Memorizing Poetry

How to Memorize Poetry
Here are some various ways to memorize poetry:


 * 1) Create an image for every single word and using the loci method
 * 2) Divide the poem into "beats" (like in method acting)
 * 3) Extract keywords and then chaining them into a story
 * 4) Extract keywords and then placing the images in loci
 * 5) Copy the poem by writing it onto another sheet of paper
 * 6) Line-repeat method. See this page for details.

(TO DO: describe each technique)

List of Poetry for Memorization
Proposed format
 * List beginner poems, list should be subdivided by style of poetry, listing should include title, author, year written and length of poem.

Beginner
 * "Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening" - 1923 - Robert Frost - 4 stanzas, 16 lines
 * "Neither Out Far Nor In Deep" - 1936 - Robert Frost - 4 stanzas, 16 lines
 * "Jabberwocky" - 1872 - Lewis Carroll - 28 lines

Intermediate


 * "Ozymandias" - 1818 - Percy Bysshe Shelley - sonnet
 * "The Walrus and the Carpenter" - 1871 - Lewis Carroll - 18 stanzas, 108 lines

Advanced
 * "The Raven" - 1845 - Edgar Allan Poe - 108 lines
 * "The Cremation of Sam McGee" - Robert Service - 69 lines
 * "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" - Robert Service - 58 lines

Poems Needing Sorting

 * Invictus by William Ernest Henley
 * Beowulf prologue (Old English, 52 lines) -- sample

Other webpages with lists of poems

 * List of Poems to Memorize
 * Ideas for Poems to Memorize (discussion)