If you have not, take your dictionary and find out what they mean. When you listen to a song you must try to get the message in the lyrics.
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Nonetheless, in the general sense of the word, music is poetry and has always been poetry. The two go together like peas in a pod.
Article is below Category: Poetry. Some of the similarities are: Rhythm Expression Emotion Songs themselves have to be rhythmic. You may also enjoy: Movies Made From Poetry. Privacy Policy Terms and Conditions. All rights reserved. There is a strong, undeniable connection between music and poetry that has kept both of them alive for years. You may not see them at first but there are many aspects of each category that overlap.
For one thing, both music and poetry have features of rhythm. Poems also have aspects of sound just like song lyrics and poetry is meant to be heard just as a song is. One can read a poem quietly, but it has more power when read aloud to other people since they can then hear the sounds that are made, and they can convey mood, feeling and tension. The same can be said for song lyrics which also have a particular sound that is used to exhibit a specific mood or feeling.
The words that make up song lyrics can be happy, sad or angry; just like the sentences of a poem. There is a natural flow that is evident in the words of a poem and similarly in the lyrics of a song. Often times there are repetitions in both songs and poems, this is what gives them a flow and rhyme. Songs, like poetry, are often designed to tell a story and may be set in a specific time and place. With that in mind, folk lyrics are probably the easiest to compare with poems which speak about the life and times of ordinary people.
You can also find deep emotion in the poems of Sylvia Plath. The biases inherent in such a widespread distinction do a disservice to both poetry and song. By holding poetry to a literary standard, and either granting or denying that standard to song lyrics, we locate the worth of an artistic endeavor in the most superficial qualities of language, ones that are actually peripheral to what makes a poem worthwhile. In fact, I do think there are important and fascinating differences between lyrics and poems, just not the ones that are usually focused on.
Without all that musical information, lyrics usually do not function as well, precisely because they were intentionally designed that way.
The ways the conditions of that environment affect the construction of the words refrain, repetition, the ways information that can be communicated musically must be communicated in other ways in a poem, etc. As for the question of whether poems can function as song lyrics, the answer seems to be, in the right hands, absolutely yes.
These composers recognize, it seems to me, the essential qualities of language in poetry. These musical artists use their considerable skill and sensitivity to design music that moves around and with the poems, never overloading them with musical information or tormenting them into overly strained forms to serve a musical structure, two of the most noticeable qualities of failed musical-poetic collaborations.
To say that this means song lyrics are less literary than poems, or require less skill or intelligence or training or work to create, is patently absurd and, in the case of rap music, patronizing. But that does not mean that song lyrics are poems. They might sometimes accidentally function like poems when taken out of a musical context, but abstracting lyrics from musical information is misleading and beside the point.
It seems to me far more productive to ask how lyrics in songs relate to musical information, and how poems relate to the silences cultural and actual that surround them, and to recognize that lyrics and poetry, while different genres with different forces and imperatives, have both more and less in common than we might think, and are endeavors of equal value. Confronting the many challenges of COVID—from the medical to the economic, the social to the political—demands all the moral and deliberative clarity we can muster.
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