Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
When poetry separates from song, then the words have to carry all the rhythm themselves; they have to do all the work. They can't rely on the singing voice.
It's like dance is a metaphor for going beyond where you think you can go.
The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.
The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
When words leave off, music begins.
There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
The whole beauty of music is that it goes where your words won't let you.