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<AmazonBook asin="0307267113" alt="Kipling: Poems: Edited by Peter Washington" />
</Bookshelf>
I used a simple spaced-repetition method to remember it. There are countless apps like [Anki](https://apps.ankiweb.net/) that use this method. I used an app called [NeuraCache](https://neuracache.com/) which can import the cards from Markdown. And recently, I found a [Flashcard-Based and Note-Based Spaced Repetition Plugin](https://github.com/st3v3nmw/obsidian-spaced-repetition) for [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md/), the note-taking app of my choice.
I used a simple spaced-repetition method to remember it. I used the spaced-repetition application [Anki](https://apps.ankiweb.net/), but there are other with similar features. And recently, I found a [Flashcard-Based and Note-Based Spaced Repetition Plugin](https://github.com/st3v3nmw/obsidian-spaced-repetition) for [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md/), the note-taking app of my choice.
Next, I learned the English translation of [Epitaph for “Poet’s Tomb”](https://www.poetryinternational.org/pi/poem/23081/auto/0/0/Shuntaro-Tanikawa/EPITAPH-FOR-POETS-TOMB/en/tile) by _Shuntaro Tanikawa_. I first heard the poem in the visual epitaph [Hikari](https://youtu.be/__xVbrDvunY) in 2017. The film remembers the Japanese poet Hiraki-san, who took her life after struggling with depression.
<YouTube id="__xVbrDvunY" />
Compared to **The Gods of the Copybook Headings**, this poem was easy to learn in 1-2 days. I’m struggling to remember it in Japanese, though.
Compared to **The Gods of the Copybook Headings**, this poem was easy to learn in 1-2 days. Learning it in Japanese took longer, but I can recite it now. I had to use the cloze feature of Anki to learn the sentences step by step. It also helped me to use AI to let the words and grammar explain to me. It improved my Japanese skills a lot.
The next poem on my list is [If—](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46473/if---) by _Rudyard Kipling_. <q>It provides traditional advice about how to live a good life</q> and <q>is considered to be one of the best examples of Victorian stoicism.</q>[^jenson2016ib]
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But it is a fantastic way to train the brain and to remember the wisdom of our ancestors. If we stop, we lose our culture and the teachings of the past. This will result in making the same mistakes, or as a quote, misattributed to _Mark Twain_[^research2014ej] says <q>History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.</q>
[^jenson2016ib]: Jamie Jenson (2016): _If— by Rudyard Kipling_, https://poemanalysis.com/rudyard-kipling/if/.
[^research2014ej]: Quote Research (2014): _History Does Not Repeat Itself, But It Rhymes_, https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/12/history-rhymes/.