Tuesday 2 November 2021

Saba Pakdel : part five

How important is music to your poetry?

There are words in music. They may not be articulated by means of alphabets that appear in a dictionary per se, but they seamlessly formulate a conversation. The dialogic quality that exists in music does not necessarily realize itself in a listener / composer relationship, but among its own components as well. When you listen to a piece, you’d be reading a polyphonic poem or a play with multiple characters (voices) in multiple mise-en-scène (notes). Poetry, in the same vein, consists of different notes of music not only in the way it uses language patterns and metric systems, but also in the way it is recalled in memory. What poem comes to your mind when thinking of Beethoven’s “Sonata quasi una fantasia” which was actually nicknamed “Moonlight” sonata by German Romantic poet Ludwig Rellstab.  Music and poetry share qualities that make them essential components of a collaboration. I guess what kind of collaboration you’d think of is the way you’d expose yourself to the arts. 

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