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Hans Fox - Forms of Poetry (full EP)

0:00 - Sonnet 3:58 - Haiku 6:19 - Imagist 8:57 - Ghazal 11:00 - Limerick 13:47 - Wizard 16:52 - Assignment I made this entire project in a single weekend in December 5th to December 8th (Monday counts because how are you supposed to make an album in a weekend?) Anyways, the scope of the project was to write a song in each poetic form I learned during my poetry class and then create music to match the vibe of the words. I didn't have any time to really mix the project, and the sequencing is weird because I wanted to match the order I learned things in class. I actually have a whole essay about this hang on. I’ve been wanting to do a personal project in a similar vein to this one ever since I started this class. Learning about poetry has inspired my songwriting immensely. I have been writing songs for five years now and in that time I’ve produced about 60 songs that I consider worthwhile and high quality; 20 of those songs have come from the last three months I have been in this class. Learning about rhyming schemes, poetic forms, historical backgrounds of those forms, and the wide variety of poetry that exists today has driven me out of a foxhole and given me such immense inspiration that I can now sit down, pick a prompt, and write a song in under 5 minutes. It takes a little longer than that to flesh it out and give it some real meat-on-the-bones, but the lyrics and basic structure come faster than ever. Before this class, it would take me several agonizing hours just to find a chord progression. Now I want to express my gratitude to poetry and specifically this class. The basic outline for this project was as follows: write a song in each major form covered in the class, record it, and put it out in the world. Now I’m doing basically that but for a grade which is spectacular. The first song is the sonnet, simply titled Sonnet, with the second being Haiku, the third, Imagist, the fourth Ghazal, and the fifth being Limerick. I chose Limerick as a kind of closer because it’s the first form of poetry I ever learned way back in the 1st grade, and I want to pay respect to that beginning of mine. Learning the limerick is what got me writing poems through grade school, stories in middle school, and finally songs in high school and into today. Now, I have also decided to add two “bonus tracks” to the project. The first is Wizard, and this song is written in free verse, AKA, how I would normally write a song. It’s just something that came along while I was working on the rest of the project and I feel like it displays the musicality of the project in contrast to the lyrics quite well. The lyrics of Wizard are by far the simplest, but they’re for sure my best; little nuggets of metaphor weaved with my personal life and imagery of wizards casting spells and making potions. I think the song is quite cute. The final bonus track is Assignment. This is like my tour de force of the whole project and actually utilizes every single poetic form in one song. It’s a verse-chorus-verse a la traditional songwriting, but the verse is in the middle written in the form of the sonnet, the choruses are at the beginning and the end, sort of like a ghazal, written in the form of haiku. It’s like my ultra poem. Touching briefly on the actual music of the project. I originally wanted to capture the cultural style of each form, Persian music for the ghazal, classical for the sonnet, but that ended up sounding quite forced and disingenuous, so I scrapped the whole thing and started over. I of course corrected and instead wrote each poem over again and created music to fit around the tone of each poem. Ghazal is one of my favorites because it ended up sounding like a western song from a cowboy movie, because I was thinking of the desert and what the desert means to me. My dad adored cowboy movies and the music of old spaghetti westerns is what made me first think of music as independent of the background. Imagist is moody and loud with quiet interludes, not because of the lyrics, but because of the life of the original Imagist, Ezra Pound. It was dramatic and loud at parts, and tranquil but remorseful at others, and I sought to capture that in the music. The Sonnet track is just zany and Limerick is made to sound like a folk song to fuse my original poetic obsession with my current musical one. I sought to capture my experience with this class through poetry and poetry through music. I believe I have done quite well and I enjoy each track off of this record I’ve made in a single weekend. It was a whirlwind experience with creative thoughts constantly barking at me to make them real, and in the end I was only able to capture a fraction of what my brain was making. However, I think that fraction is really worth capturing and holding on to. I hope you can find enjoyment in it. there's some context missing but you pretty much get it.