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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 — which in essence means holding literature in the mind and heart, and then reciting it. Thus we find in the oral tradition […]
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Creative Writing Courses are a “Waste of Time”
March 17th, 2014 | Writing | journalpulp | 2 Comments
The novelist Hanif Kureishi — who teaches creative writing at Kingston University, and whom I’d frankly never heard of before I saw this article — has recently come under some fire for remarks he made to The Guardian newspaper: “A lot of my students just can’t tell a story. They can write sentences but they […]
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3 Strange & Wondrous Ways You Can Learn Poetry By Heart & Memorize Any Passage of Literature