and it does nearly every term--of whether or not rock lyrics qualify as poetry, I offer my students a simple but heartless test. Ask all the musicians to please leave the stage and take their instruments with them--yes, that goes for the backup singers in the tight satin dresses, and the drummer--and then have the lead singer stand alone by the microphone and read the lyrics from that piece of paper he is holding in his hand. What you will hear can leave only one impression: the lyrics in almost every case are not poetry, they are lyrics. [--Billy Collins]from The Times: Bob Dylan: the beatnik bard
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