What do you feel when you listen to Anne Porter’s poem about music?
How is is different from theSeamus Heaney Poem?
What is the power of music?
It can wake up someone suffering from dementia and it can be a soundtrack to a difficult time or a joyous time.
God has given us music so that above all it can lead us upwards. Music unites all qualities: it can exalt us, divert us, cheer us up, or break the hardest of hearts with the softest of its melancholy tones. But its principal task is to lead our thoughts to higher things, to elevate, even to make us tremble.