Sunday Musings - A new Column by Williamsji

20th April, 2014

My Easter Day Greetings to COSMOFUNNEL Administration, to all authors, artistes and viewers

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SYNOPSIS: This is my new writing column, which is subject to the approval of COSMOFUNNEL administration. This Column titled as " Sunday Musings ' will feature, a bit in-depth analysis of poems or songs, selected by me at random to avoid the elaborate  comments posted by me in the usual comments column. The poems selected are purely from my own liking and discretion and has nothing to do with the ratings, voting and nomination aspects. Hope, readers will understand my view point and enjoy my writing. I am eager to read your feed-backs.  The first lyric which  I take-up is this - WILLIAMSJI MAVELI

• Title: MY FIRST SONG EVER!!! - "TRAPPED"
• Author : Valerie Lynn
• Posted on 19th April, 2014

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This Lyric from Poetess Valerie Lyn  is awesome!  The song depicts a struggle and agony.  This has got to be your best work!  It is honest and heartfelt.  The picture chosen by the Poetess is perfect, and further shows the despair.   "In the end of the beginning, within shadows of misery, Happiness littered with sorrow, beneath scorned ashes, Love laced with hate, I remain trapped in a maze"

 The difference between poetry and lyrics is simple to answer, it is a question often asked by students or casual readers of poetry. While it’s easy to give the answer those poems don’t have any music behind them and lyrics do. Many melodious artists present their song lyrics as poetry. This reflects not a commercial move on their part, but a longing for the words they write to be taken seriously. It is certainly true that poems are taught, for better or worse, in schools and made a part of the standard of literature, whereas songs, especially popular ones, usually are not. If lyrics are willful taught in school, often it is due to some special purpose or requirement, like a nation's national anthem or political song for the nation's young generation to learn something about the nation's culture, not as literature. What I suppose some musicians want is not to be considered poets, but for their lyrics to be read with the same respect they imagine poems are.

It seems meaningless to me to contend that lyrics intrinsically have less literary value than poetry, or are easier to create, or are less valuable in a enriching or human sense, and therefore somehow do not deserve the ratified title of “poetry.” But I also think the desire to consider lyrics as literature reflects some unlucky and unwavering biases that are detrimental to both poetry and song. This desire presumes that poems, because they are “literature,” must be serious, that is, written in forms that reflect obvious mastery of literary mannerisms, whether it is formal, like rhyme or musical language, or something more hard to pin down like complicated fanciness of some kind. And it presumes that what is valuable about lyrics is how they reflect those literary values and skills.

These might not seem like big issues to a lot of poets and poetry specialists, who are familiar with poetry that has qualities of song lyrics, and vice versa. But people who are not as familiar with contemporary poetry do understandably make a distinction that on the one hand poems are “literary” and on the other songs are “popular,” i.e. written in a language regular people can understand.

WILLIAMSJI MAVELI