Music and literature will forever be intertwined; both in my mind, and in reality. If it wasn’t for Bloc Party’s ‘Ion Square’, where they used E.E Cummings ‘I Carry Your Heart’, i would never have looked into Cummings poetry. Coincidentally the only poetry i can genuinely say i’ve enjoyed reading, apart from the odd Hardy poem, but who doesn’t love Hardy?
In the same sense different albums remind me of different novels, for reasons i just don’t know. I’ll be so ridiculously disappointed if the film adaptation of ‘Far From the Madding Crowd’ doesn’t include a Mumford and Sons song… And not only because the lead singers wife is playing Bathsheba. I genuinely think they’d fit. In the same way that Florence and the Machine’s ‘Never Let me Go’ reminds me of ‘Great Expectations’., there’s just something in those tracks which conjure up certain images.
But all this just reminds me of a Cummings poem, he writes:
“since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you”
I’m fully aware that this is meant in a different context, but i think it fits in beautifully with my argument. To begin with i sat here trying to understand why i find solace in music, and books… As some would consider it infinitely boring. But Cummings really does just put it right; who cares, just take it as gospel that it’s how it’s meant to be.
anastasiacatherine 