Poetry Chicken Soup For The Mind

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I was watching a TV documentary about kids being taught 1950s style. One of the things they did back then was to remember poetry. When I thought about it there are many benefits for someone with Asperger Syndrome:

1. Improves memory. I have noticed that in my workplace that there is one person who is very socially gifted and he has very good memory for remembering non events like facts and trivia and spelling. The kind of things I have big problems remembering.
2. Improves punctuation. My punctuation needs improving and better understanding of punctuation will also improve spoken English too.
3. Improves vocabulary. Not only will I have more words to express how I feel but I will be able to use words better to express how I feel.
4. Think of Feelings not Objects. I think that aspies often talk about things and people as objects . So it is like we communication is Object Oriented. Poetry can tern this into Feeling Oriented Communication, they way that most NTs especially women think.
5. It can wow the women.

"Brush up your Shakespeare,
Start quoting him now.
Brush up your Shakespeare
And the women you will wow.
Just declaim a few lines from "Othella"
And they think you're a heckuva fella.
If your blonde won't respond when you flatter 'er
Tell her what Tony told Cleopaterer,"

The gangsters' song from "Kiss Me Kate"
(A musical versoon of "The Taming of the Shrew"
http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/kissmeka ... speare.htm)