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Yes, I consider myself more than just a singer. My lyrics are everything to me | 2 | 12.50% | |
No, I'm not that pretentious | 4 | 25.00% | |
Well, I consider myself both a singer/performer and a poet | 3 | 18.75% | |
No, I'm not that good. I try to write good lyrics though | 4 | 25.00% | |
My lyrics suck ass. Hell no | 3 | 18.75% | |
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07-15-2010, 03:04 PM | #51 (permalink) | |
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You now represent a balance in the argument.
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07-15-2010, 03:13 PM | #52 (permalink) | |
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I guess I mean the structure usually found in songs. Chorus, Verses, sometimes rhyming, Bridge... It's not as easy for me to write as a poem. It's not what a song should be but instead what I tell myself my song should have. I limit myself and therefore make it more difficult. |
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07-15-2010, 09:52 PM | #53 (permalink) | ||||
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My name is Erica. I enjoy cycling, books, persimmons, and politics. I also like dancing (modern and international dancing), though I haven't done much recently. And I love poetry! Say, do you like poetry, by any chance? If you do, then maybe someday you can tell me what you think poetry is, and we can debate it! Quote:
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07-16-2010, 08:28 AM | #54 (permalink) | ||
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But the way I see it it intention has to have some weight in the discussion because at the very least we should know how well did the job get done. If you attempt to write the next great American novel and its set in Brussels, I think you've missed the point. There is a large amount of latitude in "good." But at some point, if we don't factor in a scale for quality why even have the name "poetry." at that point it will have bled into and be synonymous with "writing"
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07-17-2010, 05:16 PM | #55 (permalink) | |||||||
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Yes, I do have some favorite poems. One of my favorites is: Quote:
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EDIT: By the way, I view The Lorax as one long and very good poem, its point summarized by that one word, "Unless."
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07-17-2010, 07:25 PM | #56 (permalink) | |
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Shakespeare, Proust, Faulkner, Suess. I'm running out but I'll read the poems you put in at some point.
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07-17-2010, 07:50 PM | #57 (permalink) | |
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Exactly!
Although maybe Suess should go first.
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