Poetry in music is the main discussion in this essay. There are three ways to connect music and poem. First, represent the emotion of poems through music; second, parallel the syllables and linguistic intonation to rhythm and pitches; third, transform the methods of writing poems into the methods of composing music. ¡§Remember¡¨ and ¡§The Magic Carousal¡¨ are used as examples in this essay. In ¡§Remember,¡¨ the composer semantically transfers the poetry into his/her music by directly borrowing and engaging the linguistic syntax and formal construction into musical composition. Such method is based on the eight different techniques mentioned in ¡§Looming Imagery,¡¨ a chapter from Yong Wu Huang¡¦s Design of Chinese Poetry, as a means to create musical structures. ¡§The Magic Carousal¡¨ adopts the application of musical tone-painting. A composer creates a tone-poem that expresses the poetic imagery and atmosphere. Based on the concept of musical rhetoric, the words are assigned with particular musical contour or gesture that illustrates the poem even more comprehensively.