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_refugee_  ·  3929 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why we should all memorise poetry | The New Yorker

While I am an advocate of memorizing poetry, I don't know if a poetry memorization club would get off the ground here. It would require an extensive committment of multiple members.

I posit that those who find poetry worth memorization are already memorizing poetry on their own, and that it might be difficult to find others who have that kind of passion and just need "a little kick." Plus, usually memorization is best when you find poems of great personal meaning to you (or great personal beauty) and decide you want to keep them forever. It's a bit of a personal thing - which is why I think a weekly tag might have trouble. In such a case, we'd all be working together to memorize a poem - but how do you do that on an online forum? How do you use an online forum to make memorization easier? and trying to memorize poems we might not have any resonance with.

However, I encourage you to try and memorize poetry.





istara  ·  3929 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks for your input!

I've been trying to find a service online, but there's nothing quite what I want. I just signed up to About.com's "Classic poem of the day" which emails you a classic poem daily.

_refugee_  ·  3894 days ago  ·  link  ·  
istara  ·  3894 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That looks cool! The thing is I really want classic poems. The About.com poems are perfect, but they only put four lines in the email then you have to click through to the site.

I just want to receive the whole thing by email.

_refugee_  ·  3894 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I haven't tried this out myself but might be worth a try if you select the classics option

istara  ·  3894 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Just signed up! Fingers crossed. Thanks!

_refugee_  ·  3929 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There are several sites that offer daily poem emails. I think poetry.org has one as well, and Rattle has a Poem of the Day e-mail too.