The Write Focus: Fall into Poetry / Sweet Lies

Here’s an odd way to start a conversation about a song: the word moron.

Hi all. It’s the third episode in our autumn series Fall Into Poetry. We’ve featured two story-songs (narrative poems) that are ballads, not the modern power ballad of the music world but the literature-based ballad with its focus on the subjects of love, betrayal, and death.

This episode’s song is not a ballad, even though it concerns love and betrayal and the death of a relationship. It’s not even a story-song. It’s a lyric poem, which means that it expresses an emotion. We do have hints of a story but not really.

And we’re delving into the song by looking first at the word moron. Odd, I know. A little weird. But there you are.

TIMINGS

00:00 Welcome
00:40 Introduction
03:44 Oxymoron / Shakespeare
07:52 Oxymoronic Characters
08:03 “Little Lies”
11:00 Stanza 2 Twist
13:23 Summation for Writers
14:20 Last Words / Closing

Total Run Time = 16:26

LINKS

“Little Lies” performance https://youtu.be/uCGD9dT12C0

“Little Lies” lyrics https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/fleetwoodmac/littlelies.html

#fleetwoodmac #christinemcvie #littlelies #oxymoron #hamlet #romeoandjuliet

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