Do you memorize poems?
Which poems?
Memorizing Poems
Evan Allen
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Camden Sullivan
Yes
YES
broken cage
tiger
he is out
Asher Nguyen
I once recited Brontë's Sympathy while standing on a table in my Victorian Lit. class. It was gay as shit, but I got extra credit out of it.
Isaiah Sanchez
Very little... I probably have less than 500 lines of poetry memorized, certainly less than a thousand. It's quite embarrassing and I plan on changing that soon.
Benjamin Campbell
>the vast majority of Leopardi's poems
>some parts of the divine comedy
>some Shakespeare sonnets
>ozymandias
>some Michelangelo sonnets
>a good amount of poems by Montale, Zanzotto, Quasimodo, D'Annunzio and Ungaretti.
>A couple from Baudelaire
>L'azur
>The incipit of both homeric poems
>The incipit of de rerum natura
>alla sera from Foscolo
>Ei fu, but they made us memorize it school so that doesn't really count
>a bunch of poems from minor Italian poets
>a couple of snippets from Novalis, in english translation
>Satrapies by Kavafis
I think that's it
Blake Hall
i'm working on memorizing the four quartets
Liam Flores
I which I had memorized as much as you. Sei tu un poeta? Ho cominciato a imparare l'italiano l'anno scorso e gia ho letto alcuni dei piu importanti autori: Dante, Petrarca (soltanto la prima parte del Canzoniere), un po' di Ungaretti, Quasimodo, Calvino... Credo che Dante sia il piu grande poeta di sempre (almeno tra quelli che scriverono nelle lingue latine ed in quella di Shakespeare), ma non ho ancora cominciato a memorizarlo.
Do you know any good website for (illegaly) downloading Italian ebooks? I live in Brazil and they are either very expensive or impossible to find here, specially the more recent authors. I never found Zanzotto except in English websites, and the shipping costs are too much for me.
Jacob Wood
I have a half dozen or so memorized, but I should do it more often. It's by far the best way to get a really deep understanding of a poem.
Robert Mitchell
Yeah, well I can recite all four cantos of The Red Wheelbarrow faggot
Josiah Martinez
>Sei tu un poeta?
Nah, just a guy with a passion for his country's poetry.
>Ho cominciato a imparare l'italiano l'anno scorso e gia ho letto alcuni dei piu importanti autori
Good job user, you speak pretty well for someone who studied for only a year.
>do you know any good website for (illegaly) downloading Italian ebooks?
I usually search the book I'm looking for on libgen or TNTforum, although often the book is nowhere to be found so I end up buying the book. Newer books are especially hard to find because Italians don't buy a lot of ebooks (IIRC ebooks are only 5% of the market , as opposed to the 20% of the anglosphere). How are you enjoying my boi Ungaretti?