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I don't rhyme enough, eh? (Ode) by Niphredil

Rhyming is not all-important. I know For some it's a challenge, a chance for a show, But let all beware of those who coerce Their disordered feelings to pre-ordered verse. I'm sure that a poem is oft viewed as neater When properly rhymed and according to meter If genius strikes you, by all means then rhyme; Less than that shall be denounced as a crime.

zodiac 13-Oct-05/1:59 AM
People who think poetry should be something different are illiterates. I don't personally know any of these people, though the people I know are always talking about how they hate those other people. Personally, I doubt whether they exist.

I've always heard hip-hop used to describe both the music and the lifestyle. I think it's because white people (including most of my professors) are more comfortable saying hip-hop than rap. I don't know why.

It used to seem like a big deal to me that the world had "turned away from poetry" and so on and rap and pop music were the only poetic forms people paid attention to, but it doesn't now. Consider:
1) Originally, all poetry was set to music; it WAS music.
2) During times when access to singers/reciters or recorded music was limited, written poetry was a decent substitute.
3) But during those times there was no diminishment in the poetry-as-music movement, it was just hard to get at your isolated manor house.
4) Since recorded and live music became more available in the end of the 1800s, interest in written poetry has been diminished. Every generation since then has considered its musicians poets, and every generation has scandalized at the thought that people were paying attention to music-poetry more than nonmusic-poetry. Whatever. Here is a nowhere near complete list of the music people have had this same debate about:
- Opera
- Cole Porter and Broadway light opera
- Jazz
- Beat-style jazz
- early rock
- The Beatles
- Bob Dylan
- most other 60s rock
- Led Zeppelin
- early and most other rap
- Bossa Nova and latin music
- Grunge lyrics

If you consider some of the genres on this list, DMX (actually, I think I meant Run DMC and was tired) isn't such a bad choice.

Conclusion: Silly thing to argue about, nowhere near original, and not going away. The best thing to say is all music is poetry. Most is bad poetry.




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