Post AZKUJucGNU6COLvtRI by flashesofpanic@ruby.social
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(DIR) Post #AZKPEVAp2tuUGRhMFk by clive@saturation.social
2023-09-01T16:00:45Z
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"The Curious Power of Memorizing Poems" My essay on the interesting cognitive effects of having a lot of poetry loaded into the live RAM of your mindhttps://clivethompson.medium.com/the-curious-power-of-memorizing-poems-1b028a77a9f6Here's a free "friend" link in case you're not a Medium subscriber: https://clivethompson.medium.com/the-curious-power-of-memorizing-poems-1b028a77a9f6?sk=ac8c2df71f795c338a714f8d78d9724c
(DIR) Post #AZKPvDwD0HD5GEEakS by clive@saturation.social
2023-09-01T16:10:06Z
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@band omg that's a great one!I have a couple of his committed to memory, including "somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond"
(DIR) Post #AZKRgSkhqDPIltwXeC by bruceturner@toad.social
2023-09-01T16:29:46Z
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@clive I'm a big fan of memorizing poetry. As a young man I had a CD of famous poets reading their poetry, as far back as Walt Whitman. I can still hear Theodore Roethke's booming voice and precise cadence anytime someone around me starts a sentence with, "I knew a woman..." My brain finishes the poem from there: "...lovely in her bones, When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them..."
(DIR) Post #AZKSdfblgeV9jEzjsW by dashdash@mastodon.social
2023-09-01T16:40:25Z
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@clive While not directly related to poetry, there's a quote I read some years back that has stuck with me ever since and which touches on the same idea of how what we read changes us:“Beware of the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.”― Ben Okri
(DIR) Post #AZKTILlCNyZc2onsie by xinicit@mastodon.floe.earth
2023-09-01T16:47:30Z
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@clive I was an obsessive memorizer of quotations in my early twenties. I used them as a balm for my OCD and anxiety. I think I’ll start again, and add in some poetry this time.
(DIR) Post #AZKU13OhVNeQ7lb3VA by clive@saturation.social
2023-09-01T16:55:53Z
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@xinicit Cool!
(DIR) Post #AZKUELkUaOgkny85rs by clive@saturation.social
2023-09-01T16:56:30Z
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@bruceturner That’s so cool!!
(DIR) Post #AZKUJsTKLjlLk3jjEW by flashesofpanic@ruby.social
2023-09-01T16:56:37Z
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@clive aaaand, this is why I get so cranky with engineering students and techbros who think they don’t need to understand literature or learn how to write effectively. The Russian Lit department was pretty hardcore about memorizing poetry (“You’ll always have something to read on the subway!”) but none more than the poetry prof who wouldn’t let us memorize translations and therefore assigned a bunch of Frost, Dickinson, Auden, Burns, etc…
(DIR) Post #AZKUJucGNU6COLvtRI by flashesofpanic@ruby.social
2023-09-01T16:56:37Z
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@clive …for a class on 19th c Russian poetry! He assigned a poem for each session and we would start the session writing them out. He marked down for incorrect punctuation! Never assigned his own poems, though, though I eventually took my internet handle from one of his essays: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Brodsky
(DIR) Post #AZKUMUhRBvJ6sjaHia by clive@saturation.social
2023-09-01T16:56:03Z
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@dashdash Yessssss
(DIR) Post #AZKUU3xcURvIGjlKYS by clive@saturation.social
2023-09-01T16:57:07Z
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@band Music is the modern evolution of poetry — it’s how people get words stuck in their minds!
(DIR) Post #AZKXKOsg9bAU7QXGEa by clive@saturation.social
2023-09-01T17:31:48Z
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@flashesofpanic Brodsky!! Right onThat's so cool you had him as a prof
(DIR) Post #AZKcYShjEcivnlwDdQ by RoyBrander@urbanists.social
2023-09-01T18:31:32Z
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@clive I've been memorizing them since I was 19, and could only take one book out for a month in the mountains. Though, the whole "Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock" is a 135-line challenge unless I just refreshed it.This is my story about what one poem did for me. Told its the best thing I ever wrote.http://www.cuug.ab.ca/branderr/snow.html
(DIR) Post #AZKeMxstgL52wFo7uq by clive@saturation.social
2023-09-01T18:51:57Z
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@RoyBrander That's a wonderful poem, and a great essay!
(DIR) Post #AZKooaufgJi3LOS0oa by markhurst@mastodon.social
2023-09-01T20:48:32Z
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@clive Great piece. I'm working on an Auden poem
(DIR) Post #AZKpxwqNc2wLvCT3Ka by bruceturner@toad.social
2023-09-01T21:01:48Z
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@clive This is the recording I recall. https://youtu.be/gcjk6jrPZnA?si=3Axxr1ayvA962zf9
(DIR) Post #AZKrfcs1KpKufdcsXA by clive@saturation.social
2023-09-01T21:21:01Z
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@markhurst 🤘🏻🤖