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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. ------------Original Message-------------- 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.