Sentence examples for learning a poem from inspiring English sources
Learning a poem by heart - while it may be time consuming at first - is liberating.
He discovers, to his surprise, that learning a poem is harder than memorising a string of nonsense numbers or the order of a shuffled deck of cards.
One legacy to his daughter (whom he favoured, since he regarded her as the cleverest of his children) was the discipline of daily learning a poem or a piano sonata and the acquisition of fluent English, a consequence of sending her abroad to holiday alone.
One evening in June 1969, at the end of my university course, I started to learn a poem.
"Once you learn a poem you can walk down the street and the drugstore is no longer there.
Learn a poem off by heart and see how you find reciting it from memory To be a poet, you have to write poetry.
Next month the International Poetry Challenge, which has Andrew Motion as its patron, challenges people of all ages to learn a poem off by heart and recite it to at least one other person.
At grammar school in Gillingham, when the rest of us had to learn a poem to recite to the class, David Frost somehow got the teacher's permission to tell jokes instead.
Like many writers I had an influential English teacher – pale, austere Miss Morris, who expected us to learn a poem by heart each week: Shakespeare, Milton, GK Chesterton, Keats, Shelley, Sitwell, Wilde... We also wrote a weekly composition: "A Day in the Life of a Penny" and "I am a Chippendale Chair".
The children learned a poem about a rainbow and made pictures of raindrops.
