poetry Day. UNESCO first adopted 21st March as World Poetry Day in 1999 during the 30th General Conference in Paris. The objective for doing it was to support the linguistic diversity and give an opportunity to the endangered languages to be heard. Poetry is the music of the soul wherein words depict even the complex of ideas through the most beautiful words. It is a day to revive the oral tradition of poetry recitals and promote teaching and writing poetry. In some places, you would also see convergence between poetry and other art forms like theater, dance, painting and music.Â
‘Standing on the Shoulders of Giants’ is the themes of World Poetry Day, 2024. This celebratory theme of 2024 is a tribute to the poets whose revolutionary and pioneering works have made the poetry world more diverse and inclusive. Simultaneously, it also puts young poets in poetic history who are building their foundation on the progressive past poets. The first poem that appeared in the world was ‘Epic of Gilgamesh’ around 4000 years back in Babylon. After that, different poems of different types with different metrical structures have appeared in the poetry world. Some of the pioneers of the poetic world have been William Blake, Walt Whitman, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Lord Alfred Tennyson, W.B. Yeats, Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Frost.Â
In conclusion, World Poetry Day is not only a day to celebrate poems and poets, rather it is a day to celebrate the power of words to move everyone emotionally.
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