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'Twas Halloween Night

'Twas Halloween Night

Owens, Geoffrey
Harrod, Karen Hopkins

Hardcover

General Juvenile FictionHolidayPoetry

ISBN10: 1950495906
ISBN13: 9781950495900
Publisher: Lucid House Publishing LLC
Published: Oct 1 2024
Pages: 38
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.25 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

Poetry, rhymed or otherwise, is, has always been, and always will be, a significant part of our culture. When at our best, we have the insight to recognize how barren life would be without it. The poetic style of 'Twas Halloween Night imitates that of A Visit from Saint Nicholas-its rhythm as well as its rhyming couplets. Because of my love for Shakespeare, in choosing the meter I seriously considered iambic pentameter. But Moore's four beats somehow seemed more appropriate than the Bard's five. My hope is that this deliberate imitation (homage, perhaps?) will serve as an attractive entrance point-a friendly literary Welcome mat-for the reader. I also wrote 'Twas Halloween Night with a mind towards how Dickens, in his great holiday story, makes sure both to comment on society and to suggest ways in which we, as its members, might make it better. Thus, Jorlyn's experience, like Scrooge's, leads her to a greater understanding of her human family and her responsibility to it. Years ago, when I first began working on the poem, I had in mind the need for my own little boy to be aware of, and sensitive to, the world around him. How was I to know that years later, that need-on his part as well as all of ours-would be greater than ever?

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