tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post8719449039307096508..comments2024-03-27T06:25:29.002-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: `Knock Me Sideways'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-50172474359942046662009-03-15T16:01:00.000-05:002009-03-15T16:01:00.000-05:00Most of my Introduction to Literature students at ...Most of my Introduction to Literature students at the university where I teach are usually inclined to resist poetry when we come up against in the syllabus, but when I begin the poetry portion of the course with Larkin's "This Be The Verse," it tends to open their minds to the down-to-earth possibilities of poetry and lets them set aside their preconceived, erroneous notions about incomprehensibility and irrelevance.R/Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07791522136032565027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-91686905685013947202009-03-13T10:56:00.000-05:002009-03-13T10:56:00.000-05:00Here's a nice little comment from Wyatt Mason abou...Here's a nice little comment from Wyatt Mason about memorizing poems:<BR/><BR/>http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/01/hbc-90004279<BR/><BR/>I have a few of Larkin's poems memorized (including "This Be the Verse," which is hard <I>not</I> to memorize). I'm rather pleased with myself for memorizing the opening of Richard III; I heard once that Lincoln had done the same.Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03430952115888694468noreply@blogger.com