I have to memorize a poem for English by tomorrow! Help Please!!!?

Question

It has to be at least 8 lines long by a well known poet. I have tried to memorize Shakespear but I found that I couldn't...Too boring and I didn't understand half of it...

Answer 1

try the "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll

Answer 2

I used to memorize poems an hour before class...

I memorized the first line...
Repeated the first line and memorized the second line...
I repeated the first two lines and started on the third line...
...and so forth.

This causes a lot of redundancy it memorizing the previous lines. Also, if it rhymes try to remember the the rhyme to help trigger the right words.

Also read it for comprehension. Makes it easier to memorize when you know what the point or story is because it'll make sense why the poet did it.

Answer 3

Any poem? poet?

Pick one that you can put music to, or
pick one that you already know as a song.

8 lines is easy. Just write out a few copies
by hand. Maybe 10 times. Then learn two
lines at a time and repeat ten times. Then
do 4 lines at a time. Then exercise while
saying it. then sing in the shower. then
while getting dressed. then write 10 more times.

Answer 4

Why complicate your life with that, there is plenty of contemporary poetry, try something by Robert Louis Stevenson, he not only wrote books, he also wrote poetry, some of them are quite popular, the source below lists examples from a Child's Garden of Verses. They are not too hard to understand and fun too because it makes you think about how you saw things as a child. The Land of Counterpane, Bed in Summer and The Swing are my personal favorites since fourth grade. Just watch the rythm and metric.
Good Luck

Answer 5

hmmmm did she say how long those 8 lines were to be and heres a poem:::::::::Howard Moss's "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day"
Who says you're like one of the dog days?
You're nicer. And better.
Even in May, the weather can be gray,
And a summer sub-let doesn't last forever.
Sometimes the sun's too hot;
Sometimes it is not.
Who can stay young forever?
People break their necks or just drop dead!
But you? Never!
If there's just one condensed reader left
Who can figure out the abridged alphabet,
After you're dead and gone,
In this poem you'll live on!

Answer 6

Find a poem that you like, one that has a good beat (rhythm). Rhyme too, if you can manage it. Then you can chant it or sing it, this gets your subconscious interested and engaged.
Shel Silverstein has some good humorous poems, or Edgar Allen Poe if your tastes tend toward the dark side. Lewis Carroll has some good ones interspersed thru his Alice stories. The importanat thing is that you should like it, and it should have rhythm. Then say it over and over, and let the rhythm carry you thru it.
Good luck!

Answer 7

This is one of my favorites, and should be easy to memorize, because it follows such a strong pattern:

up into the silence the green, by e.e. cummings

up into the silence the green
silence with a white earth in it

you will(kiss me)go

out into the morning the young
morning with a warm world in it

(kiss me)you will go

on into the sunlight the fine
sunlight with a firm day in it

you will go(kiss me

down into your memory and
a memory and memory

i)kiss me,(will go)

Answer 8

Try Langston Hughes...his poems are short and easy to understand. btw, Shakespeare is only boring if you don't understand it.