Three Things I Learned From Reading Fireside Poetry

Three things I've learned from reading Fireside poetry is that, it doesn’t focus on romanticism, rather it focuses on Victorian. It is overly sentimental or moralizing in tone, but as a group they are notable for their scholarship, political sensibilities, and the resilience of their lines and themes. (Most schoolchildren can recite a line or two from Fireside poetry got its name because, people would read the poems near the fireplace. Some Fireside poets included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Their poems would usually be written to read by families.

In my opinion fireside poetry is more interesting to read than regular poetry. The reasons to this is because it focuses more on rhyming. And the thing is about having a poem prioritizing in its rhyming is that it makes it more fun to read. It pulls you into the poem and its like a nursery rhyme which are always so catching. Like all the other poems fireside poetry has lessons that are expressed through the poem. Lessons usually expressed in fireside poetry are usually about life.