{"id":2291,"date":"2013-03-27T13:17:07","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T17:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=2291"},"modified":"2013-03-27T13:17:07","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T17:17:07","slug":"auden-on-memorizing-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2013\/03\/27\/auden-on-memorizing-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Auden on Memorizing Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Relating to the Core&#8217;s study of W.H. Auden is an article about his insistence on memorizing poetry. Here is an extract:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Auden would insist that the boys in his class learn poem after poem by heart. Even parrot-fashion. Auden said it didn&#8217;t matter whether they understood them. If they learnt the poems now, they would not forget them and maybe, later in life, they would understand them. &#8220;It&#8217;s true,&#8221; the painter told me, &#8220;I can still remember them.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the full article, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/109BXx1\">bit.ly\/109BXx1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relating to the Core&#8217;s study of W.H. Auden is an article about his insistence on memorizing poetry. Here is an extract: Auden would insist that the boys in his class learn poem after poem by heart. Even parrot-fashion. Auden said it didn&#8217;t matter whether they understood them. If they learnt the poems now, they would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[898,3857,4854,4261],"tags":[2235,37501,3335,197,45026,37456,45024],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291"}],"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=2291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2292,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291\/revisions\/2292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}