I think it also depends on the particular listener/reader.
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On 27 Oct 2016, at 14:54, David Lace wrote:
Surely it depends on the particular song. Some songs I've heard
(recent Dylan and Joni Mitchell) strike me as having more gravitas
than most of what's in Poetry Review these days.
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Peter Riley wrote:
It's unlikely that a "song" as generally understood
can reach to the extended seriousness or sublimity that poetry can.
The sing-song quality of songs, the closely repeated rhythmic units
and rhyme tend to make songs small-scale. small-scale is fine but not
everything.
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