How to Memorize Poems

i defy anyone to read milton's paradise lost slowly and not want to simply roll whole passages over in their mouths become the characters connect with what motivates them now can we memorize all of paradise lost well barely bloomed it he would walk around campus at yale and students would shout out line numbers book three line 360 and he would just recite whole passages which is very impressive but people forget that this was a man who for decades and decades and decades reread these poems. i've noticed that with no effort i have whole snatches of novels in my mind now i say no effort which is kind of misleading because the effort is ostensibly therethese are novels that i have reread aloud over