Actor Daniel Henshall's passion for reciting #poetry inspired this film, walking New York's streets with #Prufrockhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuvE1tfjNiU …
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Watch it. It's beautiful. Inspired me to go back and re-read TS Eliot
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"Shoot if you must this old grey head but spare your country's flag, she said." Never thought I'd ponder that up close & grey haired
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My mother recited that poem to us so long ago
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From the last page of Time, sometime in the 70s: She offered her honor, He honored her offer, And all night long, It was honor and offer.
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I memorize song lyrics, lots of lyric, but I haven't tried poetry. I'll try it!
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"learning literature by heart?" People barely even read past the headline lol this is cute of you NYT.
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You had a paltry education, sir. Probably without nuns. You name it I can quote it.
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Spare me of the anti-science/logic fairy tales. But I envy generations who had to go to libraries to acquire an education. Times have changd
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I can google with the best but an educated person should know how and where to find info to build on your own knowledge.
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It's about knowing what terms to google and which sources to trust. People need to learn how to think critically. Logically.
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The author could definitely validate her opinion in Iran: here, we are all intertwined with memorized verses.
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Only thing I can say to disagree: I've never stopped requiring memorization of poems in my 30+ yrs of uni teaching....& enacting plays too.
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Why don't you guys take the road less traveled by--you know, that one marked "Real Journalism"?
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The NYT will ne telling this story ages and ages hence ... when DJT is a sad footnote in history... and that will make all the difference
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"O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills," Walt Whitman
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Americans would do better to spend less time memorising and more time learning about the world beyond the United States.
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