What's the difference between poem and song?

Poem


Definition:

  • (n.) A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and poetic diction; -- contradistinguished from prose; as, the poems of Homer or of Milton.
  • (n.) A composition, not in verse, of which the language is highly imaginative or impassioned; as, a prose poem; the poems of Ossian.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When she died in 1994, Hopkins-Thomas and his mother – Jessie’s niece – were gifted the masses of drawings and poems Knight had collected over the years.
  • (2) When we arrived, he would instruct us to spend the morning composing a song or a poem, or inventing a joke or a charade.
  • (3) His parting tribute to the Things Fall Apart author, said Soyinka, would be the poem he wrote to Achebe when he turned 70.
  • (4) Crawford's own poetry was informed by contact with refugees – "I began to think seriously about what it felt like to lose your country or culture, and in my first book, there are one or two poems that are versions of Vietnamese poems" – and scientists, whose vocabulary he initially "stole because it seemed so metaphorically resonant.
  • (5) Whatever conclusion the crowd might have drawn, what's striking is that Tempest's poem couldn't be ignored: the conviction and drama of her performance forced a reaction and coloured the rest of the evening.
  • (6) One particular poem attacked by Liao, he said, is not praising a disgraced party official, but is actually satire.
  • (7) More than once, she replies to a question by wrinkling her nose and saying: “It’s all in the book.” Tempest can’t quite see why the breadth of her output – songs, poems, plays, a novel – is notable, because it’s all about writing and performance.
  • (8) There's no doubt that MacMaster expended an enormous amount of effort compiling the blog and creating Gay Girl's persona: poems, long imaginary reminiscences – even warning readers to treat some other websites "with a very large grain of salt" – but to what purpose?
  • (9) Raymond Hood – Terminal City (1929) 'Poem of towers' … Raymond Hood's 1929 drawings for the proposed Terminal City, in Chicago This never-built design for a massive new skyscraper quarter in Chicago is a vision of the modern city as a shadowed poem of towers; of glass and concrete dwarfing the people.
  • (10) His collection of poems Beware Soul Brother (1971) and the volume of short stories Girls at War and Other Stories (1972) drew on the experiences of the war.
  • (11) His charge sheet includes numerous assaults (one against a waiter who served him the wrong dish of artichokes); jail time for libelling a fellow painter, Giovanni Baglione, by posting poems around Rome accusing him of plagiarism and calling him Giovanni Coglione (“Johnny Bollocks”); affray (a police report records Caravaggio’s response when asked how he came by a wound: “I wounded myself with my own sword when I fell down these stairs.
  • (12) Other big-name winners at the Sony awards included Sir David Attenborough, named speech broadcaster of the year, and Bono, for BBC Radio 4's Elvis By Bono, in which the U2 frontman read a self-penned poem about Elvis Presley set to archive clips and music .
  • (13) When, as a sixth-former, I sent my first, almost-publishable poems to Ross, he returned them, but not with a printed rejection slip.
  • (14) He even recited Tennyson's poem to a classroom of Russian children in Moscow, possibly a tad insensitively, given that it was about an incident in the Crimean war, though they nodded politely.
  • (15) Eliot's poem – composed in the emotional carnage of the post-second world war period – was originally entitled (borrowing, shamelessly, from Dickens's Our Mutual Friend), He Do the Police in Different Voices.
  • (16) Louise Glück’s prose-poem collection, Faithful and Virtuous Night , won for poetry.
  • (17) Although the precise etiopathogenesis of the vascular proliferations remains speculative, these lesions merit study since they constitute an easily recognizable marker of POEMS syndrome.
  • (18) The poem touches a chord, because it doesn't deal with the often incoherent motivations of those who smashed up Tottenham and elsewhere, but the feelings of the rest of us: shocked, unsettled and confused.
  • (19) Hundreds of postcards, letters and parcels arrived, carrying not only words but also books, photographs, maps, stories and poems.
  • (20) She was shortlisted for a Forward prize at the age of 30 for her first collection, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, took the TS Eliot prize with her second , a remarkable book-length poem about the river Dart, and is now, 15 years later, widely hailed as one of British poetry's finest, brightest voices.

Song


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is sung or uttered with musical modulations of the voice, whether of a human being or of a bird, insect, etc.
  • (n.) A lyrical poem adapted to vocal music; a ballad.
  • (n.) More generally, any poetical strain; a poem.
  • (n.) Poetical composition; poetry; verse.
  • (n.) An object of derision; a laughingstock.
  • (n.) A trifle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This week's unconfirmed claims that Kim's uncle Jang Song Thaek had been ousted from power have refocused attention on the country's domestic affairs; some analysts say Jang was associated with reform .
  • (2) Quotes Justin Timberlake: "Even more importantly customers love it … over 20 million listening on iTunes Radio, listened to over a billion songs.
  • (3) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
  • (4) Unilateral lesions of n. intercollicularis (previously implicated in the control of vocal behavior) had little effect on song.
  • (5) When we arrived, he would instruct us to spend the morning composing a song or a poem, or inventing a joke or a charade.
  • (6) It’s going to affect everybody.” The six songs from Rebel Heart released thus far do not shy away from controversy: one, Illuminati, mocks the various conspiracy theories on the internet that implicate a variety of entertainers – including Jay-Z and Lady Gaga – in membership of a shadowy ruling elite.
  • (7) Back then, before her life took a darker turn, Holiday was able to leave the song, and its politics, at the door on the way out.
  • (8) HVc and RA grow during the subsong and plastic song periods of song development.
  • (9) Furthermore, the homoeotic legs of SSa females are not required to be present for the detection of courtship song, since females whose homoeotic legs were removed could still distinguish between singing and non-singing males.
  • (10) Song appeared to give Bolt a good luck charm to wear around his wrist.
  • (11) Mahler's Second Symphony - that song of love, renewal, and spiritual growth that Abbado has been singing for more than 40 years.
  • (12) They released a song on (the now banned) YouTube, called Alu Anday (Potatoes and Eggs) taking a swipe at the military as well as sectarian killers.
  • (13) As we walk away from the restaurant, he looks up an interview (with himself) on his iPhone and announces his musical credentials: "Yup, two Radiohead songs in both 'Clueless' and 'Romeo and Juliet', back when all anybody knew was 'Creep'.
  • (14) Alighting upon the final four songs recorded by Drake, he pressed play and began to make notes before setting about mixing them for this putative release.
  • (15) "Here's Munich's Philharmonic Orchestra composing and writing a song for F.C.
  • (16) These results are compatible with the idea that tamoxifen does not block the action of estradiol in the brain of zebra finches, and suggest that the effects of early tamoxifen treatment on the morphology of the song system may reflect central actions of tamoxifen.
  • (17) If you want to describe sex, write a book or a song, or create a medical App,” they explain.
  • (18) Some artists get thousands of songs pitched and they never know, so Beyoncé herself probably never heard it.
  • (19) In mating test, hybrid males cout and are accepted by D. simulans females more than hybrid females (presumably because their song is more "acceptable" to the former).
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cream (1991) was Prince’s fifth US No 1 hit single His profile boosted by Sinéad O’Connor’s version of his song Nothing Compares 2 U, Prince embarked on another film and music project with Graffiti Bridge.