How to Memorize Poetry

Start with poems that are small and contain really strong imagery imagistic poems are great places to start. Emily Bronte's high waving heather conveys a sense of the everlasting that i get from nature that is incommunicable. Thomas Gray's elegy written in a country churchyard meditates on mortality but also connected with things around me. The power of poems to catch you at a moment in time and make the ephemeral everlasting or to catch you before time now great poems do both.