Do you think poetry is a form of songwriting?

Please tell me if poetry is a form of songwriting. I would like to know what you think.

i think song writing is similar, you sing a song and write poetry.

i think poetry and songwriting is much the same
but many people use songwriting just to get rich

I dont think they have too much in common. Songs are spoken with words and poems are spoken with pens.. song writing isnt very deep but poems give you a look into someones heart and how they feel, songs can too but not as deep. But both songs and poems almost always deal with some type of emotion or feeling. Finally, I think its a whole a lot harder to write poetry than write songs.

sure, why not?

I think that song writing is poetry, and not the other way around. Poems have a different flow though, because with a song there has to be a chorus etc.

yes i think its similar because song rhyme just like poems and they both show emotions and express feelings

I agree with the above post.

Poetry is merely a song without music.

I think it does. i turn all my poems into songs, and songs into poems.

Yeh thats kinda what I heard from my mom when I heard her talking about Bob Dylan(i don't know if you know him) she was saying that his songs are real poetry.

Poetry is not a form of songwriting, but songwriting is a form of poetry.

writing a song is writing a poem and putting a beat to it.

yup

well yeah, but rap is the besst example because it's poetry but with a beat in the back ground

all songwriting is poetry (or at least should be- gwen stafani and britney spears are not poets) but not all poetry is songwriting. folk music, good rock, some rap, and the occasional pop song will display a very poetic writer, but songwritng also includes a melody, a beat, and distinct sections (chorus, verse, bridge, intro). if you write a poem, call it a song, and have never taken a musical intrument in your life, then you are deceving yourself.

I think that poem is partially of songwriting, except that poems seems to show more expression toward others.. well that was my opinion

rap is more of angerness being expressed, poems is just deep feeling but being calm expressed.. that is my opinion

But in poem you're far more serious about what ur writing, songs, yes it's a expression but not far more deeper as poems would be

I agree with cha

huh?

but the poems seem to show more expression but just more deep, could you do a song very deep about suicide?

not really cause , could you do a deep song about suicide as easily you could on poems???

true but sometime you can't really understand it cause most of the time it saying their expressions in their way but most of the people can't really figure what they mean...

I think it is, poetry is a form of songwirting. In both you express your opinion and let your feelings out. For every state of mind there is a poem and a song that a person can relate to.

In the sense your talking about, yes, i agree with you

I think it sort of has the same technique, yet when you write a song it has to 'sound' good and have at least a little structure to it, while it's not required for poetry. So there are some suttle differences.

I think poetry and songwriting is the same thing.

yup! i agree.

i think that poetry is something that can explain more deeper than song writing. poetry has meanings to it..but sumtymes songwritings dont..

Well... I know My Chemical Romances new CD is poetry.(I got it for Christmas from santa. tee hee)

only if it rhymes........lol jk =]]

yea to me a poem can turn into a song tee hee

Yes! In order to write a song you need POETRY!

of course.

I think songwriting is a form of poetry.

^Rachel, you took the words out of my mouth!

Songwriting is a form of poetry. One of the forms of poetry I've never been able to do. I can write a haiku or a tanka, sonnet even the most difficult of forms like sestinas in no time but i can't write a simple song!

may have something to do with me being tone deaf!! hhaaha

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I definitely think that songwriting is a form of poetry and a very poignant one because putting music to poetry is as difficult as creating an ambience in a poem.

thanx for the opinions I'm actuelly starting to get it.;o.

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actually... I think songwriting is a form of poetry.

i agree
songwriting is a form of poetry
it's literally correct