How to memorize a poem by Dissidence

"It provides inspiration and expresses your feelings when normal words aren't enough."

How I did it: Well, I had to memorise some poems for my Higher English, and that wasn't pleasant because I HAD to do it.

But I've also memorised "O Me, O Life" by Walt Whitman because it is such a great poem and sums up how I feel pretty much all the time.

I would still love to memorise Ode by Arthur O'Shaughnessy...but that poem is enormous.

Many times I'll just randomly recite it when the mood takes me. It's become a motto of mine.

Lessons & tips:

  • If the poem has a strict rhyme scheme, pay attention. It helps when you have trouble remembering the next line because you know what the last word should rhyme with.
  • I find copying the poem out lots helps.


 

May 16, 10:11AM PDT | 1 comment | 1 cheer


Comments:

yogamom07 training for a 10K

Great Goal!!!

O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring;
Of the endless trains of the faithless—of cities fill’d with the foolish;
Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?)
Of eyes that vainly crave the light-of the objects mean-of the struggle ever renew’d;
Of the poor results of all—of the plodding and sordid crowds I see around me;
Of the empty and useless years of the rest—with the rest me intertwined;
The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?

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