Poetry and Music

   Since we're on the subject of poetry in this class, I'd like to talk about the similarities between a good poem and a good song.
   I've always found music in poetry and poetry in music, because they share many of the same great qualities; A rhythm, a beat, emotion and creativity. I love both of them because of the way they make me feel. Every song on my iPod gives me some kind of emotional feeling and I usually get overpowered by the music and I start singing and tapping along, even in public, so don't think I've gone insane if you see me walking down the halls swinging my hands, bobbing my head and moving my lips in silence. Anyways, within all of my music I tend to notice that at least one, or all, of the lyrics sound to me to be poetry.Take these lines from one of my favorite songs-

   Time is a valuable thing

   Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
   Watch it count down to the end of the day
   The clock ticks life away
         -In the End, Linkin Park

   Do these lines not evoke a sense of poetry? I don't know about you, but I certainly think so. The rhythm, the rhyme, the metaphor of time, it's all poetry, just placed side by time with the singing of instruments. And I feel that poetry works in just the same way. When I read a poem that I really like, it's because it speaks to me with emotion and passion and music playing in my mind. I feel its rhythm, its beat and the truth lying on the surface and buried deep within.
   My belief is that poetry and music make us Feel and that's what makes them so wonderful.