EMPATHY's
Recommended Song Lyrics & Poetry
for interpersonal and small group communication classes

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Many teachers make creative use of song lyrics and poetry. We welcome recommendations, assignments, exercises, and the sources of appropriate song lyrics and poetry for instructional purposes. Web based links to the text or bibliographic references are essnetial if such recommendations are to be useful.

Assignments using lyrics, poetry, quotations
 

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Song lyrics
 
  • Songfile now "bring you the most comprehensive music source on the web." Currently this site does not provide the lyrics; they once did and they claim to be working to resolve the copyright issues which caused them to withdraw access. http://www.songfile.com/

    "Iris" by the Goo Goo Dolls

    "Jumper" made popular by the Third Eye Blind.

    "Uninvited" by Alanis Morrisette

    "Us" by Peter Gabriel

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Poems
 
  • The Poetry Archive provides a large full-text collection of royalty free classical poetry. Searches can be completed by author, title, and first line of a poem. There are advertising banners and there is a separate royalty section. http://www.emule.com/   (Not active as of September 14, 2003)

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