SONG
INTRODUCTION
In
this paper we would like to discussed about poetry especially the tittle about
song which is related to the poetry. Then i would like to write about song.
Some people know song. And also somebody like singing. So song here is familiar
for everyone. We know that song is musical peace and popular nowadays. It’s mean
that song is a piece of music for accompanied or unaccompanied voice or voices or,
"the act or art of singing," but the term is generally not used for
large vocal forms including opera and oratorio. However, the term is, "often found in various
figurative and transferred sense (e.g. for the lyrical second subject of a
sonata...)." The noun "song" has the same etymological root as
the verb "to sing" and the Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
defines the word to mean "that which is sung" or "a musical
composition suggestive of song.
According
this book song have a poem. I will explain and show about poem which is related
to the song in poetry. Sometime somebody write the lyric and choosing the song
to singing like rock, blues, ballad, based on their favorite. It’s make them
interesting and enjoyment with their favorite song. Then we would like to learn
about kinds of singing and saying, ballad, then blues in poetry.
CONTENT
1.
Singing
And Saying
A
stanza is a group of lines whose pattern is repeated throughout the poem. When
sung, stanzas of song are indicated by a pause or by the introduction of a
refrain, or chorus ( a line or lines repeated). Consequently, songs tend to be
written in language simple enough to be understood on first hearing. But some
contemporary song writers have created songs that require listeners to pay
close and repeated attention to their words.
Sing along with your violin, my boy,
I feel that instrument’s your best,
In your hands that thing it just a toy
Under your chin, please let is rest.”
The rime scheme of this song is a b a b; and it falls into stanza. The
first and the third line rime and so do the second and forth. Most poems are
more memorable than most ordinary speech, and when music is combined with
poetry the result can be more memorable still. The differences between speech,
poetry, and song may appear if we consider. A form of popular in which words
are recited to a driving rhythmicn beat. It differs from mainstream popular music in several
ways, but, most interesting in literary terms, tap lyrics are spoken
rather than sung. A madigal is always
short, usually just one stanza, and rarely exceeds twelve or thirteen lines.
2.
Ballads
A ballad is a poem that tells a
fairly simple story (narrative). It usually has an easily identified, powerful
metre and strong rhymes in an ABAB or AABB pattern. Some ballads are also set
to music, some are narratives of suffering and love lost, or some just tell a
humorous story. In modern music, "ballad" has come to refer to a
slow, melodic, emotional song.
Any
narrative song, like Paul Simon’s “Richard Cory,”( poetry book pg:631) may be
called ballad. In English, some of the most ballads loosely define as anonymous
story-song transmitted orally before they were ever written down. A favorite pattern of ballad-makers is the
so-called ballad stanza, four lines rimed a
b c b, tending to fall into 8, 6, 8, and 6 syllables:
Clerk Saunders and Maid Margaret
Walked owre yon garden green
And deep and heavy was the love
That fell thir twa between.
3.
Blues
Among
the many song forms to have shape the way poetry is written in English, no
recent form has been more influential than the blues. Originally a type of folk
music developed by black slaves in the South, blue song has both a distinctive
form and tone. They traditionally consist of three-lines stanzas in which the
first two identical lines are followed by a concluding riming third line.
To dream of muddy water-trouble is
knocking at your door.
To dream of muddy water-trouble is
knocking at your door.
Your man is sure to leave you and never
return no more.
Early
blues lyrics almost spoke of some sadness, pain or deprivation-often the loss
of the loved one. The melancholy tone of the lyrics, however, is not only
world-weary but also world-wise. The blues expound the hard-won wisdom of
bitter life experience. They frequently create their special mood through
down-to-earth, even gritty, imagery drawn from everyday life. Blues have not
only become an enduring category of popular music. They have helped shape
virtually all the major styles of contemporary pop-jazz, rap, rock, gospel,
country, and of course, rhythm and blues.
W. H Auden (1907-1973)
FUNERAL BLUES
Stop all the
clock’s cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog
from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the
pianos and muffled drum
Bring out the
coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes
circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on
the sky the message he is dead,
Tie crepe bows
round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic
policement wear black cotton glove.
He was my north.
My south, my east and west
My working week
and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight,
my talk, my song;
I thought that
love would last for ever: i was wrong.
The stars are
not wanted now: put out every one,
Pack up the moon
and dismantle the sun,
Pour away the
ocean and sweep up the the woods;
For nothing now
can ever come to any good.
These are the lyrics of one of W. H
Audien earlier songs. The rime and the form of these songs are similar to poem.
But there are differences. Every stanza of it consist of three lines and rimes a a b as poet does. But in the blues,
most the contain is about sadness and unhappiness.
THE DAY YOU WENT AWAY
Well
I wonder could it be
When I was dreaming ’bout you baby
You were dreaming of me
Call me crazy, call me blind
To still be suffering is stupid after all of this time
When I was dreaming ’bout you baby
You were dreaming of me
Call me crazy, call me blind
To still be suffering is stupid after all of this time
Did
I lose my love to someone better
And does she love you like I do
I do, you know I really really do
And does she love you like I do
I do, you know I really really do
Well
hey
So much I need to say
Been lonely since the day
The day you went away
So sad but true
For me there’s only you
Been crying since the day
The day you went away
So much I need to say
Been lonely since the day
The day you went away
So sad but true
For me there’s only you
Been crying since the day
The day you went away
I
remember date and time
September twenty second
Sunday twenty five after nine
In the doorway with your case
No longer shouting at each other
There were tears on our faces
September twenty second
Sunday twenty five after nine
In the doorway with your case
No longer shouting at each other
There were tears on our faces
And
we were letting go of something special
Something we’ll never have again
I know, I guess I really really know
Something we’ll never have again
I know, I guess I really really know
A
dream is a wish your heart makes. When you're fast asleep. In dreams
you will lose your heartaches. Whatever you wish for you keep, have faith in
your dreams and someday. Your rainbow will come smiling through. No matter how
your heart is grieving, If you keep on believing. The dream that you wish will
come true
Love
is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about
it...It really is worth fighting for, risking everything for. And the trouble
is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more.
Crying is
shedding tears as a response to an emotional
state in humans. The act of crying has been defined as
"a complex secretomotor phenomenon characterized by the shedding of tears from the lacrimal apparatus, without any irritation of the ocular structures.
Conclution
Thus, Song is short piece of music with words for
singing ( longman dictionary of American English). There are many kinds of
song. Based on the tittle of song is explain about singing and saying, ballad,
and blues. after we learn about song we can understand what is the differences
between speech, poetry and song. So this is the way of learn about song.
Reference
BY :
DENI PUSPITASARI
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