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Songwriting with poetry

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Writing a melody to poetry, particularly well-known poetry can be a difficult task.

Poems are not written to become lyrics, but instead to speak of experience in a form of language not bound by the structure of prose.

 

"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal

which the reader recognizes as his own." 

                                                   Salvatore Quasimodo

 

For this project, we are looking for that middle ground where poems become lyrics and lyrics become poems.  

Choose a short poem (or a fragment from a larger poem) which is written by a famous poet. Some strong recommendations:

 

English/American poets-

D.H. Lawrence

Emily Dickinson

Langston Hughes

 

Non-English (in translations or original language)

Rainer Maria Rilke

Salvatore Quasimodo

Pablo Neruda

Izumi Shikibu

 

http://www.poemhunter.com/poets/

 

http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/

 

 

 

 

 

 

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