Learn an Essential Bardic Skill
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- What you carry in your mind in large part defines the atmosphere of your life. I vote we put POETRY in there to fill our lives with wisdom, beauty, and inspiration!
Tell us in the comments:
1. What poem do you intend to memorize?
2. What would you like to exclude or include to uplevel your life's atmosphere?
Also, please share if you have any special tips or tricks to memorize poems. Thank you!
TODAY'S POEMS
"Ulysses" by Lord Tennyson
"I Being Born, a Woman and Distressed" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost
WHAT IS THIS CHANNEL ABOUT?
It's about the power of poetry and creativity, the joy and fascination of Irish folklore and tradition, the philosophy of FAILTE (welcome) which is at the heart of Irish culture, stories, songs, art, savoring, and kindness. It's about everything I find beautiful, enlivening, worth thinking about and can't help myself from sharing with you.
WHO AM I?
I'm a poet, singer, storyteller, and scholar and teacher of Irish language and folklore with a PhD in Celtic Languages and Literatures from Harvard University where I've been teaching for the past 25 years. I also run the Bardic Academy, a school for singers, harpers, poets, and pianists, as well as the Celtic Wisdom School where we study Irish folklore with an eye to growing in creativity, wisdom, and joy.
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Thank you, Lovely Kate for producing these video lessons! Absolutely delighted!
Such a JOY to "see" you here! Just the other day, I told someone about your "champagne and hot nuts" life!
Sonnet 18, Sonnet 73, Sonnet 116
Shakespeare… anything Emily,anything you taught Aisy! All beautiful and profound.
What a beautiful challenge you have created! As you can see I’m excited! I am personally dedicating 20 min to each day to memorize poetry that “ sticks” to a part of my soul. This is a beautiful meditation of action!
Practice… dedicate to practice! Dedicate to finding PhD level education and understanding online! Kate is a wordsmith, a poet , a multi instrument bard,a writer a thinker on levels extraordinaire! Any who has found her and is willing to put in the time and dedication that she herself utilizes every day, will expand! Kate worked with our dear Aisy! We are sooo excited to find these new lessons! Please immerse yourself in this ancient Bardic wisdom! Much ❤!
Brava Kate!
Oh! I am truly grateful for your wonderful words, Deb, and send love to you and Aisy! BRAVO to you for dedicating time to memorizing poetry that lights up your heart and soul. These Bardic ways continue to nourish us, year after year. Such a JOY to see you here: thank you!!!!!!!!!!
Oh Mish❤! He was such a good hunter, such a great companion. Thank you for this wonderful insight and ancient wisdom ! “Memorizing is mesmerizing!!!!!”
Thank you for remembering my beloved Mishy so fondly. He really was a marvelous creature on this earth. Much missed and always loved.
I love to ponder the requirement that the highest grade of poet have three-hundred fifty tales by heart, a portable treasure-house and library. It's also interesting to think of how different poetic voices stead us at different times. I'm thinking of A.E. Housman in "A Shropshire Lad"; he's an old friend but we relate differently now. Thank you. "Loveliest of trees, the cherry now …"
Hayden, what a delight to "see" you here: thank you for visiting! I do know what you mean about the way those relationships with our poetic friends change over time and deliver a necessary ingredient at just the right time. Of all the poems in "A Shropshire Lad," you chosen far and away my favorite.
This is fantastic, Thanks for the amazing and inspiring video. The one I wish I could keep in my mind would be: The Road goes ever on and on- JRR Tolkien
Roads go ever ever on,
Over rock and under tree,
By caves where never sun has shone,
By streams that never find the sea;
Over snow by winter sown,
And through the merry flowers of June,
Over grass and over stone,
And under mountains in the moon.
Roads go ever ever on
Under cloud and under star,
Yet feet that wandering have gone
Turn at last to home afar.
Eyes that fire and sword have seen
And horror in the halls of stone
Look at last on meadows green
And trees and hills they long have known
The Road goes ever on and on,
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.
The Road goes ever on and on
Out from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
Let others follow it who can!
Let them a journey new begin,
But I at last with weary feet
Will turn towards the lighted inn,
My evening-rest and sleep to meet
Thank you so much for your very kind words, and thank you for bringing us this absolutely beauty of a poem! It's full of music, too, isn't it? Please keep me posted on your effort to memorize it. I'd do one stanza at a time, enjoying the rich imagery and language in each one. I see why you'd wish to carry this in your head. You make me want to, too!
Loving these visits Kate -- I began memorizing Dickinson many years ago, I find it has *so* *much* *power* coming out of me that way and often feels like she is speaking -- sometimes when I'm awake at night and unable to get back to sleep I lie awake and recite all that I can remember :) People so often forget about poems coming out of your mouth instead of just on the page -- there's a reason why when you study them they are referred to as having a *speaker* !
Hear, hear! What a glorious "cargo" you carry in the frigate of your mind, my friend. I agree with you entirely: the human voice with all its inflections and music completes the transmission of the poem. Thank you so much for bringing Emily to us here!
Well there you are; that's pretty much my own self realised way of memorising poems:
read, reread; write the whole thing out, write it again; then learn line by line - adding the lines as memory permits.
I've memorisd several of Wordsworth's nature poems.
"I wandered lonely..." because it's just delightful and tickles my whimsy.
"Clouds extend in solid bars..." for it's epic opening to the stars then deep down to Earth. And the end bit "...Pan himself, low whispering..." gives me shivery goosebumps every time.
It seems to me poets, particularly the Romantics(?) were/are rather free with punctuation, casting colons and semi's at whim. Of course the mores and strictures of punctuation and grammar change with the times.
Thankyou again for such thoughtful and thought provoking content.
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How wonderful to learn that you are out there, a fellow poetry-lover, devoting yourself to carrying in your mind and heart these lines that mean so much to you, and thank you for sharing your method for memorizing, too. Those "shivery goosebumps" are a powerful inducement to make the effort to remember - and so deeply worth it. Thank you so much for raising your hand for poetry and memory here!
Thaiks for doing this, Kate. Before the pandemic I had a memorized song repertoire of about 50 songs. I haven't memorized anything since. I need to get back to it. Oh, and I just wrote an "anti-praise poem":
Dán gan focail
Amhrán gan nótaí
Earrach gan éin
Farraige gan báid
Saol gan grá
A poem without words
A song without notes
A spring without birds
A sea without boats
A life without love
(The Irish is probably briste.)
A Mhícheáil a chara, maith thú ar fad: tá sin go hiontach, agus tá Gaeilge chruinn fhoirfe ann! WOW!!!
I haven't read much of poems but I like this one that I heard in the movie "Interstellar" ... "Do not go gentle into the good night"
Wouldn’t that be amazing? 350 it is! Onward bard!
That's a true beauty and one we can live with our whole lives. Here's another by Dylan Thomas that you might like (and among last lines, I think this one of the most beautiful I've ever read): "Fern Hill" - poets.org/poem/fern-hill. I hope you enjoy it, and thank you so much for your comment!
Yes: let's keep going. More treasures to enjoy!
Hi! I am 22, and getting more into poetry and reading these last few years. Somehow written language speaks more to me than speaking, and I’ve always loved semicolons, stops, and pauses- the emotions that can be perceived in a single line of thought! Sometimes that overthinking is a curse. Thank you so much for sharing this- and I wrote down “what else is there to do on planet earth?” To remember when I feel guilty for “stopping to smell the roses” (ie- memorize poetry, read, or relax in any way).
Thank you again for posting this!! I can’t wait to explore this world further!
Your words fill me with great joy: thank you! I love that you are taking a keen interest in the pleasures of language, and the details and nuances, too. Yes, I agree that this level of awareness can feel at times a little heavy, but it also opens the door to so much fascination, excitement, and a feeling of belonging with others of our tribe who love these things, too. YOU certainly belong in this tribe, and I am happy and grateful that you found your way here. Welcome with all my heart!
I'm currently memorizing my own poem Affirmations because it makes me feel really good to say it. Or rather sing it. I turned it into a song and now lines from it pop up automatically in my mind. 😊 You are so right about the thoughts we put in our minds!
Question: Was there also a tradition to sing poems or am I misremembering? I find that if I read a poem aloud a few times I sometimes fall into a melody 😊
I love that you're memorizing your poem: bravo! Yes, there is definitely a tradition of "setting" poems to music; I've realized a whole record of settings called "Songs of the Poets." It's a delicious process to pair beloved words with a melody. And Maron, I know YOU know so well about choosing good thoughts!