The Reflexive Relationship Between Poetry and Memory

If we are getting absolutely no pleasure from what we're reading whatsoever then we're not going to feel part of that literary club. If we're enjoying it if we're seeing something of ourselves in the writing then we feel part of the club these books are for usThese poems are for us and so when we talk about possessing a poem by memory or memorizing poetry it may look like rote learning but repetition most certainly is at the heart of it. Your poems will choose you and the ones who have chosen me come from William Blake, Emily Bronte, William Shakespeare, Shelley,. Keats, Emily Dickinson, Wallace, Stevens, Thomas Gray, Milton.