Usually, I do the music first, which is harder. Then a friend called and said he had just discovered the If poem by Kipling and I thought that would be good to set to music and that came easy. “I started playing on the piano and in a short period of time I had 4 piano songs, but no words. She told Mojo magazine in February of 2008, that after a 10-year creative slump she returned to her British Columbia home, where she feels the most grateful and inspired. She updated the language and changed the last verse. Joni Mitchell adapted the poem into a song of the same name. Rudyard Kipling’s poem If is considered by some as the world’s most successful poem, having been translated into 27 languages and voted “the nation’s favorite poem” in 1995 by BBC listeners. To celebrate the fusing of music and poetry, here is a playlist featuring some great tracks that are based on, borrowed from, or were otherwise influenced by classic poems. Patti Smith has come to be known as the “punk poet laureate.” In 2016, Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” Leonard Cohen published several books of poetry before ever releasing his first album, Songs of Leonard Cohen, in 1967. Plenty of musicians have published collections of their own poetry while being heavily influenced by poetry within their songwriting.
From sounds to rhythms to cadences, there are countless intersections between poetry and lyric writing,
As the popular phrase goes, “music is language.” But what about language as music? If you are an aspiring songwriter, reading poetry can help you a great deal.
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