Edssential article from @Kris_Boulton :
Memorisation is an active process. Remembering is passive. At least this is my inexpert claim; I would like to hear other people’s thoughts, based on what they’ve read.
Ah distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December…
In this line from Poe’s ‘The Raven’ it would make no sense for the narrator to be remarking ‘Ah distinctly I memorise…’ Not least that it would rupture the astounding internal rhyme and carefully measured meter of this masterpiece, with which I’m clearly a little bit in love, but it’s just not the right verb. Memorisation implies an action or series of