The Basic Properties of Children's Poetry

Abstract

Children's poetry is an important reality between poetry and literary people specially in modern reign, by modern we mean twentieth century and so far. Poetry of children among Kurdish nation has an ancient history, like those lamenting of the mothers that were said to calm down their children. when poets and authors give importance to the children then sorts of poetries were written as a special style, idea, language, and passion. Poetry of children should be written brief with a clear language so that the poet can express his/her goal. We all know language is regarded as the core factor in human life, since it is a way we can speak about future and past by means of it , so idea through this word and these terms reaches reader that a poet or writer is using in his/her works. The poet in composing poetry of children use a wide imagination as children desire more imaginative things. Thus, children's poetry has unique style that is fragile, clearer and easier as compared to poetry for adults, following that particular magazines are devoted for children and poetry for children embraces several booklets and special books. What are these children poetries? What are their specifications? In which way are they different from poetry for adults? What are the basic literature of these poetries? So, all of these are answered in this research.