Singing songs of bards long gone /// Loreena McKennitt Serves Saturday's Sensuality

January 26, 2013 at 5:04 am (art, creative writing, culture, entertainment, exploring interconnectedness, history, life, poetry, random)
Tags: culture, Dark Night of the Soul, entertainment, highwayman, history, Lady of Shalott, life, literature, Lorenena McKennitt, love, Mummers, music, Noyes, passion, poem, poems, poetry, random, spirituality, St. John of the Cross, Stolen Child, Tennyson, video, videos, Yeats

So often in these times of vast literary ignorance it’s  forgotten that “songs” and poetry move together. Today’s rock stars have nothing on the travelling bards of the past who relied on their musical talents for daily survival.  Odd that many who currently evade poetry like a plague yet adore their modern musical choices.  What are song lyrics but poems?  Loreena McKennitt’s music often draws directly upon the rich works of dead poets.  I doubt any of them, the dead poets, are complaining.

Loreena McKennitt’s renditions are nothing if not sensual sound feasts. 

Loreena McKennitt:

The Highwayman

via Flyborray

poem by Alfred Noyes

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/171940

The Dark Night of the Soul

via Ginevra Corvino

poem by St. John of the Cross

Poems Found in Translation

http://poemsintranslation.blogspot.com/2009/09/saint-john-of-cross-dark-night-of-soul.html

The Stolen Child

via JulioCzar6

Poem by W.B. Yeats

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stolen_Child

The Lady of Shalott

via alantisreturning

Poem by Alfred, Lord  Tennyson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_of_Shalott

One more for fun.

The Mummers Dance

via  JulioCzar6

More on Mummers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummers_Play

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