One Line of Poetry Changed My Life
Intermediate (B1) · Entertainment · 9 min · Free
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I remember the exact moment. Early March 2020, Montreal, right before the lockdown. My family and I were watching an old Syrian series, الفصول الأربعة, and in one episode, a character recited a single line of ancient poetry.
That line didn't leave me. In this video I tell you how a school subject I liked but never loved became a full obsession, what الشعر means to me now, and the slightly crazy idea it led me to: memorizing the longest of the Muallaqat, the great pre-Islamic odes. Did I actually do it? That's the next video.
