/lit/ - Literature

>>15510351
lmao you saved that pic from a thread here didnt ya

>>15510351
Either set it to music and try to memorize it like a song or look into how actors memorize monologues. It'll help if your form a narrative for the poem separate from the words you're trying to memorize. Don't worry overly much about technique, it's largely practice. It's difficult to begin, but only because this is a skill that doesn't get exercised much in daily life. You'll likely find your capacity for memorizing long passages far exceeds your expectations.

t. memorized Douay-Rheims Ecclesiastes

violence
><slaps face> and that's so you remember

>>15510351
you just KNOW

Honestly there isn't much of reason to memorize long poems, unless you're truly autistic about it, because long term memories are created by constant recall, and you're not going to recall 500+ lines of poetry daily for months or maybe even years. The longest poem I ever memorized was Browning's Childe Roland, which is 200 lines, and after a year of not reciting I forgot about a half of it.
If you'e still up to it, just do it, there's no special trick to it, poetry is designed to be easily memorable. For the same reason as the number 111222333444555 is easier to remember than 569745794773946, poetry is easier to get down than prose. Don't just rote it endlessly, take note of the structure, rhyme scheme, alliteration, theme etc and use it to aide your recall.

>>15510351
poetry is meant to be sung

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2FT4_UUa4I

>>15510351
Is reciting poems from memory a thing?

I can't recite any poems, except for maybe 'Pumpkinhead by Ed Justin', but maybe I'm just dumb.

>>15510371
im surprised you remember, unless you're the anon whose gf it is
>>15510423
>>15510481
What is wrong with memorizing by rote?

>>15510629
Rote memorization is simply inferior. You will have a much stronger recall for things you understand, rather than things you repeated ad nauseam. Human memory is a network of connected impressions and knowledge rather than a folder full of discrete files. Trying to jam something that isn't related to anything into your brain is a difficult and ineffectual task.

>>15510351
Is she going to fuck that horse? Would of preferred to see her do a bigger one. Anyway someone give me the link

>>15510351
I inadvertently memorized the entirety of The Waste Land, mostly by listening to recordings of it read aloud (my favorite was Alec Guinness's). To be fair I was listening kind of obsessively for a good month or two, but I can only conclude that listening specifically, rather than only reading, is helpful. Once I realized I had the poem like 80% memorized I would try writing out sections and comparing with the source to see what I messed up. I did that for a week or two and had the whole thing memorized.

>>15510547
idk i usually remember my favorite lines from different poems but memorize an entire poem sounds kinda redditor (especially if you REALLY try to memorize it, as if you were desesperate for letting other people know about the poetry you read)

>>15510351
Create a Memory palace and fill it with whatever you want to memorize

>>15510725
horses are too small for white women

I know for a fact that this girl has sexy feets.

>>15510351
Just read it over and over again. I've never done this with anyone else's writing but, probably because I'm such an egomaniac, I've memorised literally all of my novels, short stories, and poems by heart and could probably recite them all fully. It's not like I tried to memorise them, but I read everything I write over and over again compulsively just to assure myself I'm not a talentless hack and eventually it gets engrained into my memory.

Also, this is how I memorised essays for school. Just wrote them at home, read them like 20 times, and just wrote them down from memory when I actually had to do the test.

>>15510351
I can't believe you saved that picture you coomer

>>15510351
Why did you post a picture of my future wife?

>>15510351
too bad she's dumb according to her bfanon

>>15510351
Speak it aloud musically. Maybe record it and listen to it. Ever gotten a song stuck in your head?

>>15510547
>Is reciting poems from memory a thing?
for likely hundreds of thousands of years, yea

>>15510351
you just KNOW

>>15510629
I also remember. you're creepy dude

>>15510371
leave him alone dude, don't be an asshole

>>15510547
I can do a few Heine, Rilke, O'Hara and Larkin. It's just a fun exercise to me. I do it to occupy my mind at work.

>>15510351
hahahaah you actually saved that. Can't blame you I also found that guy's story profoundly upsetting

>>15516618
>upsetting
bruh he has a qt gf who's perfect in every way, whats so upsetting about that

>>15516636
That she's not mine

>>15510547
It used to be incredibly common. Nowadays it's a lot more rare, even among people who enjoy poetry, for some reason.

>>15510351
I used to have canto one of pale fire in its entirety, now I mostly have fragments. Honestly I just listened to it on audiobook while driving and it stuck like a song sticks.

>>15510351
You incontrovertibly, unavoidably, unequivocally, irrefutably, unassailably, unquestionably, incontestably, undeniably, apodictically, empirically, categorically, palpably, patently, positively, indubitably, definitively, unambiguously, absolutely, indisputably, inarguably, unmistakably, rigorously, beyond the slightest shadow of a doubt JUST KNOW