I’d like to memorize poetry and historical speeches verbatim. I’m thinking I might first need a peg system for common words. Can any one give me any advice before I start te work needed to put a two hundred plus peg list together?
I’m not sure peg system is the correct term to use for what you want.
You want to be able to have images for common small words like ‘if’ and ‘and’ and so on?
I gave some advice about memorizing poetry a while back:
Maybe this helps?
Yes exactly.
If not calling that a peg system, what do I call it?
Kinma - very helpful. I had read that post from you previously and it is part of what inspired me to work on poetry. Thank you.
My concern is I’m very interested in verbatim memorization. Do you find your technique described here to be perfect in recall detail?
No, I don’t. For me it is easiest to start visualizing the nouns in a poem. So start with that.
After that try to recall and see what you missed.
If you need a system that let’s you memorize any text, you probably want to add symbols for punctuation, like Josh describes here: https://artofmemory.com/mnemonic-images-for-punctuation-marks-1742.html
Personally I would only add symbols for punctuation if they are in places where I would not expect them.
Awesome. Really helpful as always Kinma. Thank you! !
I’m not exactly sure, but ‘substitution’ or ‘common word replacement’ system sounds better, and less likely to be confused with a ‘peg list’ which is a different technique.