In Poems to Learn by Heart, Kennedy stresses the importance of memorizing poetry and presents a collection of poems that she believes everyone should internalize. "I think there's something in it ...

Hence the title: "Poems to Learn By Heart." "It was a combination of remembering my own childhood and thinking about gifts I'd been given," she said in an interview last week at her husband's ...

“L’infinito” is something like Italy’s national poem. Everyone knows it, or a great many know it. Know it by heart.

The Formula One driver Jochen Mass pursued a career of extreme jeopardy. But the detail that caught my eye in his Telegraph ...

Michael Wood observed that the poet “was the product of a memorizing culture in which huge chunks of literature were learned by heart.” Such “learning by rote,” Wood wrote, “offers many rewards, not ...

While everything else about school faded away, segments of poems I once drank in as nectar in English class still float into ...

The royal said: “If you have to learn something by heart you look at it properly and ... “You can have a little store where you have got all these poems in you for the rest of your life ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. You might have memorised and performed a poem in class before. This is called learning a poem ‘off by heart’.

For the most part, haiku in English have been either translations of old Japanese poems or originals that closely imitated Oriental terms and themes. Convinced that the form had other possibilitie ...

Are there poems you would like to memorize ... Maybe I should start learning the Psalms by heart so that nobody can take them away from me. Kevin then says, I’d like to memorize the Psalms.