any good poems that i can easily memorize???

Question

i was thinking of William Shakespeare and i think his poems are really good but hard to memorize.. we need to memorize a poem by someone (can't be ours) and it needs to be 8 lines or more.. i really need help... recital date: may 15, 2007.. thanks!

pls... don't give me a long poem... i can't memorize really long poems... pls.. i beg you...

Answer 1

Maybe try something by Emily Dickinson. Her poems tend to be short and rhyme. This one always sticks in my head. Best of luck!

After great pain a formal feeling comes--
The nerves sit ceremonious like tombs;
The stiff Heart questions--was it He that bore?
And yesterday--or centuries before?
The feet, mechanical, go round
A wooden way
Of ground, or air, or ought,
Regardless grown,
A quartz contentment, like a stone.

This is the hour of lead
Remembered if outlived,
As freezing persons recollect the snow--
First chill, then stupor, then the letting go.

If you really want to go the easy route i'm sure you could master this poem in about a minute or two.


The Red Wheelbarrow
by William Carlos Williams


so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.

Answer 2

Thomas Jefferson
What do you say?
Under the gravestone
Hidden away
I was a builder
I was a molderer

etc etc. It's an easy poem, and you get lots of lines for little effort.

If you want to enjoy what you're doing, however, memorize "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe. Then you can get very emotional and say "Nevermore" with great feeling, and get everyone in your audience really stirred up. It's fun.

Then again, you could memorize Shakespeare's "All the world's a stage", and get your audience laughing when you talk about the infant "mewling and puking in the nurse's arms".

It depends on what you want to accomplish.

Answer 3

I agree with the suggestion for Robert Frost. It's in the novel The Outsiders. I memorized over 20 years ago and I still remember it.

Answer 4

what about William Wordsworth? Daffodils
it's my favourite poem. I even recited a little bit of it at my best friend's wedding last year
I wander'd lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine


And twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretch'd in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they


Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,

In such a jocund company:
I gazed -- and gazed -- but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie


In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

Answer 5

This should be easier to memorize and recite. Try imitation and adjust tone accordingly: speaker, traveler, ozymandias

Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert… Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

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Of course if the memory cannot grasp all else,
Mother Goose rhymes can always save the day.


Baa, baa, black sheep,
Have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir,
Three bags full;

One for my master,
One for my dame,
And one for the little boy
That lives in our lane.

Good luck

Answer 6

This poem is only eight lines, and it's pretty easy to memorize ( I did it back in highschool and my memory is terrible) It's also a pretty poem. Enjoy@


Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

Answer 7

i think of battling by way of Woods is undemanding to memorize. (by way of Robert Frost.) Whose woods those are i think of i understand His house is in the village regardless of the indisputable fact that he won't see me battling right here to observe his woods top off with snow. My little horse could think of it queer, to resign devoid of a farmhouse close to between the woods and frozen lake The darkest night of the 365 days. He supplies his harness bells a shake to ask if there is a few mistake the only different sounds the sweep of undemanding wind and downy flake. The woods are stunning dark and deep, yet I unquestionably have supplies you to maintain And miles to pass till now I sleep And miles to pass till now I sleep. (I unquestionably have not study or recited that poem for numerous months. yet I remembered all yet one be responsive to it because of the fact it is rather elementary to memorize. The linking rhymes are a huge help.)

Answer 8

"Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost