Poems for the development of memory

Each person at some point has to turn to poetry. But not everyone is able to perceive verses and keep them in their heads.

Poems are easier to remember than prose, because they have their own rhythmic pattern, rhyme and emotional background. Memorizing poetic lines by heart is recommended for the development of memory. During this process, neurons are additionally supplied with blood. This helps to reduce the risk of blood clots, improve the quality of the walls of blood vessels, increase the patency of the signal between neurons. In the brain structures between cells, new connections are formed that stimulate cognitive processes and other personality abilities.

The rhythm, melody, imagery, emotional content of poetic works allow the brain to quickly engage in the process of memorization and fix lines connected in a natural way in memory. In this case, the formation of the following qualities:

• development and enrichment of speech;
• vocabulary replenishment;
• expansion of erudition;
• improved diction;
• stimulation of public speaking ability.

Memorizing even a few poetic lines has a positive effect on the biochemical processes of brain structures. Memorizing verses is necessary for training memory in children and adults. It should take into account the individual characteristics of the perception of each person. An individual with motor memory, wonderfully remembers poetry, if it is accompanied by gestures and pantomime. A well-developed visual memory involves memorizing poetic material from a printed publication.People who perceive information well by ear are advised to memorize the text at the time of the sound recording, while it is advisable to pronounce it aloud.

To improve the fixation in the memory of verses, mnemonic techniques are used that activate imaginative thinking. The main mistake in memorizing a poetic work is focusing on words, trying to keep them in your memory.

In childhood, clear rhymed phrases are easy to remember. Developing quatrains should not consist of difficult and incomprehensible words. The smallest ones for quick memorization are recommended for short poems with fascinating content. The verses of Agnia Barto, Samuel Marshak, Elena Blaginina, Korney Chukovsky, Sergei Mikhalkov are suitable for kids. Older children are offered to learn poems about nature. They are offered to reproduce tongue twisters in a certain rhythm, so that they resemble poems.

We give examples of such tongue twisters.

• Vika chews blackberries, magpie pecks strawberries.
• Hay Senya Kostya mows, in the canopy Senya carries hay. Senya carries hay in the canopy, Senya will sleep on the hay.

In the future, children get acquainted with more voluminous verses. They are advised to take the works of A.S. Pushkin, M.Yu. Lermontova, A.T. Twardowski. High school students list of poetry A.S. Pushkin should be expanded.

Adults are best suited for memorizing favorite poems of famous poets. They are usually understood by the reader. A clear rhythm of the poem gives the process of fixation in memory lightness and joy. Complex brain train well.

Poetic collections are published in sufficient quantities. If necessary, any poems can be found on the Internet. To study for every day they suggest choosing works by Fyodor Tyutchev, Athanasius Fet, Vladimir Mayakovsky.

Memorizing verses daily for 15 minutes is a prevention of memory problems. The ability to keep the necessary information in the head is developed. Elderly people are able to maintain clarity of mind and a solid memory.

Eidotechnology is used to memorize verses effectively. It is based on figurative representations without the inclusion of logical thinking. The poem is recommended to remember line by line. It is necessary to visually turn each line into a bright picture. Created images must obey a certain rhythm.

For example, try to "revive" a poem F. Tyutcheva "Morning in the mountains." First you need to mentally combine the first 2 lines and create colorful images. The word "azure" is associated with the name Lazarus, so you can imagine a loud biblical character in blue skies. At this moment, part of the sky is getting dark. In a black sky dotted with bright stars, there is a lightning discharge, from which a stream of water washes Lazarus.

Then you need to imagine the mountains. An unusual dialect, formed from the word "dew" for better memorization in the imagination, is replaced by the word "racists". Maybe someone will introduce people with different skin colors on a zigzag light strip of a valley located between the mountains. And again the lines are pronounced in rhythm with the mental representation of the newly created vivid picture.

The following quatrains can be visualized as follows. Imagine the mountains in lush dresses, as if they are in high society, at an old ball. Ball gown is visible only to half. Next is a huge blanket woven from fog. A misty veil hung over a cartilaginous fish with a flat body, the name of which coincides with the word meaning a gentle slope.In imagination, you can combine these two concepts and imagine a stingray on an inclined surface covered with a foggy blanket.

The last lines are imagined in the form of beautiful medieval chorus, created from fragmentary clouds, a kind of air ruins. The brighter the image is created, the easier the stanza will be remembered.

The option to train memory by memorizing verses is suitable for people of all ages. They recommend starting training with 4 lines per day. After a day, they should be reproduced from memory and add another stanza to them. It is necessary to attach every day more and more new lines with daily repetition of already learned material. Each subsequent month, the number of learned lines should be doubled. For memory training, it is advised to repeat the stanzas learned in the very first month.

With the subsequent increase in the load, learning verses of any complexity is not difficult, since the ability to memorize and play the rhymed text is improved. With repeated repetition, poetry is long remembered. To memorize, you need to choose the time of the peak of health, for example, the morning hours.

Learning rhyming strings is necessary for adults. The effectiveness of memorization is facilitated by their double reading. You need to grasp the meaning of what you read and retell in your own words. The whole work is divided into small semantic blocks. Logical connections make it possible to remember the poetic text well.

Strict observance of intonation and pauses facilitate memorization. In the process of memorization, you can peek into a book, mentally imagine the plot or try to imagine yourself in the place of the hero. The learned material from memory is fixed on a piece of paper. The following days require the reproduction of verses aloud.

In preschoolers, the brain is actively developing, so memorizing rhymes is of great benefit to them. It is best to use simple, short rhymed rhymes. If only the kid understood the meaning of each word. They recommend explaining their meaning to the child, otherwise, during the reproduction of poems, incomprehensible words will cause hesitation and hitch.

For better memorization, you need to select interesting and informative verses without complex verbal constructions. The introduction of game elements develops the creative abilities of the baby. An effective way of memorizing with a parallel story on behalf of the animal with the image of its inherent movements. The child must recite the poem on behalf of a bear, fox, raven, chicken to complete memorization of the text. Poems must be appropriate for age.

• Children 3-4 years old offer quatrains with an abundance of nouns and verbs. The kid must understand what is at stake. Quatrains read slowly, using colorful intonation and facial expressions. This reproduction of verses makes memorization easier. The adult begins to utter a stanza, the child continues it.
• By 4-5 years at kids the motivation to memorize a poem begins to form. The kid seeks to learn and tell him in order to demonstrate his skills to adults. In this case, they recommend taking more complex verses. The process of memorizing is facilitated when memorizing a work in roles with acting out individual scenes. For example, feeding a doll or rocking a bear.
• Children 5-6 years old able to master more voluminous and complex verses. They can analyze the actions of the heroes, imagine themselves in their place, recall similar life stories and answer questions on the subject of the work.
• By 6-7 years logical thinking is being formed, so children should be encouraged to portray the heroes of the work themselves on a piece of paper. To connect the logical memory of the child, the beginning of the poem is read with a request for retelling of further content.

Adults show willpower to memorize verses, and children can resist this process. The child must get used to the poetic speech and be able to perceive it. To work with kids, you must adhere to the following recommendations:

• it is necessary to acquaint with verses from infancy;
• repeat rhyming works should be during walks, various games;
• poetry must be recited expressively, with emotional inspiration;
• the selected material should correspond to the age of the little man;
• all words should be clear to the baby;
• it is advisable to illustrate poetic texts with drawings.

It is recommended to begin memorizing the poem a few days before the required time. It is necessary to highlight the main characters, to penetrate the feelings and emotions of the poet. A vivid representation of images and events enhances perception and memorization. Effective memorization is facilitated by rewriting stanzas on a piece of paper, slow reading of rhyming phrases, facial and gesture accompaniment.

Some experts recommend making a cheat sheet, in which only the first letters of all the lines are shown in a column. It is proposed to use the principle of "snowball" when memorization is carried out by growth. First remember the first line, then 2 start lines, then 3 and all subsequent ones together.