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What’s the difference between remembering and memorising?

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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

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