Relayer wrote: What exactly is the difference between a poetry and >song > >lyrics,anyway? > >
Sybil Responded: > According to my 10th grade English teacher, there is no difference. In an > effort to interest bored 15 year olds in poetry, our teacher brought in song > lyrics for us to study as poetry - Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Phil Ochs are some > I remember. And we went straight from that to T.S. Eliot. Her approach > worked. Just a big nod of agreement here Sybil. I too, used song lyrics in high school for poetry class, but it was MY idea and the one way to bring Joni to school with me! Sister Mary Anita was soooo easy to get off the track. She kinda dug Joni too! (Chelsea Morning & Electricity) I don't think IMHO that there is a difference between lyrics and poetry. I also recall Yoko Ono's version of the Rossetti poem, "Who Has Seen The Wind" showing a poem can become a song lyric, just as we have seen Joni's lyrics lay themselves out as poetry. Please refrain from any Yoko bashing! LOL! Certainly, some poems are not as song friendly or as purposeful as lyrical writing and vice versa. However, they are both word art. And festers may recall that Hell wrote one of those 2 forms, call it whichever you like, to which Marian added music. Which came first the lyric or the poem? That's meant to be rhetorical. And in closing Joni is most definitely a poet. Peace, Susan > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com
