The Motions Of The Dipping Birds: The Morning's Amber Road

Christopher M. Henley
Survey of American Lit.
03/28/2013

Memorization and Technique

One human may look at the color of any given object and simply be able to bring back the factual description when asked upon from another after that object is away from them. The first steps to memorization for any individual is to make a choice, whether they want to memorize something or not and for what reasons they will do so. This might be simple memorization to all capable or possibly just for a few selected individuals. The key to memorization could begin with all making a relation to an object, not only for description but for understanding any given material, whether a car, movie, or even a conversation between two people which is what I have
At the start of the semester instructions were to memorize a selected poem by Emily Dickinson (336) with using a physical memorization style. This method indeed did prove itself to become useful considering all of the physical descriptions in the work like “The Motions of the Dipping Birds- The Morning’s Amber Road” which helps each statement flow into the next easily. Another situation I would use the physical memorization technique is with Robert Frost-Acquainted with the Night. During this poetry, I not only formed emotional relation to the passage but the style of the work is actually physically descriptions of a scene, which allowed myself to close my eyes and personally witness the poetry become a scene. For each line gives a clip for a scenic imagery to the reader, “I have looked down the saddest city lane”, which easily made myself remember the countless days and nights that I looked down empty, dirty, Inhabitable streets and thought those familiar words. These two works gave me an easy
“Who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household?” this is a short ending line from Danse Russe by William Carlos Williams that ultimately made me change my whole direction of the poetry from when I first read the material after understanding it fully. Another aspect of the poem that gave me insight to it is with the word “if”. It offers uncertainty to the reader which does not allow us to gain the knowledge if this actually happened or just an imagination. If I were not to repeatedly read and speak the poetry, certain words will not gain my attention unless I write it out memorizing each word as I write. A contrast to William Williams is with Huswifery once again. With the first few attempts of my own technique to memorize the poem, it worked but with little memorization of the actual phrases and just on the single words I choose and found no insight with the poem for the first few days of reading the material. It was not until after the three handfuls of attempts to understand the poem when reading it that I finally came to understand its entirety. Finally when I was to read Edward Taylors piece with understanding, I then found odd coincidences within the material. It appears he made a multi-layered metaphor. Combining himself to be the Spinning Wheel and