National Poetry Day 2012

1. National Poetry Day 2012 “STARS”

2. Twinkle twinkle little starHow I wonder what you are… From our earliest days, the poetry of stars surrounds us. We look at the stars and see stories in the constellations, our scientific selves boggle at the concept of interstellar travel and we steal the stars’ metaphorical power to name our cultural heroes.  How to express this wonder, if not in poems?

3. A star is born http://hubblesite.org/gallery/movie_theater/starslife/

4. Shakespeare’s Macbeth “ …Stars, hide your fires, Let not light see my black and deep desires” (Macbeth)

5. Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet "Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die,Take him and cut him out in little stars,And he will make the face of heaven so fineThat all the world will be in love with nightAnd pay no worship to the garish sun.“ (Juliet)

6. Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing "There was a star danced, and under that was I born.“ (Beatrice)

7. O’Casey’s Juno and the Paycock Joxer: “I often looked up at the sky an’ assed meself the question - what is the stars, what is the stars?”

8. Mark TwainThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn “It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.”

9. “Falling Stars”by Rainer Maria Rilke Do you remember still the falling starsthat like swift horses through the heavens racedand suddenly leaped across the hurdlesof our wishes - do you recall? And wedid make so many! For there were countless numbers of stars: each time we looked above we wereastounded by the swiftness of their daring play,while in our hearts we felt safe and securewatching these brilliant bodies disintegrate,knowing somehow we had survived their fall.

10. Star-themed films