Poetry: Music Without the Notes
Hello all , As you guys may know, I really love music . Like really love . In fact, I love it so much that I planned on teaching myself how to compose and somehow ended up wasting 7 months, waiting for Godot . Anyways now ( putting aside my laziness ), let's move onward After recently finishing the poetry unit in Ms. Knudson's class , I feel like I really miss poetry ( Absolutely not the essays we had to write on them though, screw those ). The reason being that poetry , in a way, is closer to music than anything else really is. The words and the phrases are reminscent of lyric bars in a song, except without any musical notes . In fact, when you hear the word " ballad ," what two things does it pertain to? Music and Poetry This is because ballad poems are extremely lyrical and very song-like , hence why it is called a ballad, like the music type ( which is the type I'm concerningly obssesed over ). When you read a ballad poem, you wou...