@katharine.coles
Katharine Coles
@katharine.coles · 2:52

What poem/s do tou have by heart, and why?

If I can just mix some metaphors, I would love to hear from people what poems they have by heart and why those are the ones that they carry with them

#by heart #poems #swenson

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Arish Ali
@arish · 1:40

@katharine.coles Snow by Louis Macneice

So for whatever reason, this is something that has been memorized by me for a very, very long time. On this topic of memorizing lines, by the way, a lot of the poetry I listen to is Udo poetry and that there's a whole culture of kind of singing those poems by famous singers. So those you memorize anyways because you have listened to it so many times, those same poems by so many famous singers. So there are tons of lines
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Sreeja V
@Wordsmith · 1:02

I wandered lonely as a cloud

He had this collection, and he gave it to me one summer, and this poem somehow stuck with me, and these lines remained with me. And also that vision of gazing down at a sea of daffodils somehow that brings such peace to the heart. So, yeah, I wanted to share it here. Thank you
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Rocío (Ro) Christensen
@rocio · 1:44
For me, it was, of course, the letting the soft animal of your body love what it loves. And meanwhile, the world going on and the wild geese high in the clean blue air and are heading home again. And I loved? Yeah. I don't know. I love and fixate on different parts of the poem in different moments of my life lately. Been thinking about the ending so much
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Moe Johnson
@NeophyteSavant · 1:37

@katherine.coles

Good morning, Catherine. This is really interesting. What poem and or poems do you have by heart and why? I have quite a few and the reason is because I used to perform at a lot of open mic events prior to the Pandemic and other places that welcome poetry. And when I memorized my poems, it helped me to be able to engage my audience a lot better
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Katharine Coles
@katharine.coles · 0:56

@arish

You. Thank you for this response. Irish. I wonder if you know the poems of my good friend unfortunately now passed away Aga Shahid Ali who had many, many Urdu poems by heart. He was a Kashmiri poet. I tell my students all the time I will ask them this question what poems do you have by heart? And many of them will say oh, I don't have any. I've never memorized a poem
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Katharine Coles
@katharine.coles · 1:06

@r.o

Ro. This reminds me of what you were saying in response to a different poem about Borge son Punctum, which I thought was wonderful. I loved being reminded of camera Lucida. And you were talking about that moment and the way in which a photograph will pierce you, which is really what he was talking about, and applied that to poetry, which I think is really right
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Arish Ali
@arish · 0:54

@katharine.coles

Hi, Katharine. It's so amazing that you mentioned Professor Agar Shahidali. I was at UMass Amherst when he used to teach there. I was doing my Masters in Engineering, but I attended a few cultural events related to the poetry that he organized. He has also written a translation of Fezamat Fez, and Fez is my favorite Urdu poet of all times
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