Poetry Forum

definately music for me.. havent really got any profound, insightful reason, music just comes more natural to me. playing, listening and appreciating. also i wasnt really raised on great novels or poetry starting off life on a council estate. thankfully ive enriched my life through books, but they werent there for me when music was...

There's nothing quite so immediate or thrilling - no art-aesthetic experience, I mean - as a song or a piece that you love, is there?

Ah, but we did this in English lit, why can't a song count as literature? It's written word, and that's the dictionary definition, a poem is almost a set of lyrics, especially if it can be sung So I say both!
Raisin

Oh wow! What a cool discussion! I'm doing my dissertation on this exact topic!
I'll come back when I have some relevant findings to tell you all!!

Music, I'm afraid. I listen to the same songs over and over, but rarely return as often to literature, certainly not prose.

This is a hard one for me, i have my books, which speak to me in a personal way and i return to , but then music, in all its different forms, provides a much rounder experience, so i think i will have to agree with everyone so far and say music, it is the medium that invokes the memories and places for me.

"All art, therefore, appeals primarily to the senses, and the artistic aim when expressing itself in written words must also make its appeal through the senses, if its highest desire is to reach the secret spring of responsive emotions. It must strenuously aspire to the plasticity of sculpture, to the colour of painting, and to the magic suggestiveness of music--which is the art of arts."

- Joseph Conrad, preface to The Nigger of the Narcissus