Music and Poetry

• People often associate poetry with the music
• The lyric (a short, harmonious, and sometimes romantic poem) takes its name from the Greek practice of reciting and singing
• Many poems, especially during the Renaissance, are called songs
• Poets of legitimate skill should be able to hear, on instinct, the various pauses, pacings, alternations, and relationships which make up the sound structure of the poem
• This is akin to a musician’s natural instinct to count/hear rhythm
• Some poems are written to imitate/follow music