https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/poetry-recitation-returns/
The key to the question of content is the name of the British program: poetry by heart. We want our children, as well as ourselves, to learn language by heart to make it part of their hearts, part of their being. We want the language to help them see the world and act on it. Therefore, garbage in, garbage out. Only language that instills truth, beauty, and goodness should be memorized and recited. We should first ask, how long has this language been around? How long has it resonated? How long has it been revered?