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3 Strange & Wondrous Ways You Can Learn Poetry By Heart & Memorize Any Passage of Literature
December 24th, 2019 | Poetry | journalpulp | 6 Comments
Poems, unique among all literature, were for many centuries specifically meant to be learned by heart. They were meant to be memorized and then recited aloud. This is called the oral tradition of poetry. It means holding literature in the mind and heart, and then reciting it. Thus we find in the oral tradition of […]
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May Swenson: the best poet you’ve never heard of
September 12th, 2013 | Poets | journalpulp | 4 Comments
Have you ever heard of May Swenson? Most people have not. And yet she’s undoubtedly one of America’s greatest poets — a poet and playwright, I should say, though it’s for her poetry that she’s most often praised. She was born May 28th, 1913, in Logan, Utah, the oldest of ten children. She was raised […]
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3 Strange & Wondrous Ways You Can Learn Poetry By Heart & Memorize Any Passage of Literature