What is the different between music and poetry?
Lets call music “emo poetry”. Poetry is the art of words. The best poets pick and choose their words because of the sounds they make and the feelings and emotions and meanings (actual and symbolic) that they convey. A good poet writes about 4-6 lines a day, I’ve heard. Music is poetry with an added element to it – pure sound. It still contains all the emotional components, and even the word meanings and everything that they convey, but it can also transmit the emotions of the words in an entirely different way and infinitely more intense way. Though the lyrics of some songs lack the depth of meaning that most poems have, no poem is accompanied by the sounds of a song. Saying that “music is poetry to a beat” is a really reductionistic way of putting it, if you ask me, because it doesn’t acknowledge the art of the sound. It also raises up all the crappy lyrics we have to a level that is way beyond the level of simple words that a lot of them are. Real poetry is about words, many of which
