I have decided to take a challenge and memorise one poem per day. So far it's going well, I have memorised three poems in three days. Looking forward to learning new poems. What do you think about poetry? About learning it by heart? Which ones are your favourites?
94 poems in 94 days
Edit: Today, I am dealing with Philip Larkin's MCMXIV (1914, in roman numerals, as incised on stone memorials to the dead of World War I, as taken f. The Norton Anthology of Poetry (4th Edition)).
Because some of you have asked about these particular poems (I do have to say that some of these are just verses or even some excerpts from plays, etc.), I am absolutely willing to share them with you:
The Red Wheelbarrow by W.C. Williams;
This Is a Photograph of me by M. Atwood;
Preludes by T.S. Eliot;
MCMXIV by P. Larkin;
Daffodils by W. Wordsworth;
Break of Day in the Trenches by I. Rosenberg;
XLIII by W. Shakespeare;
Silent Noon by D.G. Rossetti;
Hamlet IV.VII. by W. Shakespeare;
LXV by W. Shakespeare;
The Waste Land (Fire Sermon, The Burial of the Dead, Death by Water, A Game of Chess) by T.S. Eliot;
La Belle Dame Sans Merci by J. Keats;
Holy Sonnets, XIV by J. Donne;
God's Grandeur by G.M. Hopkins;
Anthem For the Doomed Youth by W. Owen;
To Sleep by J. Keats;
The Kraken by Alfred, Lord Tennyson;
Auguries of Innocence by W. Blake;
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat by E. Lear;
The Tempest I.III. by W. Shakespeare;
The Lotus-Eaters by A., Lord Tennyson;
I am by J. Care;
Ozymandias by P.B. Shelley;
From the Prelude Residence in France by W. Wordsworth;
IX [Funeral Blues] by W.H. Auden;
Methought I Saw by J. Milton;
The Cloud by P.B. Shelley;
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot;
Kubla Khan by S.T. Coleridge;
Mutability by P.B.Shelley;
LXXIII by W. Shakespeare;
The Maldive Shark by H. Melville;
Diving into the Wreck by A. Rich;
Upon Westminister Bridge by W. Wordsworth;
Schoolboys in Winter by J. Clare;
Warming Her Pearls by C.A. Duffy;
So we'll go no more a-roving by G.G., Lord Byron;
Lullaby by W.H. Auden;
To his coy mistress by A. Marvell;
An Arundel Tomb by P. Larkin;
Ode on Melancholy by J. Keats;
The Tempest I.II. by W. Shakespeare;
Journey of the Magi by T.S. Eliot;
Dover Beach by M. Arnold;
CCCXLI by E. Dickinson;
Modern Love, I. by G. Meredith;
Natural Tones by T. Hardy;
The Oven Bird by R. Frost;
Muséu des Beaux Arts by W.H. Auden;
Stepping Westward by W. Wordsworth;
Paradise Lost, Book IX. [vs 679-709] by J. Milton;
The Haunted Palace by E.A. Poe;
Church Going by P. Larkin;
A Poison Tree by W. Blake;
Frost At Midnight by S.T. Coleridge;
Digging by S. Heaney;
Piano by D.H. Lawrence;
CXXVIII by W. Shakespeare;
The Wreck of the Deutschland by G.M. Hopkins;
Measure For Measure II.IV. by W. Shakespeare;
Nuns Fret Not by W. Wordsworth;
The New Colossus by E. Lazarus;
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death W.B. Yeats;
Fern Hill by D. Thomas;
Dulce Et Decorum Est by W. Owen;
My Last Duchess by R. Browning;
To His Mistress Going to Bed by J. Donne;
Byzantium by W.B. Yeats;
The Tyger by W. Blake;
Song- Go and catch a falling star by J. Donne;
Canto V, The Rape of the Lock by A. Pope;
Hero and Leander by C. Marlowe;
Lines Composed a few Miles... by W. Wordsworth;
Design by R. Frost;
The Ship of Death by H.D: Lawrence;
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty by P.B. Shelley;
The Sun Rising by J. Donne;
The Trees by P. Larkin;
Othello IV.III. by W. Shakespeare;
On the Beach At Night by W. Whitman;
Tear, Idle Tears by A., Lord Tennyson;
The Darkling Thrush by T. Hardy;
LXXXVII by W. Shakespeare;
The Road Not Taken by R. Frost;
XII by W. Shakespeare;
Three Years She Grew by W. Wordsworth;
Break, Break, Break by A., Lord Tennyson;
Danse Russe by W.C. Williams;
Love (III) by G. Herbert;
Written After Swimming from... G.G., Lord Byron