{"id":2021,"date":"2013-01-28T15:44:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T19:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=2021"},"modified":"2013-01-28T15:48:07","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T19:48:07","slug":"brad-leithauser-why-we-should-memorize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2013\/01\/28\/brad-leithauser-why-we-should-memorize\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Leithauser: Why We Should Memorize"},"content":{"rendered":"

Core classes extensively explore poetry. Here is an essay on the topic of memorizing poetry – whether we should do it, and if so, why and how? An excerpt:<\/p>\n

Anyone equipped with a smartphone\u2014many of my friends would never step outdoors without one\u2014commands a range of poetry that beggars anything the brain can store. Let\u2019s say it\u2019s a gorgeous afternoon in October. You\u2019re walking through a park, and you wish to recall\u2014but can\u2019t quite summon\u2014the opening lines of Keats\u2019 \u201cTo Autumn.\u201d With a quick tap-tap-tap, you have it on your screen. You\u2019re back in the nineteenth century, but you\u2019re also in the twenty-first, where machine memory regularly supplants and superannuates brain memory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Find the full essay at\u00a0http:\/\/nyr.kr\/XN1xoS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Core classes extensively explore poetry. Here is an essay on the topic of memorizing poetry – whether we should do it, and if so, why and how? An excerpt: Anyone equipped with a smartphone\u2014many of my friends would never step outdoors without one\u2014commands a range of poetry that beggars anything the brain can store. Let\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[898,2534,4854,4261],"tags":[37503,3917,37501,37499,197,37500,644,37383],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2021"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2024,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions\/2024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}