SELECTION CRITERIA OF ENGLISH AND UKRAINIAN POETRY FOR PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

The article is keen on answering the question: what should be the quality characteristics of the poetry offered for study in primary school, so that it could be easily perceived, so that it could be easy for children to remember, and so that it could be able to develop aesthetic tastes, a sense of rhythm, and rhymes. The article stresses that poetry is designed to evoke a sense of security, harmony, and detachment in a child, to awaken intuition, and to create a relaxed atmosphere conducive to learning, just like music. The author states that poetry is especially important in our time when today's children live in the age of digital technologies. They often lack live contacts, they are lonely and very sensitive, but at the same time, they are not fully aware of their emotions. Reading poetry for them becomes not only the development of skills, but also psychotherapy, and empathy training, when a common emotional and valuable space is created, and book characters turn into safe guides to a stable world. And if to take into account the fact that all our internal processes are related to rhythmization, and rhythm and rhyme affect even motor activity and a sense of security, then we can conclude the necessity of forming criteria of poetry for study in elementary school. The research states that the rhythms and melody of the poetic word return a person to the original state of harmony with himself and the surrounding world if it is a quality, genius poetry, but it can also distort the taste, bring disharmony to the state of mind of both an adult and a child - a child even more, since children are more sensitive to the effects of the external environment. Therefore, it is extremely important what kind of poetry we offer to the attention of an individual undergoing the process of formation.