I need a popular song (lyrics) that have been inspired by a poem and has some resemblance to it, but I can't find any! Help me out? :)
2007-12-11 10:40:14 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Poetry
Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the song was done by Iron Maiden, pretty much follows the poem really well.
2007-12-11 10:53:17 · answer #1 · answered by hunterrose30 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Evangeline A Tale of Acadie is a poem, published in 1847, by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Evangeline is a 1981 album by Emmylou Harris with the song on track 5. but I don't know if that is directly related.
The French verson is.
2007-12-11 10:44:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Leonard Cohen is a great songwriter who was a Beat poet. Most of his songs are poems set to music. For example, one of his better known songs is "Bird on a Wire", which has been recorded by Johnny Cash, K.D. Lang and many others:
like a bird on a wire
like a drunk in a midnight choir
I have tried in my way to be free.
like a baby stillborn
like a beast with his horn
i have torn everyone
who reached out to me.
etc.
Check him out.
2007-12-11 17:07:10 · answer #3 · answered by Valerie W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
star spangled banner was written as a song (to a British drinking song)
Highwayman is a good Irish lyrical poem but hasn't really hit mainstream at least in america
2007-12-11 10:45:50 · answer #4 · answered by pcolind 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Every "Poem" a song
Every "Song" a poem
Which I will remember long."
Steven Wolf 2007
2007-12-11 11:16:52 · answer #5 · answered by DIY Doc 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are many
the band
red hot chili peppers for one
their lead singer started out writing poetry and later many of them were turned into songs for the band
2007-12-11 10:48:43 · answer #6 · answered by kk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Desolation Row" by Bob Dylan. yeah, it's one of his songs, but it must have started out as a poem.
2007-12-11 10:44:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Highwayman
Starspangled Banner
Probably many more, but none come to mind.
2007-12-11 10:43:07 · answer #8 · answered by Bartthollemew 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋