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Zach Weinersmith on Beowulf and Bea Wolf

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The Poetry of Your Teenage Years

I think it's nice to give your kids poetry because they're more likely to take it with them. Kipling is a very good example I think so my understanding is he would literally listen to folk music in his head and sort of tap on his table as he wrote. The poems that you loved as a child because your parents read them to you tend to stay around unlike the music part. Let's talk about the original be a 1500 year old poem called bail, bail wolf by Sir Walter Scott.

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