'Árdeli dallamok'. Possibilities of perception of KAF in education

Abstract

The works of KAF being included in the curriculum of public education provides a number of opportunities for those experimenting with it. It can however raise also some questions that would be difficult to ignore. The difficulties most probably come from the fact that there is insufficient connection between the terminology (and especially the basic focus on problems) used in public education and in scientific literature. While the KAF text seems to be open for discussion with theoretical questioning, it is difficult to approach with the literature theory focusing on the author, which is used in public education (except for nursery rhymes or childrens poetry, where this approach is traditionally not used). It is a common problem that there is no time to discuss contemporary poetical tendencies in detail. However, this is not necessarily and obstacle, but might provide an opportunity to create a connection between the two ‘spheres’ and the two approaches to literature – and for this, the poetry of KAF can be the best candidate. We can basically consider KAF’s poetry can be a basis of comparison for all important topics, periods and oeuvres of other poets. Such comparisons with contemporary literary phenomena (either by analysing texts or using them as examples) can help the understanding of the stylistic, poetic or rhetorical characteristics of a certain poet or literary period as much as bringing contemporary Hungarian poetry (meaning literary works that are linguistically and culturally closer to the readers and students) to life. This study evaluate those aspects that make the teaching of KAF’s poetry possible to teach even in public education: the issue of nursery rhymes, poetical “masks” and images and intertextuality and with an appendix: some actual texts recommended for comparative analysis (which can be fit into the high school curriculum). As it can be seen from the list, the poetry of KAF can provide points for analysis for any poetical oeuvre in the high school curriculum.