How important is music to your poetry?
It’s important. It’s like the veins, connective tissue, or interstitial fluid. It can carry one’s “story” or anti-story. Cacophony and euphony elucidate themes in the work, for example. Think about Robert Hayden’s famous poem, Those Winter Sundays. The repetition of consonant letters in “blue black cold,” “cracked hands,” “breaking,” and “chronic angers” taken together help us register the anger and love of the speaker’s father whose house, not unlike the father, thawed daily amid indifference and class-based racial animus.
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