Poetry in Music and Song...

If you like music and song lyrics...you actually do like or perhaps even love poetry, but you may not have known this! Music and songs are extremely powerful and reach a world wide audience. Movies include music and song all the time to support the messages intended for the viewers. Music and song are used in many different mediums. So if you love songs, you love poetry!




Step 1:    View and listen to this short YouTube video as a "warm up" for reading and analyzing your own poetry in this poetry unit. How many of the contemporary songs and artists do you recognize? You will most likely be surprised how often you may  hear figurative language without realizing it. Song lyrics use figurative language all the time!