There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well.
The whole beauty of music is that it goes where your words won't let you.
Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.
Lyrics are kind of the whole thing; it's the message. Something might have a beautiful melody but if it's not the truth coming out of your mouth, it's not appealing.
Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.
Ultimately, words are only words, and its only the music that stands by itself.
Poetry, first and foremost, is the lyric. It's the music.
This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.
The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.