ABSTRACT

Piaf saying she regrets nothing or Frank Sinatra declaring he did it his way. It’s the ‘Ah yes’ factor. ‘Ah yes, that’s exactly how it is.’

From the complex philosophical broodings of Shakespeare to the great modern lyricist, the individual writer can articulate for us our own thoughts and feelings. This must surely be the aspiration of anyone who puts pen to paper, or finger to keyboard: to capture in words a personal expression of thought or feeling that translates into a universal expression of the same. How?