Please explain, and I mean no disrespect, how can you be "musically challenged" while you have been a poetry teacher? I think lyrics and poetry are often interchangeable. I can't see anyone singing an E.E. Cummings poem while I can't deny the poetry in Bob Dylan's "Tangled Up in Blue." Help me out if you can.
I take no offense :) I’ve talked about this in other videos. But music, especially its modern iteration, supersedes lyrics. One can have a bad ear for musical rhythm and tempo but understand words. Even in my poetry readings I tend to stress meaning AND sound, but I lean toward meaning because I personally am more capable of that. There are others who are better at the sound component and I respect them for that :)
@@Just-a-Guy1 Bells is fantastic! I once saw a fantastic recital of that by a Poe impersonator at a Dickens Faire in San Francisco. You are right that that is quite musical
My favorite rock lyricist is Bruce Springsteen. Probably the greatest illustration of his genius is the song Jungleland.
highly suggest either tambourine man or hard rains gonna fall by bob dylan to appreciate his poetry.
Yes! Those are on my list.
Please explain, and I mean no disrespect, how can you be "musically challenged" while you have been a poetry teacher? I think lyrics and poetry are often interchangeable. I can't see anyone singing an E.E. Cummings poem while I can't deny the poetry in Bob Dylan's "Tangled Up in Blue." Help me out if you can.
I take no offense :)
I’ve talked about this in other videos. But music, especially its modern iteration, supersedes lyrics.
One can have a bad ear for musical rhythm and tempo but understand words. Even in my poetry readings I tend to stress meaning AND sound, but I lean toward meaning because I personally am more capable of that. There are others who are better at the sound component and I respect them for that :)
@@TroubadourChannel I get it. Sometimes I see poetry as visual music. Poe’s “The Bells” for example. 🙂
@@Just-a-Guy1 Bells is fantastic! I once saw a fantastic recital of that by a Poe impersonator at a Dickens Faire in San Francisco. You are right that that is quite musical