/lit/ - Literature

>>14196724
Remembering a poem

>>14196724
Stave off Alzheimer’s in old age

>>14196724
you can recite poems relevant to the conversation or context you are in, with the gamble that itll make you look insightful, or a pompous douchebag

>And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
>Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

>>14196744
how is it going butterfly?

Like a good song, a good poem is something you can recall to calm yourself down, or cheer up, or inspire yourself, or tune in any other emotion. These are small magic incantations, or in more grounded terms, therapeutic tools that help you get through rough times. Everyone benefits from knowing a poem or two.

>>14197228
my penor has suddenly experienced a surging sense of virility that could lift the sky

FURNISH YOUR MIND WITH BEAUTY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMx7TOuI__Y

>>14196724
You improve your memory and you get to remember a nice poem

>>14196724
I like to memorize poems partly because it makes me look for patterns in ways that I might not have done it otherwise. I also do it because I like the idea of carrying a perfect copy of an artwork with me at all time. I can not do this with any other artform.

>>14197295
Forgery.
He wrote that, not me

>>14198720
how many times will you continue to disappoint me buttercunt
>WHY DO YOU BUILD ME UP, BUTTERCUNT BABY, JUST TO LET ME DOWN

Improved memory

>>14197305
this. also to impress girls. here's a selection from the rubaiyat i memorized a while ago:

>with me along some strip of herbage strewn
>that just divides the desert from the sown
>where name of slave and sultan scarce is known
>and pity sultan mahmud on his throne

>sometimes i think that never blows so red
>the rose as where some buried caesar bled
>that every hyacinth the garden wears
>dropped in its lap from some once lovely head

>how long, how long in infinite pursuit
>of this or that endeavor or pursuit
>better be merry with the fruitful grape
>than sadden after none, or bitter fruit

>ah, fill the cup, what boots it to repeat
>how time is slipping underneath our feet
>unborn tomorrow and dead yesterday
>why fret about them if today be sweet

>think, in this battered caravanserai
>whose doorways are alternate night and day
>how sultan after sultan with his pomp
>abode an hour or two and went his way

>'tis all a chequerboard of nights and days
>where destiny with men for pieces plays
>hither and thither moves and mates and slays
>and one by one back in the closet lays

>the moving finger writes, and having writ
>moves on, nor all thy piety nor wit
>shall lure it back to cancel half a line
>nor all thy tears wash out a word of it

>so leave the wise to wrangle and with me
>the quarrels of the universe let be
>and in some corner of the hubbub couch't
>make game of that which makes as much of thee

>ah, my beloved, fill the cup that clears
>today of past regrets and future fears
>tomorrow? why tomorrow i may be
>myself with yesterday's sev'n thousand years!

>oh, come with old khayyam and leave the wise
>to talk, one thing is certain: that life flies
>one thing is certain and the rest is lies
>the flower that once has blown forever dies.

>ah, make the most of what we may yet spend
>before we too into the dust descend
>dust unto dust, and under dust to lie
>sans wine, sans song, sans singer and sans end!

>one moment in annihilation's waste
>one moment from the well of life to taste
>the stars are setting and the caravan
>starts for the dawn of nothing, o make haste!

chicks love orientalism

If you have to ask chances are it's not for you

>>14200196
and looking to the heaven that bends above you
how oft! i bless the lot that made me love you

Honestly? Getting laid
Also sometimes you'll find a poem that is genuinely meaningful to you personally

>>14196724
It's a way to mull over the more subtle linguistic gymnastics in great poetry. You end up being able to use those devices naturally

>>14196724
It improves your memorizing skill, which it's important when you reach certain ages if you want to have something from what you've read retained. And secondly, I think that if you want to write poetry is very important. It is not the same to remember the aspects of the poetry of x author than knowing by heart those aspects through memorized examples.

The ability to read some of the most beautiful words written in the human language at will sounds like a plus to me. Its like having an inbuilt music player that allows you to listen to full Classical Concertos or Sonatas whenever you want.

1. You'll always have it with you; with a little work you'll have an entire anthology in your head.
2. You'll understand the poem better than anyone else could. It's like having a 3D blueprint in your head. You almost feel like you know the author personally.

>>14196724
Annoy people at parties

>>14202058
Annoy people at anonymous anime boards