Literary educational value of youth poetry

Abstract

This paper explores the value of youth poetry in literary education. In the meantime, youths tacit acceptance in youth literature is at the core of growth . This view has made the youth look immature. However, youths are emerging as the subject of production and consumption of youth discourse. Now, youth form an independent and independent world, where they form self-sufficient stages of producing, circulating and consuming their own discourses. The youth poetry is becoming a new literary genre by accepting these youth discourses positively. In this paper, youth appear as subjects of speech activity. The subject of speech act communicates with the youth internally in the youth discourse which is the experience of the youth and the sensory experience. In addition to these genre characteristics, the subject of speech act as aesthetic characteristic of youth poetry was proposed. It is a device for securing the youthfulness of youth poetry when the youth poetry is discovered by the aesthetic qualities other than poetry. The subject of speech act is a hypothetical youth subject that can be said from the point of view of adult poet. This kind of youth poetry is of two major values in literary education. One is that youth poetry can reach out to youths with fascination and envy. Fascination and envy can create intrinsic motivation for youth to experience literature. The other is that youth poetry enhances self-identity and awareness of other worlds to youth. Through youth reading, youth gain the opportunity to reflect on the various phenomena of the youth world they belong to, and to move on to continually scrutinize other worlds that embrace their world. In this respect, the youth poetry can be an alternative to the difficulties of canon text presented in the literary education. Youth can take youth learner into the literary experience by accepting youth discourse positively, and may provide opportunity to express youth s life in poetic language. For youth who have had difficulties in poetry, youth poetry will form a new attitude toward literature and will help to increase the possibility of making literature in daily life.