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Tricks of Memory : poems (1980) "Uneasy Eden : peace and conflict in a rural community" [pamphlet] (1997) Visited (1983) Margaret Scott's poetry has been featured in a number of anthologies including: The best Australian poetry 2004 (2004) Effects of light: the poetry of Tasmania (1985) New music: an anthology of contemporary Australian poetry ...
For example, after relating the story of how Simonides relied on remembered seating arrangements to call to mind the faces of recently deceased guests, Stephen M. Kosslyn remarks "[t]his insight led to the development of a technique the Greeks called the method of loci, which is a systematic way of improving one's memory by using imagery."
Discov'ring poetry no numerals jarred. Note that in this example, 10-letter words are used to represent the digit zero. Other poems use sound as a mnemonic technique, as in the following poem [13] which rhymes with the first 140 decimal places of pi using a blend of assonance, slant rhyme, and perfect rhyme: dreams number us like pi. runes shift.
A number of people claim to have eidetic memory, but science has never found a single verifiable case of photographic memory. [1] [2] Eidetic imagery is virtually nonexistent in adults. [3] Most people showing amazing memory abilities use mnemonic strategies, mostly the method of loci.
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A poetry review in The New York Times called "Songs of the transformed" "a splendid series of animal poems ... [able] to capture the natural world and yet to manage to make a larger statement.", [1] and Manijeh Mannani of Athabasca University found that it "continue[s] the same thread of feminist concerns [of her previous poetry] with only the concluding poems of the collection reflecting the ...
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