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Is there still a place for memorization of literature today? [F]orgetting to memorize was in vogue long before Google, Wikipedia, and the galaxy of search tools and near-universal online libraries we all enjoy gave us an easy way out. The Internet just reinforced a cultural disposition that began early in the 20th century, when educators who had themselves grown up laboring over dark Latin texts and jamming yards of Longfellows Song of Hiawatha into their heads ... In my experience, a poem once memorized is dramatically different from one you may have read a dozen times on paper or pixel. It has a different texture, a different sound, and it moves in different and sometimes surprising ways. I cant explain those differences but they somehow seem important. ow.ly/xWxdV
Posted on: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 20:00:44 +0000

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