The eNotes Blog At the Intersection of Poetry andMusic

At the Intersection of Poetry andMusic Four adaptations of poems set to music: some tender, some bizarre, all personal homages to poems and their masters. Enjoy! Im Nobody! Who Are You? by Emily Dickinson Composed by Israeli singer-songwriter Efrat Ben Zur. Im nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then theres a pair of us dont tell! Theyd banish you know! How dreary to be somebody! How public like a frog To tell ones name the livelong day To an admiring bog! Sonnet 49 by Pablo Neruda The best loved love poet as sung by jazz artist Luciana Souza. Its today: all of yesterday dropped away among the fingers of the light and the sleeping eyes. Tomorrow will come on its green footsteps; no one can stop the river of the dawn. No one can stop the river of your hands, your eyes and their sleepiness, my dearest. You are the trembling of time, which passes between the vertical light and the darkening sky. To a Man Young and Old by William Butler Yeats A bit of an oddball, from the album Yeats is Greats by lo-fi San Francisco duo The Speakers. THOUGH nurtured like the sailing moon In beautys murderous brood, She walked awhile and blushed awhile And on my pathway stood Until I thought her body bore A heart of flesh and blood. But since I laid a hand thereon And found a heart of stone I have attempted many things And not a thing is done, For every hand is lunatic That travels on the moon. Open His Head by ee cummings Tin Hat performs one of their songs from the album The Rain is a Handsome Animal, which contains 17 songs inspired by ee cummings poetry. open his head,baby   youll  find  a heart in it (cracked) open that heart, mabel   youll  find  a bed in it (fact) open this  bed,sibyl   youll find a tart in it (wed) open the  tart,lady   youll  find  his mind in it (dead) (Feature Image via Unsplash)