Memorizing Poems

Do you memorize poems?

Which poems?

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Yes
YES
broken cage
tiger
he is out

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.

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.

>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

i'm working on memorizing the four quartets

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.

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.

Yeah, well I can recite all four cantos of The Red Wheelbarrow faggot

>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?

Nice user keep it up

Ungaretti is a great poet. He had a nice relationship with Brazil too, having taught at a university here for a few years. He translated Murilo Mendes, one of the foremost BR poets, into Italian.

I actually bought his collected poetry at AbeBooks a few months ago, but later the seller told me he couldn't find the book, so he gave me my money back and I didn't get the book. I do own a short anthology (200 pages), and I have read some of its poems many times. I tend to prefer his later poetry.

cheers m8, in all seriousness pretty cool

I've studied now philosophy
And jurisprudence, medicine
And even, alas, theology
From end to end with labour keen
Yet here, poor fool, for all my lore
I stand no wiser than before
I am doctor, yea, Magister, hight
But straight or crosswise, wrong or right
These ten years long with many woes
I've lead my scholars by the nose
To find that nothing can be known
And that knowledge cuts me to the bone.
I'm still working on the rest of the monologue

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
did gyre and gimbal in the wabe
all mimsy were the borogroves
and the mome raths outgrabe.

Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite! The claws that catch!
Beware the jubjub bird, and shun
the frumious bandersnatch!

He took his vorpal sword in hand,
long time the manxome foe he sought,
so rested he by the tumtum tree,
and stood a while in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
the jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
came whiffling through the tulgey wood
and burbled as it came.

One! Two! One! Two! And through and through
His vorpal sword went snicker-snack
he left it dead, and with its head
he came galumphing back

And hast thou slain the jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
Oh frabjous day! Callooh, Callay!
He chortled in his joy.

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
did gyre and gimbal in the wabe
all mimsy were the borogroves
and the mome raths outgrabe.

in Russia we have to do it for school..
so yeah, I guess I know a lot, a couple of dozen or something...
It is good for your memory and when you have nothing to do, you can recite them and it is a lot of fun!

I'm brazilian too, I'm planning to learn italian. What books, sources have you used?

A Night Docking at Maple Bridge
By Zhang Jie

yue lue Wu qi shuang man qian
Jiang Feng Yu huo dui Chou mian
gu su Cheng lai han shan si
Yao something ban ye dao ke chuan

While I watch the moon go down, a crow caws through the frost;
Under the shadows of maple-trees a fisherman moves with his torch;
And I hear, from beyond Suzhou, from the temple on Cold Mountain,
Ringing for me, here in my boat, the midnight bell.

Had to memorize that in high school but I am pretty sure it has bastardized in my mind over time

Indro Montanelli's Storia dell'Italia series and a dictionary.

Habrá un silencio verde
todo hecho de guitarras destrenzadas
La guitarra es un pozo
con viento en vez de agua.

POEMA SIGUIENTE

I memorized The Turkish Revelry.
I recited it to myself while I was waiting on pain meds in the hospital.
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This is a great book. Hughes introduces it with his own method for memorizing, which he claims is the method used by the illiterate ancients, and it works for me. I memorized over half of the poems in it.

a few poems from A Shropshire Lad because they rhyme and are easy to remember

Me too! Why this one? But I memorized this at age 7. It’s one of three I know.

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Yes, Primo Levi made this point, IIRC:- traditional rhyme and meter makes verse much easier to learn.

SOME GOOD POEMS THAT ARE EASY TO LEARN BY HEART:

> "If" - Kipling
> "Into my heart" - Houseman
> "Loveliest of trees" - Houseman
> "Thoughts on stopping by a wood" - Frost
> "Strange Meeting" - Owen
> Sonnet 65 "Since brass nor earth" - Shakespeare
> Sonnet 73 "That time of year" - Shakespeare
> Sonnet 129 "The expense of spirit" - Shakespeare
> Ode to Autumn - Keats
> "As Imperceptibly as Grief" - Dickinson
> Jaguar - Hughes [half-rhyme but still pretty conventionally structured]
> "The colour of saying" - Thomas
> "Life, friends, is boring" - Berryman
> Ozymandias - Shelley
> "She tells her love while half-asleep" - Graves
> Musée des Beaux Arts - Auden
> Aubade - Larkin

>Not learning it in German

I have memorized some beautiful, classic poems and quotes in several languages in order to impress different people (specially girls) so I'm being seen as a very cultured man.

Examples:

-La pioggia nel pinetto by D'Annunzio
-A couple by Leopardi
-Some Shakespeare
-The beggining of Dante's Inferno and some other quotes
-One by Heine
-Some Yeats
-Rayuela's chapter 7 by Cortázar
-The end of La vida es sueño by Calderón de la Barca

I know Chaucer from the Knight's Tale to the Reeve's Tale as well as the squire's tale.

I recite the Iliad to the people in my village sometimes