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About Poems & Poetry (कवितायेँ के सन्दर्भ में )

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What is poem or poetry?

Poetry is the use of words and language to evoke a writer's feelings and thoughts, while a poem is the arrangement of these words. ... Poetry is the process of creating a literary piece using metaphor, symbols and ambiguity, while a poem is the end result of this process.

 

What is the difference between poems and poetry?

Key Difference: Poem is a piece of writing that has features of both speech and song, whereas the poetry is the art of creating these poems. Poetry is also used to refer to poems collectively or as a genre of literature. ... They are written in metrical rhythmical lines.

 

Is poetry like music?

Songs themselves have to be rhythmic. As well, poetry flows just the same. Rhythm is what makes music as well as poetry. ... Although they are the only type directly related to melody, lyrical poetry is definitely not the only poetic form which can be made into a song.

 

Is poetry the same as rap?

To state the obvious, things can share certain attributes and not be the same sort of thing, and asking whether rap is poetry has always struck me as a useless question. Both rap and poetry use literary devices like assonance and alliteration. Both use words. Both are spoken.

 

What is a spoken word poetry?

It is an oral art that focuses on the aesthetics of word play and intonation and voice inflection. It is a 'catchall' which includes any kind of poetry recited aloud, including hip hop, jazz poetry, poetry slams, traditional poetry readings and can include comedy routines and 'prose monologues'.

 

What are the different types of poetry?

• Haiku. Many people have heard about haiku. ...

• Pastoral. One of the poetic favorites is pastoral poetry because it elicits such wonderful senses of peace and harmony. ...

• Terza Rima. ...

• Ballad. ...

• Imagery. ...

• Limerick. ...

• Epic Poem. ...

• Elegy.

About Some of the Types of Poems

Poems are collections of words that express an idea or emotion that often use imagery and metaphor. As you are studying literature, you will likely notice that poems come in many, many different forms. As you read and perhaps write your own poems, it is helpful to know the different kinds of poems.

Types of Poems

There are many different types of poems. The difference between each type is based on the format, rhyme scheme and subject matter.

• Allegory (Time, Real and Imaginary by Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

• Ballad (As You Came from the Holy Land by Sir Walter Raleigh)

• Blank verse (The Princess by Alfred, Lord Tennyson)

• Burlesque (Hudibras by Samuel Butler)

• Cacophony (The Bridge by Hart Crane)

• Canzone (A Lady Asks Me by Guido Cavalcanti)

• Conceit (The Flea by John Donne)

• Dactyl (The Lost Leader by Robert Browning)

• Elegy (Elegy Written in a Country Courtyard by Thomas Gray)

• Epic (The Odyssey by Homer)

• Epitaph (An Epitaph by Walter de la Mare)

• Free verse (The Waste-Land by TS Eliot)

• Haiku (How Many Gallons by Issa)

• Imagery (In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound)

• Limerick (There Was a Young Lady of Dorking by Edward Lear)

• Lyric (When I Have Fears by John Keats)

• Name (Nicky by Marie Hughes)

• Narrative (The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe)

• Ode (Ode to a Nightingale by Percy Bysshe Shelley)

• Pastoral (To a Mouse by Robert Burns)

• Petrarchan sonnet (London, 1802 by William Wordsworth)

• Quatrain (The Tyger by William Blake)

• Refrain (Troy Town by Dante Rosetti)

• Senryu (Hide and Seek by Shuji Terayama)

• Shakespearean sonnet (Sonnet 116 by Shakespeare)

• Sonnet (Leda and the Swan by William Butler Yeats)

• Tanka (A Photo by Alexis Rotella)

• Terza rima (Acquainted with the Night by Robert Frost)

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"The Difference between The Music, Poems Poetry and The Song "

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What is the difference between poetry and song lyrics? I am often asked this question by students or casual readers of poetry. While it’s easy to give the answer that poems don’t have any music behind them and song lyrics do, that doesn’t really explain anything.

Many musical artists present their song lyrics as poetry. This reflects not a commercial move on their part, but a desire for the words they write to be taken seriously. It is certainly true that poems are taught (for better or worse) in classrooms and made a part of the canon of literature, whereas songs, especially popular ones, usually are not. If song lyrics are studied in school, often it is ethnographically or anthropologically, to learn something about a culture, not as literature per se. What I suppose some musicians want is not to be considered poets, but for their lyrics to be read with the same respect they imagine poems are.

 

It seems absurd to me to contend that lyrics inherently have less literary merit than poetry, or are easier to create, or are less valuable in a cultural or human sense, and therefore somehow do not deserve the rarified title of “poetry.” But I also think the desire to consider lyrics as literature reflects some unfortunate and persistent biases that are detrimental to both poetry and song. This desire presumes that poems, because they are “literature,” must be serious, that is, written in forms that reflect obvious mastery of literary mannerisms (whether formal, like rhyme or metrical language, or something more elusive like elaborate fanciness of some kind). And it presumes that what is valuable about lyrics is how they reflect those literary values and skills.

 

These might not seem like big issues to a lot of poets and poetry specialists, who are familiar with poetry that has qualities of song lyrics, and vice versa. But people who are not as familiar with contemporary poetry do understandably make a distinction that on the one hand poems are “literary” and on the other songs are “popular,” i.e. written in a language regular people can understand.

The biases inherent in such a widespread distinction do a disservice to both poetry and song. By holding poetry to a literary standard, and either granting or denying that standard to song lyrics, we locate the worth of an artistic endeavor in the most superficial qualities of language, ones that are actually peripheral to what makes a poem worthwhile.

 

In fact, I do think there are important and fascinating differences between lyrics and poems, just not the ones that are usually focused on. Words in a poem take place against the context of silence (or maybe an espresso maker, depending on the reading series), whereas, as musicians like Will Oldham and David Byrne have recently pointed out, lyrics take place in the context of a lot of deliberate musical information: melody, rhythm, instrumentation, the quality of the singer’'s voice, other qualities of the recording, etc. Without all that musical information, lyrics usually do not function as well, precisely because they were intentionally designed that way. The ways the conditions of that environment affect the construction of the words (refrain, repetition, the ways information that can be communicated musically must be communicated in other ways in a poem, etc.) is where we can begin to locate the main differences between poetry and lyrics.

 

As for the question of whether poems can function as song lyrics, the answer seems to be, in the right hands, absolutely yes. Just to take a few recent examples, Gabriel Kahane, Michael Zapruder, AroarA, Jason Collett, Eric Moe, and Missy Mazzoli (Victoire) have all set poems by contemporary poets to music, with exciting and gorgeous results. These composers recognize, it seems to me, the essential qualities of language in poetry. These musical artists use their considerable skill and sensitivity to design music that moves around and with the poems, never overloading them with musical information or tormenting them into overly strained forms to serve a musical structure, two of the most noticeable qualities of failed musical-poetic collaborations.

To say that this means song lyrics are less literary than poems, or require less skill or intelligence or training or work to create, is patently absurd (and, in the case of rap music, patronizing). But that does not mean that song lyrics are poems. They might sometimes accidentally function like poems when taken out of a musical context, but abstracting lyrics from musical information is misleading and beside the point. It seems to me far more productive to ask how lyrics in songs relate to musical information, and how poems relate to the silences (cultural and actual) that surround them, and to recognize that lyrics and poetry, while different genres with different forces and imperatives, have both more and less in common than we might think, and are endeavors of equal value.

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The relationship between The Music & Poetry

 

Music and poetry are normally not mentioned in the same sentence together, with the exception of hip hop. However, the similarities between music and poetry are far greater than observed by the general public and media.

Some of the similarities are:

 

Rhythm

Expression

Emotion

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Songs themselves have to be rhythmic. As well, poetry flows just the same. Rhythm is what makes music as well as poetry. The flowing of words, the instruments smooth melody; all a part of the greater meaning, poetry.

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In fact, there's even a form of poetry which is made into music called lyrical poems. They are just that, musical lyrics. Sometimes they are used in songs, sometimes left as just words with a specific rhythm. They are what they are, lyrics express the thoughts and feelings of the author.

 

Although they are the only type directly related to melody, lyrical poetry is definitely not the only poetic form which can be made into a song. A good example of this is rap. Rap is made up of rhythm, rhyme, sometimes alliteration, and many other poetic attributes and techniques. It is the most likened to poetry, yet is still music, and one of the most popular forms as wel.

Nonetheless, even music without words is poetry, just not in the most recognized sense of the word. When someone mentions "poetry", the listener generally visualizes Emily Dickinson or John Donne. However, there have been other authors who have become famous by doing non-generalized works of writing. E. E. Cummings is a great example of non-traditional poetry. He experimented with fragmented lines, strange spellings, and single letters in a line. Today, this type of poetry is known as Dada.

Poetry is about flow, rhythm, meaning and expression. Instrumental music expresses, flows and shows just as much emotion as does music with words.

 

In fact, many types of poems don't need words at all. Music, sounds, and even paintings are often described as poems. If they have rhythm and structure, it's easy to describe them as works of poetry. After all, isn't that what poetry is?

To go back on point, music is poetry. The difference between the two is so small that all that poetry needs is either a vocalist or instruments. Nonetheless, in the general sense of the word, music is poetry and has always been poetry. The two go together like peas in a pod.

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What is the difference between music, song and poem?

Songs are a bride, wearing musical and vocal beauty.Music has no vocals, or it’s almost without words. Like piano, violin, guitar, harmonium, drums etc are musical instruments which makes music and tones.
 

A song is a combination of music, tones, lyrics (poems). When you write a poem and you sing it with musical instruments to make it sounds as good as you can and you repeat few title lines after every phrase to make it sound beautifully, it becomes song, mostly songs has 3,4,5, phrase.
 

Long poems which has so many phrase can be readable as a poem or if you sing it with light music it becomes ghazal which is a Urdu word, mostly ghazals has 5,6,7,8 phrase and few line repeats only few times..

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