tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759353.post3866222407449442713..comments2023-08-29T02:42:23.063-05:00Comments on ¡Bemsha SWING!: Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759353.post-12612624218513497052010-04-09T17:34:32.303-05:002010-04-09T17:34:32.303-05:00Well, those colleagues were, perhaps, never asked ...Well, those colleagues were, perhaps, never asked to try. Even someone who only had 1000 or 100 lines left 5 years later would have learned something important about prosody.<br /><br />But that figure of 10,000 is arbitrary. I don't know what more realistic number is. But I wonder how many lines the average student today could recite from memory at the time of graduation. I don't think only one kind of student would benefit from more memorization than (I imagine) is being encouraged these days.<br /><br />I think a lot of the time spent talking about what Shakespeare "meant" in today's classrooms could be better spent learning what Hamlet said.Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759353.post-43899508159593956612010-04-09T15:32:32.093-05:002010-04-09T15:32:32.093-05:00Then I guess a lot of my colleagues would not be a...Then I guess a lot of my colleagues would not be able to qualify for a B.A. in Spanish. I probably only know a third of that myself, it that, since I'm even a better forgetter than I am a memorizer. It would also tend to skew the curriculum in one particular direction and favor one kind of student. Out of fashion hardly cover it. <br /><br />Only the other hand, I can see that being part of a single course early in the major. There's be an oral exam in which each student was responsible for knowing a half dozen short poems.Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759353.post-230276316187254872010-04-09T15:22:04.170-05:002010-04-09T15:22:04.170-05:00It's out of fashion, but what's your opini...It's out of fashion, but what's your opinion of the idea of requiring that, say, a BA in Spanish literature will only be granted if the student can recite, say, 10,000 lines of Spanish poetry from memory. (Independent of the competence shown in the selection and interpretation of those poems.)Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.com