What poems/books do you have memorized?
Haven't finished yet, but I aim to memorize Sailing to Byzantium, the Jabberwocky, and a few other poems.
Memorizing a book is impossible unless you're an autist.
My diary desu.
>>8094192
if plays count then quite a few because of having to learn lines.
general q: how much shakespeare do you reckon shakespearean actors with >50 years experience have memorised? i mean at judy dench/ ian mcellen level.
but yeah, >>8094209 apart from plays/poems/brief passages, memorising entire books is a bit autistic. i dont get how the greeks used to be able to recite literally the entirety of written works up to that point
I memorized Invictus when I was 14 and I still have it 6 years later
In was in a WWII memoir I read
>>8094225
Huge chunks with a prompt. Whole play beginning to end still seems tough.
An Orson Welles interview he tells the story of performing Othello and noticing a man in the front row whispering all the lines to himself. It's Churchill.
>>8094192
None.
I've memorized the Magna Carta, though; both translated and in the original Latin.
>>8094249
Nice. I find it's easier than you think. Realized it after listening to some poetry recordings
Frost:
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Love and a Question
Sonnet 18
Tennyson's "The Eagle"
>>8094192
Horatius
I memorized the Raven and Annabel Lee for an English project in 8th grade.
i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart)
i am never without it. wherever i go, you go,
my dear, and whatever is done by only me
is your doing, my darling
It began with a certain disgust and it ends,
- unable to grasp this eternity, -
it ends in a riot of perfumes.
Something else travels through air --
thighs, hair, flakes from my heels
White Godiva, I
unpeel
Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
from the fool's gold mouthpiece, the hollow horn
plays wasted words, serves to warn
that he not busy being born is busy dying
When the stars threw down their spears
and watered heaven with their tears,
did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
i had a good portion of "tabacaria" in my head, i just dont anymore...
>>8094209
>Jabberwocky
I used to have The Walrus and the Carpenter memorized.
I have a couple dozen poems by heart and learn new ones whenever I come across something I like.
Tyger by Blake
Opening paragraph from Ode to Nightingale
Those few lines with "To be or not to be"
Occasional snipers and lines besides that
>>8094474
No one forgets the first stanza.
> Não sou nada / Nunca serei nada / Não posso querer ser nada./ À parte isso, tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo.
—Ozymandias
—a few random stanzas of Eugene Onegin (Falen translation), mostly from chapter 2
—a few poems from Christian Morgenstern's "Gallows Songs" (Knight translation)
—a lot of rap songs
>>8094490
I have Carrol's acrostic poem memorized. The one that spells out Alice's full name, hence it's easy memorization.
Sound and Fury soliloquy
To be or not to be soliloquy
>>8094234
Same.
