I don’t think of myself as someone who likes poetry.
But I can recite (sing) all the verses of “American Pie,” and I love it. I spent an hour and a half reading different verses that have been sung as part of Leonard Cohen’s song “Hallelujah.”
Maybe I think I don’t like poetry because I am spoiled by having my poetry sung to me in recorded fashion, but when I think of “liking poetry” I think of some anachronistic action of sitting there with a book reading poems printed on a page. Maybe I love poetry to death, I just call it “music” due to modern technology.
I don’t think of myself as someone who likes poetry.
But I can recite (sing) all the verses of “American Pie,” and I love it. I spent an hour and a half reading different verses that have been sung as part of Leonard Cohen’s song “Hallelujah.”
Maybe I think I don’t like poetry because I am spoiled by having my poetry sung to me in recorded fashion, but when I think of “liking poetry” I think of some anachronistic action of sitting there with a book reading poems printed on a page. Maybe I love poetry to death, I just call it “music” due to modern technology.