Is Opeth poetry?

[Demilich]

"Even metal, rap and cannibal corpse" bwhahahahaahahahahahahahhahahahaha

That was quite hilarious. You made my day.

 

[kingshit]

why bother discussing this?

its a forum isent it

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[Neo Autumn]

But the word artistic, or art, means design if you take the old greek meaning for it. Things with design have structure and follow some kind of rules. To make poetry without ANY rules is kind of dumb to me, because it's just anti-structure, or chaos. Children could make poetry without design easily. Rules don't necessarily have to consist of rhyme and metre either, they can be very complex and you may have to look for them. Anyway, enough of that, Opeth's lyrics could easily pass as poetry if you ask me. I am, however, much more of a melody person, and I think it matters much more how you say it than what is said.

That's very true. One poetic device which is used frequently is metaphor, the heart of most lyrics (lol that's a metaphor itself). But I don't think all writers are actively concious about the rules. Like most have said, they're just expressing themselves with writing. :Spin: