Reciting poetry
There’s nothing better for your memory than learning to recite poetry. And in addition then you have a piece of poetry always with you. You can take it out of your memory and enjoy the poem whenever you want to!
If you’ve never learned a piece of poetry before, start small, with one of these short poems:
When you’ve had a little practice, try to memorize some of these longer American poems:
- A Visit from St. Nicholas (Moore, 1823)
- The Arrow and the Song (Longfellow, 1845)
- Annabel Lee (Edgar Allan Poe, 1849)
- Arrival in the Land of Freedom (Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1853)
- The Party (Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1913)
- in Just- (e e cummings, 1920)
- The Old Gumbie Cat (T.S. Eliot, 1939)
- One Art (Elizabeth Bishop, 1976)
American Literature
Tom Sawyer Project
Prince and the Pauper Project
Bibliography and further reading about American literature:
