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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
But throughout the 20th century there were poets who wrote just as beautifully who actually said something.

Zimmerman compared to Yeats, to Dylan Thomas, even to Robert Frost? No comparison.

Poetry without music is like a coral reef without fish; they belong together and one complements the beauty of the other.

110 posted on 10/15/2016 7:05:50 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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To: af_vet_1981

Define music?

Poetry was originally developed to keep track of history. It has melody and song built into it.

That said, “song” and “poetry” are two separate arts. Sometimes united, sometimes not. But “poetry” still stands alone as its own art.

And the great poets of the 20th century often had a far more melodic and lyrical quality than the most praised pop music that was hailed as poetry.


116 posted on 10/16/2016 11:20:51 AM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Carter...Reagan...Bush...Clinton....Bush....Carter....BUSH? / CLINTON? STOP THE INSANITY!)
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