Poems and songs are often placed up against one another to see which, once and for all is more creative than the other. However that is not the case, not everything is as black and white as it first seems. Some songs hold more creativity than that of a poem, however the opposite can also hold true. “So whether lyrics are poetry is a question that doesn 't require an answer, or has too many to bother with. It 's enough that we have songs and can sing them.”( Robbins, 1). Weather they are alike or not may not be a question worth answering. Because however similar, they are still different things. Feelings through the voice, or through words viewed upon a page.”The goal of a poet and a musician often involves channeling experience in a very immediate and visceral way.” (Sarah. C, 1). This shows that Poems and songs may be different artforms but they are made to make you feel. That is the main focus of both artforms. The Song “Through the valley”, by Shawn James, as well as the poem “The Valley of Unrest¨, by Edgar Allen Poe in this case both are equal in the matters of poetic and …show more content…
The poem holds no repetition so this means that there are no idea´s or phrases repeating itself. This helps the poem tell a story rather than trying to push an idea onto the reader. The lack of repetition pushes on the idea of a story and the visualization of such rather that of an idea. This can also hold true for the ideas present within the song. The idea of the song is a man who is at odds with what he has done in life. He wishes to wash it all way before he dies because if he does not then his soul with be put to eternal damnation. The idea of the poem is a man has fallen in battle, a man whom no one know. He is laid to rest, his grave marked nameless. The lilies cry for him as he has risked everything and died for nothing but ye no one will cry over his