Years ago I discovered that there are many poems you don't have to wilfully memorize, but which you "learn" like you learn melodies, very quickly and totally un

Years ago I discovered that there are many poems you don't have to wilfully memorize, but which you "learn" like you learn melodies, very quickly and totally unconscious. For me, this includes for example Poe's "Raven" [0]. I once had a teacher who had memorized large parts of Goethe's "Faust" by accident, just by reading it every year she taught it in class. [0] https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48860/the-raven https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48860/the-raven