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GRaDE nine ON MEMORIZING POETRY ' ' Breathes there a student with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said, ' ' This memory work is hard on my head. The art (?) is introduced in about Grade two, when the qullible innocents are first asked, Wouldn ' t we like to know ' The Peach ' by heart? And of course they would like — they don ' t know any better. However it is in junior high that the student ' s problem first manifests itself: you have no memory . Now, how to memorize? Here, in two easy steps, I give you Memorizing without a Memory , guaranteed to work for anyone from Grade two up, with an above-moron I.Q. The method is not to memorize someone else ' s words, but to re-create the poem in the same way the poet originally wrote it. For our practical application let us use The Peach . Now, what would you say about a peach in a poem? To start out, where do you find peaches? In a peach basket, you say. Correct, but baskets-are too prosaic for poetry. Peaches are on trees. Now what do they do on trees? They grow, of course. Repeat that for emphasis. What do peaches need to grow? Water and sun. What do they do when they have water and sun? They grow more. Repeat that several times for effect. Step two is stating these facts in poetic language. You will replace the tree with the orchard . Also, it would be nice to have it kissed by the sun and dew. Dew, not wa J ‘er. It grew and grew and grew neatly finishes off your little creation. Do you see? You have written the poem, and can do so again in class. Now is the time to demonstrate your ability. Go ahead with confidence. You don ' t have to worry about remembering words. You are going to reconstruct the poem. Here you go. The peach on the ... tree, no ... orchard ... grew and grew., um,... with the ... no, no, kissed by the eun and kissed by.tha water...er, dew. It.grew and ... uh ... grew and grew. Oh well, back to the drawing board! Karen Tennenhouse Room 5 SUMMER LANDSCAPE I slowly began to climb the last winding part of the steep mountain trail. I wasn ' t sure that it had been a good idea to spend a beautiful summer day,like today, stumbling obdiut on a mountain trail just to prove to myself that I could climb to the top of Mount Lyon. But as I rounded the las+ part of the trail and came upon a small grassy plateau, I realized that my efforts had been richly rewarded. From the ledge the whole beautiful valley stretched out before me in all its summer splendor. I sat down quickly on a rock forgetting my tired and aching muscles so I could take in all the beauty nature hod put before me. Deep in the valley the grass in the gently rolling fields waved softly in the cool breeze. A few cows stood lazily in the shade of a great spreading oak sedatly chewing their cud. The leaves of the trees in the far end of the valley were a beautiful emerald green and seemed to shine in the warm summer sun. The wild flowers on the side of the opposite mountains seemed to form a carpet of glowing colour. The creek that wound slowly through the valley seemed to bind all these separate beautiful creations of nature into one breathtaking view.
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