/memo/ -- Memorisation general thread. This thread is for t

i do not memorize, my brain automatically retains everything that i find meaningful, only the essence is kept

The Raven is quite a good one, it's use of repetition makes it quite easy to memorise

>>9731627
Yes that is generally how normal humans operate, the point is to precisely memorise, to heart works of literature which one wants to keep with them at all times.

>>9731659
just buy a usb disc m8 memory is cheap as heck these days

I'm currently memorising Platos allegory of the cave as well as the passages just before it that contextualise it. I'm planning on trying out Cicero's method of loci mnuemonic technique that is explained in ad herrenium, oratore, and Institutio Oratoria.

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There is a singer everyone has heard,
Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird,
Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again.
He says that leaves are old and that for flowers
Mid-summer is to spring as one to ten.
He says the early petal-fall is past
When pear and cherry bloom went down in showers
On sunny days a moment overcast;
And comes that other fall we name the fall.
He says the highway dust is over all.
The bird would cease and be as other birds
But that he knows in singing not to sing.
The question that he frames in all but words
Is what to make of a diminished thing.

>>9731581
>people memorizing translations
>pastebin suggests memorizing the entire fucking republic

Are y'all just try hards (probably good) or pseuds (definitely worthless)?

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I like to memorize speeches and soliloquies from Shakespeare. So far I've got To Be Or Not To Be, the Saint Crispin's Day Speech, Marc Antony's Funeral Oration, and the ending monologues from both The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Working on memorizing the "All upon the king!" soliloquy from Henry V next.

>>9732300
Who said anything about translations? I memorised plenty of the Iliad in the original Greek -- it is far more beautiful that way. The only time I would ever really want to memorise a translation would be the Bible -- English translations are just so ubiquitous there.

Also no one said anything about the entirety of The Republic, I just didn't have anything specific to point to so gave a general recommendation. The same section suggests Paine's work and I don't think that meant for anyone to memorise all of that.

It most certainly is quite a 'try-hard' pursuit, but it's also rewarding, fulfilling and impresses the hell out of people if you use such skills sparingly in a non-forced manner (if it's your primary motivation you won't get very far).