I just read Adam Bradley's "Rap Poetry 101," which was interesting, but it made me think more about regular (or do I mean traditional?) poetry more than rap. I had an English teacher in high school who was kind of obsessed about poetry, and I remember that she claimed that poetry started to die out as an art form when poets stopped using rhyme and repetition as primary techniques (at least, that's what I think she said). In Bradley's essay, he shows how rap is performed poetry, and he talks about rhymes and the use of a beat (big repetition there). This led me to think about my sister Rebbie's favorite poem, Poe's "The Raven," and I'm starting to wonder how it would sound as a rap song.
