Carol Ann Duffy: texting and Twitter 'help students perfect poetry'

[Jazzy]

Children who use social networking sites and text messaging to communicate are “perfecting” their poetry skills, Carol Ann Duffy, the Poet Laureate, has said.



The 55 year-old said communicating via mobile phones and through social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, helped teenagers condense their thoughts.



Britain’s first female Poet Laureate, who is second only to Shakespeare as the subject of choice for undergraduates studying English, said poetry was the “original” form of text messaging.



Her views are in stark contrast to other education experts who have lamented how modern language is being killed off by the so-called “Facebook generation”.



But launching a defence of younger generations, the creative director of Manchester Metropolitan University’s writing school, said modern musicians used language in a poetic way.



The poem is a form of texting ... it's the original text, said the poet, whose work is studied in schools at GCSE and A-level.



Full story: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/educatio...and-Twitter-help-students-perfect-poetry.html



Do you agree with her?

 

[Evil Eye]

It doesn't rhyme, there's no rhythm. it's not poetry.

That doesn't mean it doesn't help people condense their thoughts.