Loved this post. It’s good I’m alone these three days at home, so I can go around repeating the poem and only my dog look at me wondering what’s wrong with me!
I just want to let you know, Henry, that I am officially able to recite by memory the whole poem in my fantastic Spanish-accent English. And my family agreed that I’ve done it beautifully.
Thank you so much for this piece, Henry; it's such a beautiful poem. I particularly love the connections you made to other poets' works. The poem grows in its reflection.
I found this very useful! Though as a man who has organized his life around his utter incapacity for memorization, I sincerely hope there is a another way in. I feel like if you don't already have some sense of what to look for, the returns to re-reading/memorization decline very rapidly.
Loved this post. It’s good I’m alone these three days at home, so I can go around repeating the poem and only my dog look at me wondering what’s wrong with me!
Such a good one to recite!
I just want to let you know, Henry, that I am officially able to recite by memory the whole poem in my fantastic Spanish-accent English. And my family agreed that I’ve done it beautifully.
Oh this is excellent!!
Do you have an idea of how often you will do these? I loved this so much.
hopefully twice a month, maybe more!
Gorgeous learned explication.
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Excited for this series!
Thank you so much for this piece, Henry; it's such a beautiful poem. I particularly love the connections you made to other poets' works. The poem grows in its reflection.
Delighted you go so much out of it. I hope you will memorise the poem!
I found this very useful! Though as a man who has organized his life around his utter incapacity for memorization, I sincerely hope there is a another way in. I feel like if you don't already have some sense of what to look for, the returns to re-reading/memorization decline very rapidly.
Well if you memorise the poems I recommend that might be a start! But I think the choice of anthology is important.
Spot on. Thank you.
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that phrase, 'to enter into the dream of the poem'... is that from somewhere? or your own coinage? terrific piece, thank you.
A. D. Nuttall