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OutliersManifest  ·  3434 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Learning poetry by heart

                For how long to you plan to do this one poem per day thing? I feel this sort of rush to memorize will result in low quality to quantity ratio. I myself have never sat down to memorize a poetry or prose, yet there are some lines that have seared themselves into my memory. For example, I memorized  "But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture, Tell them that God bids us do good for evil; Thus I clothe my naked villainy with odd old ends stole from Holy Writ, And seem a saint when most I play the Devil" from Shakespeare's King Richard III because it was so powerful. It was not out of a desire to be able to quote anything, but rather because I had found a mantra of sorts, a few lines of writing that somehow I felt summed up my entire life (Back when I read it. I am a different person now, yet I dont think I will ever forget those lines). IN your position I would set a more open ended goal "read more good poetry", and then if I came across anything that really resonated with me, I would memorize that.




DaedalusInSicily  ·  3434 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What I've totally forgot to mention is that I have compiled a list of 94 thematically arranged poems. I will try to memorise these 94 poems in 94 days. Best regards and thanks for the advice.

lightsandcandy  ·  3434 days ago  ·  link  ·  

What are the poems?

DaedalusInSicily  ·  3434 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I have added the poems, if you still want to check them out.