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comment by AnSionnachRua
AnSionnachRua  ·  1879 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The lost art of memorization

A much easier Housman poem to memorise:

    When the bells justle in the tower

    The hollow night amid,

    Then on my tongue the taste is sour

    Of all I ever did.

I know an older gentlemen who can recite over forty Irish poems owing to being forced to memorise them back in school. The result is sweet, but the process sounds like torture.





rene  ·  1879 days ago  ·  link  ·  

When Helen Lived - W. B. Yeats

    We have cried in our despair

    That men desert,

    For some trivial affair

    Or noisy, insolent sport,

    Beauty that we have won

    From bitterest hours;

    Yet we, had we walked within

    Those topless towers

    Where Helen walked with her boy,

    Had given but as the rest

    Of the men and women of Troy,

    A word and a jest.