/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10360165]

What method do you use to memorize poetry?

[Anonymous No.10360179]

I write it down and a do a formal scansion.

[Anonymous No.10360229]

>>10360165
Reading it

[Anonymous No.10360240]

if its long, without rhyme and in "blank verse", I don't even waste my time

[Anonymous No.10360381]

>>10360165
Ugh I lost the chicken game

[Anonymous No.10360405]

>>10360165

Method of Loci.

[Anonymous No.10360617]

Haven't memorized much poetry, but have done some scripture. I like the game where you write down only the first letter of each word, then have to go through and repeat the passage with only the first letters to prompt you.

[Anonymous No.10361553]

>>10360165
Recite it out loud, repeatedly, to a tune. Once you get it to music, correct and instead focus on proper intonation and inflection, since the music and beat does change this, the music is just a mnemonic tool.

[Anonymous No.10361565]

>>10360165
My favorite method of memorizing poetry, you can Google it to learn more about it, is actually called "The game"

[Anonymous No.10361646]

I haven't memorized poetry since earlier school days, but usually rote memorization. Works just fine if you are persistent, as I still can recite fully the Chinese poem "Night Docking Under Maple Bridge" or whatever it is called nearly flawlessly. Didn't have to memorize the English title though

[Anonymous No.10361678]

>I looked at the chicken before reading anything else.

[Anonymous No.10361693]

>>10360165
I read it.

[Anonymous No.10361712]

>>10360240
what problem do you have with the most common meter in english?

[Anonymous No.10361733]

>>10361678
The game is perverse because in order to win you must deny yourself the pleasure of looking at the chicken. We are the true winners for breaking out of our self imposed shackles and gazing upon that great image of a chicken.

[Anonymous No.10361734]

>>10360165
Anki

[Anonymous No.10361751]

recite it, it's quite easy to commit to memory if broken into parts