Thoughts on Stevenson.

We have been reading a lot of poetry in class lately, and I have noticed a trend within most of these poems... they are not specifically meant for just children. Even though they are in a book titled "A Child's Anthology of Poetry", they can connect with adults just as much, if not more as they can with children. One of my favorite poets so far is Robert Louis Stevenson. He not only writes his poems specifically for children, in simple language, straight forward, and no metaphorical meanings hidden; he writes them as though from a child's viewpoint. He is not writing as an adult looking into a child's life, he writes with the imagination and energy of a child. This is intriguing to me, and I appreciate his thoughtful ideas in bringing the simplicity back to children's poetry!