“A song is a poem set to music”
~Tom T. Hall
We as humans often come across things which seem to be polar opposites at first sight but on closer inspection we find those two things are more similar than what anybody gives them credit for. For example rap music and poetry. Most people would not associate these two forms of art together and acknowledge them as two completely different ways of expressing oneself. After all, what can connect a popular genre of music and a genre of literature?
Writing gives a voice to people to convey messages and their emotions, which is why people write and like poetry and rap music in the first place. Poets and lyric writers let the words bleed from their hearts such that the audience experiences first hand what the writer is conveying. The lyrics of both of these flow in a rhythm which sets them apart from different genres. They follow a set pattern where the break of the rhythm by extending the sentences or by adding an unnecessary word result in the loss of their essence.
Poems and rap music alike revolve around a central idea which is emphasised, in poems, by
the use of different literary devices and expressions. However in Rap it is done more vocally
with a change of tone and the help of basic musical instruments.
Thus, it can be said that the major difference which sets Rap and Poetry apart is the music, and if one were to add music to poems there’d be hardly any differences to set them apart, as, the fabric of these forms of art are woven out of the same material.
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