Recitation is fast on its way to becoming a lost art. I remember when I was younger, my brother and I took part in poetry concerts. We used to recite short poems from the collection "Poems from the Ark."
Recently I've revived the part of my brain that deals with memorization and taken to learning poetry again. The poem I have committed to memory right now is the poem Gimli recites in Moria..."In Moria, in Khazad-Dum." It's always been one of my favorites from the books, and it's got a really alluring rhythm. I also know Sam's "In Western Lands," though I prefer to sing it.

Which poems are your favorite? I should make the point that I've never been a poetry 'fan' really. But for every hundred poems not worth reading, there are a few gems!
And one doesn't have to stick to poems. Short stories, songs, what have you committed to memory purposely?

I need more ideas for memorization fodder, so let me know what your favorites are!

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^ By me and my SS *squiggle hugs*

I still half-remember Jabberwocky (from Alice in Wonderland, or Alice Through the Looking Glass?) from a long time ago, and I'm memorizing five or six poems as a part of my literature course for school. I also have Aragorn's poem memorized ("All that is gold does not glitter...") and Galadriel's Song. Tolkien's stuff pretty much pwns

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^ By me and my SS *squiggle hugs*

Beware the Jabberwock my son,
The claws that catch, the jaws that bite,
Beware the _____ and shun....

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Never officially memorized that one. I love reciting things, it's something we need to get started in our homeschool group here - a recitation night. We had one every year in our homeschool group and I looked forward to it all year.

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^ Our homeschool group used to have a recitation night; it was so much fun! It kind of died, though...

*thinks* My favorite poems would have to be "
"Jabberwocky" and the "Destruction of Sennacherib." Always liked those. ^^

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I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?

Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.

^I plan on memerizing that poem "The Arrow and the Song" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I had also memerized the first song in the Hobbit.

Chip the glasses and crack the plates,
Blunt the knives and bend the forkes,
That's what Bilbo Baggins hates,
Smash the bottles and burn the corks.

Ah... but that was almost a year ago... And I almost had the "Far Over the Misty Mountains" song memorized at one time.

Edit:
And last year I memorized and recited for school half of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a Dream" speech.

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