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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsMy quarantine challenge for myself:
To re-memorize "the Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe.
Had to learn it in high school (forty years ago!) and recite it for speech contest. I still remember a lot of it, but looking at it, was surprised at how much I had forgotten. Wow. Could be daunting.
2naSalit
(86,036 posts)working on that, it will come back to you easily. That's happened to me with pieces of music I had memorized, I mean the whole thing, every instrument's part and all that... came back to it decades later and could recall quite a bit but there were big chunks missing from my immediate memory. But after a rehearsal or two, it all came back.
lastlib
(22,978 posts)It's been many years since I've had the urge to go back thru it all the way, so there wasn't much need to retain it. But it's still there, I just need to re-train the synapses.
2naSalit
(86,036 posts)sarge43
(28,939 posts)Make up your own melody, doesn't matter what.
That helps embed them in memory. If it works for you, the first few notes will bring up the complete poem.
It's the bards and minstrels did. They didn't recite; they sang.
flotsam
(3,268 posts)As I stroked myself for solace
as a novice without knowledge
moving hand that gave me mem'ries
mem'ries of the the lost Lenore...
lastlib
(22,978 posts)Interesting! It could be interpreted somewhat, um, lasciviously dontcha think? Where did you find it?