I’m horrible at memorizing stuff. I was every elocution teacher’s worst nightmare. I’d start off reciting a poem beautifully, then lose track a little before the end and then to top it all off, I’d make up my own lines as I went along. My short-lived elocution stint even puts my brief fling with music lessons to shame (I still remember Mrs. N, my music teacher once groaning “Child! You’re playing the PIANO. You’re NOT thumping flour!” at me in abject despair)
So, there are very few poems I know, by heart. This is one of them. I really had no need to memorize it for academic purposes or anything. It’s one of those poems that grow on you over time, until you realize that you’ve committed it to memory unconsciously.
The best kind of poetry, really.
Fire and Ice
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Robert Frost
Ps: Also, this. 🙂
A Silly Poem
Said Hamlet to Ophelia,
I’ll draw a sketch of thee,
What kind of pencil shall I use?
2B or not 2B?
Spike Milligan
Heheheh the silly poem is quite silly 😀
The silly poem is oh so facepalm-y 😛
I’ve a poem that I seem to have memorised for no apparent reason. It’s called Colonel Fazackerley but I don’t recall the poet who wrote it.
The first verse goes like this-
Colonel Fazackerley Butterworth- Toast
Bought an old castle complete with a ghost
But someone or other forgot to declare
To Colonel Fazack that a spectre was there
It’s really funny but it’s also quite insightful when you really think about it.
This was in my OL english lit anthology!
very lovely poems i enjoyed them. well done from kevin.
Aah, Charles Causley, I think. And yes, it was in the O/L anthology. 🙂