Pick a poem, memorize it, post it!

So I spied Harold Bloom's How to Read and Why book on my shelves the other day. It was one of those paperback freebies I scooped up at S&S, but never really read. He gave some of advice on reading and understanding poetry:

I have arrived at a first crux in how to read poems: wherever possible, memorize them. Once a staple of good teaching, memorization was abused into repeating by rote, and so was abandoned, wrongly. Silent intensive rereadings of a shorter poem that truly finds you should be followed by recitations to yourself, until you discover that you are in possession of the poem. You might start with Tennyson's beautifully orchestrated "The Eagle":

He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.

If you memorize "The Eagle," you may come to feel that you have written it, so universal is the poem's proud longing.

So here's a project, ladies and gentlemen! Bloom goes on to talk about pre-modern poets such as Dickinson, Shelley, Wordsworth, Keats and Shakespeare. He discusses Sonnet 144. I'm going to memorize this poem and if I get the nerve, I'll record myself reciting it and post it on the blog. Who would like to join me? Pick a poem, memorize it, post it. And even if you don't post it, memorize one. It's got to be good for the soul (and the brain!)