EMILY DICKINSON versus THE YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS!! (round 01)

Oct 30, 2005 20:55

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Emily Dickinson Mash-Up!

It's the greatest match of all time!

Bigger than Godzilla versus Mothra...
Badder than Freddie versus Jason...
Meaner than Alien versus Predator...

It's... EMILY DICKINSON versus THE YELLOW ROSE OF TEXAS!!

Recite the poems mournfully, or sing them with the famous melody cheerfully!
Try both! They all work BOTH ways!! ( Read more... )

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houseboatonstyx April 6 2006, 02:19:55 UTC
Don't a lot of Dickenson's poems also go to the tune of old hymns? Like Judy Collins' "Amazing Grace" where you put in extra dipthongs to let the piano pedal come back up?

Anyhow, "Crossing the Bar" goes to a Roger Miller tune, um, "Chug-a-Lug."

"Grape wine in a Mason jar
Homemade and brought to school
By a friend of mine, and after class
Me and him and one other fool
Vowed that we'd drink up what's left
...."

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dteleki April 6 2006, 16:31:37 UTC
Indeed they do, and it's not just hymns and Emily Dickinson and The Yellow Rose Of Texas. This is a larger phenomenon sometimes called "The Greensleeves Group".

example Melodies:
Greensleeves
The Yellow Rose Of Texas
Theme from Gilligan's Island
I Saw Three Ships
Amazing Grace
The Itsy Bitsy Spider

example Poems:
lyrics to all those melodies
most Emily Dickinson poems
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

All of the poems can be shoehorned (more or less) into all of the melodies, because they are all in what is called "common meter" for hymns, or "ballad meter" for songs in general and for poems. But the contrast between Emily Dickinson poems and Yellow Rose is particularly funny, especially when the poems themselves get mashed up too.

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