Tuesday, October 02, 2007
13 More Poems I'd Like to Memorize
This is a reminder to myself, in no particular order but what I think of them.
1. "Cuckoo" by Larissa Szporluk
2. "I Know a Man" by Robert Creeley
3. "Resume" by Dorothy Parker
4. "Olduvai Gorge Thorn Tree" by Sarah Lindsay
5. "How to Listen" by Major Jackson
6. "Praise in Summer" by Richard Wilbur
7. "The Tyger" by William Blake
8. "Buffalo Bill's" by E. E. Cummings (so many good choices here)
9. "For My Daughter" by Weldon Kees
10. "Musee des Beaux Arts" by W. H. Auden
11. "To Earthward" by Robert Frost
12. "On the Death of Friends in Childhood" by Donald Justice
13. "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks
So many more good choices I'm leaving off here too. What about you?
1. "Cuckoo" by Larissa Szporluk
2. "I Know a Man" by Robert Creeley
3. "Resume" by Dorothy Parker
4. "Olduvai Gorge Thorn Tree" by Sarah Lindsay
5. "How to Listen" by Major Jackson
6. "Praise in Summer" by Richard Wilbur
7. "The Tyger" by William Blake
8. "Buffalo Bill's" by E. E. Cummings (so many good choices here)
9. "For My Daughter" by Weldon Kees
10. "Musee des Beaux Arts" by W. H. Auden
11. "To Earthward" by Robert Frost
12. "On the Death of Friends in Childhood" by Donald Justice
13. "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks
So many more good choices I'm leaving off here too. What about you?
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I set "The Tyger" to music once (a simple reggae beat, basically), so that made it easy for me to memorize. But that was years ago, so I would probably botch it now.
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