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Music like poetry can make you feel the emotions of the human heart and can effect the people who hear it.
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Very true! A simple idea in the hands of a gifted poet can be expressed in a manner which evokes profound levity, grief, fervor or joy. Words can be powerful emotional stimulators for both good and evil. Hitler was not a particularly intelligent man, but his words and how he expressed them moved an entire nation down a path which led to the greatest misery in the history of mankind; conversely, the impassioned words of John Adams moved a small group of colonists to form the most successful nation on earth. Neither of these men wrote poetry, but words, and simply the manner in which they are arranged such as we find in poetry can arouse profound emotional effect.hhriver wrote:Poetry is fantastic and makes it easy to say things that help others. It can be romantic, loving, and speak of love. Or it can speak of war and death. Its covers all areas of the human heart and the world too.
Music like poetry can make you feel the emotions of the human heart and can effect the people who hear it.
With regard to music: In my lifetime I have heard pieces of music which I had never heard before which moved me greatly. I have often been curious as to what psychological trigger causes such emotional effects. A symphony piece or concerto has no words which one can associate with ideas and yet just the sound of the music itself can cause an enormous emotional effect. A case in point was the first time I heard Samuel Barber's Adagio For Strings. I was mesmerized by it and for no reason I could put a name to and much to my surprise I found tears rolling down my cheeks when it was over. The first time I heard Bach's Toccata and Fugue I just sat there with my mouth hanging open when it was over. I felt that I had heard the very concept of the term "genius" presented in audio form.
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Music is a simple expression of your feeling at a particular point in time
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Having said that I really like some of the war poetry from WW1 and 2. Siegfried Sassoon and Alfred Lord Tennyson's Charge of the Lightbrigade. That terrible war imagery is something I can actually connect with most of the time. It is almost haunting. But anything else? any other topic? I don't seem to understand.
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Good poetry is certainly full of emotion and powerful ideas.hhriver wrote:Poetry is fantastic and makes it easy to say things that help others. It can be romantic, loving, and speak of love. Or it can speak of war and death. Its covers all areas of the human heart and the world too.
Music like poetry can make you feel the emotions of the human heart and can effect the people who hear it.
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Music can help to change my mood or just match my mood and I can listen to it and just be.
Writing poetry helps me to work through my emotions and make something pretty at the same time.
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Sir DaTo,DATo wrote:Very true! A simple idea in the hands of a gifted poet can be expressed in a manner which evokes profound levity, grief, fervor or joy. Words can be powerful emotional stimulators for both good and evil. Hitler was not a particularly intelligent man, but his words and how he expressed them moved an entire nation down a path which led to the greatest misery in the history of mankind; conversely, the impassioned words of John Adams moved a small group of colonists to form the most successful nation on earth. Neither of these men wrote poetry, but words, and simply the manner in which they are arranged such as we find in poetry can arouse profound emotional effect.hhriver wrote:Poetry is fantastic and makes it easy to say things that help others. It can be romantic, loving, and speak of love. Or it can speak of war and death. Its covers all areas of the human heart and the world too.
Music like poetry can make you feel the emotions of the human heart and can effect the people who hear it.
With regard to music: In my lifetime I have heard pieces of music which I had never heard before which moved me greatly. I have often been curious as to what psychological trigger causes such emotional effects. A symphony piece or concerto has no words which one can associate with ideas and yet just the sound of the music itself can cause an enormous emotional effect. A case in point was the first time I heard Samuel Barber's Adagio For Strings. I was mesmerized by it and for no reason I could put a name to and much to my surprise I found tears rolling down my cheeks when it was over. The first time I heard Bach's Toccata and Fugue I just sat there with my mouth hanging open when it was over. I felt that I had heard the very concept of the term "genius" presented in audio form.
I am just always moved by your write-ups, you are someone of high degree of intelligent. Your choice of words is just so simply even for a layman to comprehend. I look forward to reading one of your book someday sir!.
Am just so happy am on this platform of prolific genius .
Kudos Sir.
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