that other shit thread made me want to memorize poetry
what are your favorite short-ish poems to recite? any tips on memorizing poetry other than just repeating it over and over? maybe the piece you want to memorize is a cool monologue from a play, maybe it's not even verse?
or post a short poem you like general
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love—
I and my Annabel Lee—
With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsmen came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,
Went envying her and me—
Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we—
Of many far wiser than we—
And neither the angels in Heaven above
Nor the demons down under the sea
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,
In her sepulchre there by the sea—
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
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>yfw you realize lolita is fanfiction of this poem
I like reciting that one poem by E.E. Cummings to bitches. I'm handsome af so I get away with being a derivative, cringe-inducing faggot.
>>7425096
pics family
>>7425096
so you're literally the fuccboi from the hour irl?
>>7425103
Or maybe JTT from the Christmas movie where he fucks Jessica Biehl.
the fly by blake
>>7425103
how do you pronounce fuccboi
>>7425142
fuck boy
>>7425145
>mfw ive been thinking fooch boy
>>7425142
like fuckboy, but you spell it differently because a fuckboy is something else.
INTO my heart on air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.
>>7425014
Sick tumblr post brah
saged
I memorized 'a farewell' by Tennyson and Invictus. I just read them until they stuck, but I think it's easier if you have a memory palace.
>>7426407
memory palaces would be cool but it seems like p much bullshit, can you elaborate on that anon
Shakespeare's sonnet 130
Trust me, bitches have a instant orgasm when a guy recites this.
>>7426477
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
isn't this just a list of insults ending with, and even though you suck so much i like you as much as any of the prettier chicks?
>>7425014
Xanadu.
Got the first two stanzas off by heart.
>>7426410
It's pretty simple to do, just imagine your home or your parents home, or even the streets of your home town or you can even imagine a place from scatch, but the better you can picture it the easier it is. Then you place objects or people around that palace that helps to remind you of whatever it is you're trying to remember. For example, you're trying to remember Plato's Republic so you picture a Greek syle plate on your couch with pubic hairs coming out of it. The more obscure the image, the better you remember it.
>>7426521
how does that translate to poems tho? different object for every line?
>>7426493
It's a systematic rebuttal of then-current love poetry conventions. "False compare" was devastating honesty in a period defined by hyperbolic virginity. This is Shakes basically calling the love poets of his time a bunch of kissless virgin tryhards, while he was actually getting some. Which he was. A love poem about the difference between love poems and love poems. If you Bote pronto my Arrimada.
>>7426477
>>7426493
This and 18.
>isn't this just a list of insults ending with, and even though you suck so much i like you as much as any of the prettier chicks?
No, he's basically saying he doesn't have to lie by comparing her with things that are obviously better at what they do, snow is obviously whiter etc. He admits he never saw a goddess walk around, and that she's just as normal as any other woman but that his love for her is as rare, or as good, as any of the other poets who lie by comparing her with things which any human cannot be compared to.
>>7426590
Why would you ever do that? I memorized them because I like them and they're nice to go through in your head if you're bored or waiting somewhere or whatever, not because I'm going to spew them out on every woman I see. Are you sure you aren't projecting?
>>7426602
it's just joke greentext anon. i liked the idea but not that specific one im considering sonnet 76.
I decorated the whole hamlet's soliloquy when I was a teenager. I like to remember it, but now I think it is a bit tacky...
>>7426632
it's kinda fedora for sure
>>7426526
Never really done it myself but I guess either every line or the start of a verse would probably be enough.
>>7426493
The real love poems he writes for the boys.
>>7426646
wtf is fedora?
>>7426493
although that's the surface message, what willie is actually saying is that all bitches are basic, but his love for one particular woman is deeper than any other poet, and also he is better than other poets who write love poems because they all rely on cliches ('false compare').
>>7426667
m'lady
>>7426646
Oh, ok, I got it. You'r right. I was this guy.
I like Marianne Moore's 'Poetry':
I, too, dislike it.
Reading it, however, with a perfect
contempt for it, one discovers in
it, after all, a place for the genuine.
maybe this whole thing of decorating poems is a bit fedora. the worst part is that when you recites a poem, the best thing you can look is like this guy. because in general you will look like something very much ridiculous.
and I'm quite sad saying it. I use to like poetry gathering.
>>7425014
The best way to memorise (or my method, at least) is to either record yourself reciting a poem, or downloading poetry readings (i'm partial to the youtube channel spokenverse due to the readers voice) and listening to them in your car as you would a song.
After repeated listens, just like a song, you begin to speak/sing with it. After a while it's stuck.
Hope this helps.
>>7426722
>record yourself reciting a poem
Might as well kill myself
A subtle chain of countless rings,
The next unto the furthest brings.
The eye reads omens where it goes
And speaks all languages, the rose.
And, striving to be man, the worm
Struggles through all spires of form
>>7426738
Don't be a cocktease what are the next two lines
