Monetisation of poetry through music

Abstract

This paper demonstrates how poetry can be monetised through music. The purpose is to address the unfortunate dichotomy between poetry and music by recommending that poets can make money through writing music. To achieve this objective, a comprehensive review of related literature was done. It was found that though music has the semblance of poetry, majority were not written by trained or experienced poets. This is because poets have failed to see the correlation between poetry and music. On that basis, the paper substantiates a comparative analysis of the relationship of poetry to music to birth skills for money. The research methodology is a qualitative analysis of randomly selected poems and music. It also recommends that the art of poetry needs to go beyond mere analysis and classification of poems as mostly taught in citadels of learning. It is pivotal that the entrepreneurial angle of poetry be emphasised too. The research finds that poets fail as a result of their education, to write poems into songs so as to make money through it/them. They also fail to explore Artificial Intelligence (AI) which can mitigate cost and access to studio in making beats and melody. In conclusion the paper advocates harmonisation of the craft of poetry and music for mutual survival of both.