{"id":466,"date":"2007-04-02T21:35:39","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T05:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=466"},"modified":"2016-10-12T06:36:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T13:36:22","slug":"the-lazy-persons-guide-to-memorizing-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/the-lazy-persons-guide-to-memorizing-poetry","title":{"rendered":"The Lazy Person’s Guide to Memorizing Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Ezra

Ezra Pound, 1913<\/p><\/div>\n

You can memorize a poem in five minutes. Really. You just have to have the right poem. Don’t believe me? Try these:<\/p>\n

On His Seventy-fifth Birthday<\/span> by Walter Savage Landor<\/p>\n

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife,
\nNature I loved, and next to Nature, Art;
\nI warmed both hands before the fire of life,
\nIt sinks, and I am ready to depart.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Too long? Try this one:<\/p>\n

In a Station of the Metro<\/span> by Ezra Pound<\/p>\n

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
\nPetals on a wet, black bough.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Today’s activity for National Poetry Month<\/a> is to commit a poem to memory, so make it a point today to etch one into your brain. Give it a try! If you already have a poem memorized, tell us which one, and why you memorized it. On a good day I can recite “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe and “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll. For more poems to memorize see Committed to Memory: The Best 100 Poems to Memorize<\/a>, edited by John Hollander.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You can memorize a poem in five minutes. Really. You just have to have the right poem. Don’t believe me? Try these: On His Seventy-fifth Birthday by Walter Savage Landor I strove with none; for none was worth my strife, Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art; I warmed both hands before the fire of life, It sinks, and I am ready to depart. Too long? Try this one: In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,25],"tags":[255,257,256],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-poetry","tag-ezra-pound","tag-national-poetry-month","tag-walter-savage-landor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/Ezra_Pound_2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-7w","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4046,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/4046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}