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    Andrew Motion served as the Poet Laureate of England from 1999 to 2009, the first to serve a fixed 10-year term. As Poet Laureate, Motion sought to make poetry more accessible to the public and targeted younger audiences by encouraging schools to teach poetry regularly. He was knighted in 2009 for his work promoting poetry. The Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom is an honorary position appointed by the monarch to write poetry for significant national occasions, with past laureates including prominent poets like Ben Jonson, William Wordsworth, and Carol Ann Duffy, who was the first female poet to hold the role.

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    Andrew Motion served as the Poet Laureate of England from 1999 to 2009, the first to serve a fixed 10-year term. As Poet Laureate, Motion sought to make poetry more accessible to the public and targeted younger audiences by encouraging schools to teach poetry regularly. He was knighted in 2009 for his work promoting poetry. The Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom is an honorary position appointed by the monarch to write poetry for significant national occasions, with past laureates including prominent poets like Ben Jonson, William Wordsworth, and Carol Ann Duffy, who was the first female poet to hold the role.

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    Andrew Motion, in full Sir Andrew Peter Motion, (born October 26, 1952, London, England), British

    poet, biographer, and novelist who was especially noted for his narrative poetry. He served as poet
    laureate of England from 1999 to 2009. As poet laureate, Motion sought to make poetry accessible to
    a wider audience. He especially targeted younger people, encouraging schools to teach poetry
    regularly. He was the first laureate to serve a fixed, 10-year term; previous laureates had received a
    lifetime appointment. Motion was knighted in 2009.

    Poet laureate: The Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom is an honorary position appointed by the
    monarch of the United Kingdom, currently on the advice of the prime minister. The role does not
    entail any specific duties, but there is an expectation that the holder will write verse for significant
    national occasions. (well-known poets that were appointed laureates include Ben Jonson, John
    Dryden, Thomas Shadwell, William Wordsworth, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Alfred Austin, and currently
    Carol Ann Duffy. Duffy is the first female poet to hold the role, and the first Scot.)

    “Poetry is the form we turn to instinctively at moments of intensity,


    whether it be to celebrate or grieve. Why? Because of its compressions
    and distillations, its different perspectives, its meditative pace. Because
    of its link with our strongest emotions. Because of its power to console.
    Because of its separation (of whatever degree) from ordinary speech,
    which creates a sense of occasion. Because of its implicit demand to
    remember.”

    (British Poet Laureate Andrew Motion)

    1- Intensity? Arousal of strong feelings/emotions, touching and moving nature

    2- Instinctively? Led by emotions, impulses, the mind is not a constraint, exteriorization

    3- Celebrate? Happiness, joy, bliss derived from events

    4- Grieve? Sorrow, misery, pain, suffering stemming from loss

    5- Compressions? A poem reveals much more than it actually says.

    6- Distillations? Each and every part of the poem is significant, relevant, meaningful and
    irreplaceable

    7- Perspectives? “life” as seen by women or men, unique, cannot be repeated

    8- Meditative pace? It invites reconsideration, reflection and meditation

    9- Link with? Connection with sensitive side of man, not the rational/sensible. Self-identification
    with the persona

    10- Power to console? You are not the only, the reader finds comfort in the poem

    11- From ordinary speech? Language used is specific and unique (embellishment)

    12- A sense of occasion? Every interaction is unique and personal, the response is one that
    cannot be replicated

    13- Implicit demand to remember? Bring back memories similar to those found in the poem
    Memorabilia / memorability

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