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Mine is Annabelle Lee or The Raven both by Poe.

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My personal favorite is Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

To make nearly an entire poem out of gibberish is just great.

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I'm actually memorizing The Raven. I just got through the first paragraph (verse? whatever the hell they call it) tonight, just started like 4 or 5 days ago. I'm gunna be the toast of all the parties once I get it all memorized 😀.....


Cause that's what chicks like, right? 😳 Poe? Meh?...

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yes i memorized it as well. took me a week. i would sing it at work at the end of the shift while i worked (nobody else was around) just like singing a favorite song while you work right?

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Originally posted by Fat mans revenge
My personal favorite is Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

To make nearly an entire poem out of gibberish is just great.
Hey! That was gonna be my answer!

Great poem though, use to know it by heart when I was a kid.

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Originally posted by Starryknight14
yes i memorized it as well. took me a week. i would sing it at work at the end of the shift while i worked (nobody else was around) just like singing a favorite song while you work right?
...Uh huh, well I've been memorizing a line a night, just figuring that'd be the easiest way to make sure I get it all. I recite it every night to a friend of mine on the phone and I'll have it all down eventually.

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i would repeat a verse over and over and then start from the beginning over and over until i had it down then to the next verse.

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Originally posted by Starryknight14
i would repeat a verse over and over and then start from the beginning over and over until i had it down then to the next verse.
Well my way is working fine, but thanks. 🙂


Edit: Do you have the Complete Works of Poe? It's every poem/story he's written. It's really been an amazing read for me for the last couple years, going back to my favorite poems, favorite stories, etc etc. It's really great.

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Originally posted by seraphimvulture
... Do you have the Complete Works of Poe? ...
That was an impulse buy for me a couple of years ago at a warehouse store. I still haven't read all the stuff in it. I remember in particular a story about being stranded at sea.

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I like Chakan - The Forever Man

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My favourite poems I guess are the handful I can recite or lugubriously sing (for the benefit of my son): Jabberwocky, The Owl & The Pussycat & The Quangle Wangle Quee (last two by the other Nonsense Guy, Edward Lear).

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There's a good archive of poetry to download at http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/

www.ubu.com used to have great stuff but the project was wound up a month or two ago....

I'd be interested to know if anyone knows of any other sites with downloadable spoken word material (poems, stories...). Anything that you really like.

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
There's a good archive of poetry to download at http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/

www.ubu.com used to have great stuff but the project was wound up a month or two ago....

I'd be interested to know if anyone knows of any other sites with downloadable spoken word material (poems, stories...). Anything that you really like.
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Originally posted by Chakan
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Haven't heard of any of these poets! Thanks, should be interesting.