Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Second Question...

Pretend that you are Granger in Fahrenheit 451.  For the preservation of cultural history, you are tasked with memorizing one book.  What book would you choose to memorize and why?  I would like to say I would choose to memorize The Complete Works of Emily Dickinson.  I think I've got about a quarter of them already.  And the rhythm and cadence of Dickinson's poetry does lend itself to easy memorization.  Now, if Emily had been able to publish during her lifetime, if she hadn't been so brash with a pen, if she hadn't been a woman, etc, etc...her work may have come out in volumes, and I could choose one of them to memorize, but alas, that didn't happen. So I would task myself with memorizing all of the nearly 1800 poems in the collection (and love every minute of it).

No comments:

Post a Comment