Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Poetry In Music?
Please Quote One Of Your Favorite Song Lines Or Lyrics And Explain How It Exhibits One Of Our Studied Poetry Terms? Make sure that your quoted lyrics are appropriate. Please italicize the song lyrics, include the song title/artist(s), and qualify or establish the connection between the poetry term and the lyrics. (Due Friday 1-08-2010 by 2:30p.m.)
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I get a thousand hugs from ten thousand lighting bugs ass they try to teach me how to dance..........
Personification
Alan Jackson
Sissy's Song
"She flew up to Heaven on the wings of angels"
this represents allegory because it is a spiritual representation of a woman dieing and going to heaven.
"They deftly maneuver and muscle for rank, Fuel burning fast on an empty tank." These lyrics are extracted from the song The Distance by the artist Cake. These lyrics are connected to the term rhyme. Rank and tank are the two word that rhyme in the lyrics. The rhyme in the lyrics and associated with end rhyme and are the same length.
"Don't Stop Believin" by Journey. Some will win. Some will lose. Some were born to sing the blues. Oh, the movie never ends. It goes on and on and on and on. Don't stop believin' Hold on to the feelin.
"I was roaming around, I was looking down at all I see.
Painted faces fill the places i can't reach.
You know that I can use somebody.
You know that I can use somebody." The lyrics in this song have a deeper meaning if you think about it. It is like a poem because of that.
"There was a new girl in town, she had it all figured out, well I'll state something rash, she had the most amazing smile! I bet you didn't expect that, she made me change my ways, with eyes like sunset baby, and legs that went on for days. I'm falling in love but its falling apart I need to find my way back to the start, when we were in love and things were better then they are, let me back into, into your arms!" This song Into Your Arms by The Maine relates with our study of poetry because the lyrics I used could make one stanza and they all connect back to the main idea of the poem/song.
"There's no time like the present to build a future from the past for hearts that are breaking there's healing at last" is sung by Ron David Moore called The Shape of Your Heart. The connection of this lyric is the ballad, which is a narrative poem of strongly marked rhythm suitable for singing.
"I'll be fine even though im not always right, i can count on the sun to shine, dedication takes a long time but a dream only last for a night." All Time Low,(stay awake). these lyrics really stick out to me every time i hear this song, songs are poetry, they both have a deeper meaning or connection with in them. i think
"If everyone cared, and nobody cried, if everyone loved, and nobody lied. If everyone shared, and swallowed their pride, then we'd see the day, that nobody died." -If Everyone Cared, by Nickelback
These lyrics represent a cadence and an assonance. The sequence has a rhythmic flow and the same sounds throughout the lyrics. The overall theme of the song is also shown through these lyrics.
" Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial it's not a question but a lesson learned in time it's something unpredictable but in the end its right i hope you had the time of your life." This is "Time of your life" by Green Day and it shows the poetic guidelines by having a deeper meaning than what it shows, it makes you think and put your mind into it and really think about your text. It also shows imagery and put that picture of the tattoos and dead skin on trial in your head.
"Life is too short so love the one you got
Cause you might get runover or you might get shot
Never start no static
I just get it off my chest
Never had to battle with no bulletproof vest"
this song represents an end rhyme.
Written and presented by Sublime
"Cause you are my Manhattan from the sky
You look so neat and tidy when I'm way up high
But I know your streets are lined with felt a fine mess inside
And I wanna come down and walk around, your mine." These lyrics are from Manhattan From the Sky by Kate Voegele. This represents a metaphor. It is comparing a person and the city of Manhattan, the skyline of Manhattan and the outside of the person are beautiful and put together. Manhattan and the person are both a mess on the inside.
If we crawl til we can walk again Then well run Until were strong enough to jump. Then well fly Until there is no end. So lets crawl, crawl, crawl Back to love. Yeah, back to love, yeah.
This is personification, becasue they arnt really crawling they are just saying that there relationship is not strong so they have to be careful until it is strong again. They are giving feelings human behaviors.
"I dont want to go through the motion" This song by Matthew West it a Paradox, because it seems self-contadictind, but it is so true. Many of us just go through the motions of doing so many things, instead of taking things to heart, and actually believing and loving.
Erin Chilton -"the angel from my nightmare, the shadow in the backround of the morgue..." - Blink 182, I miss you. These lyrics represent an oxymoron because you wouldn't usually expect a good angel to be in a bad nightmare. The two are opposites that are used to describe what the song is about.
I've got sunshine on a cloudy day.
My Girl- The Temptations
That line is an oxymoron, putting two contradictory words together. An oxymoron is a poetry term. This is one of many songs that can prove song lyrics are poems.
"With the war all around there was no other sound and our eyes they were stung by the light of the sun, that was fast rising I grabbed your hand in mine, our fingers intertwined"
"Last Mistake" by Hey Ocean! This song is like a poem put to music.
"Money don't grow on trees." ~Ain't No Rest For The Wicked by Cage The Elephant
This is a figure of speech because of the fact that in actuality money really does not grow on trees.
Photograph
By: Nickleback
Every memory of looking out the back door
I had the photo album spread out on my bedroom floor
It's hard to say it, time to say it
Goodbye, goodbye……
To me this song is a allegory because it is telling a story about life. I also think it is a imagery type of song because it really make you relate and think about memories that you have.
As I caught my breath again you were running out of lies to keep me under afraid of your back hands
So to speak, you had me shaking at the knees but I don't know the way out of this mess No, I don't know the way out of this mess And if you would've seen me at my best
Would it have changed anything at all? Remember when -- we never had to remember when times were better
When times were better than this
The door was always open But still not nearly enough to let me in
and my eyes are wide awake,And i can see you clearly, but you don't stand out one bit.I was always loud enough just for you to hear me You never caught the wind Now watch me break Breakdown this time, this time again
The Rhyme in parts of the lyrics
"You better lose yourself in the music, the moment
You own it, you better never let it go go
You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime yo"
I think that this represents rhythm.
A Drop in The Ocean by Ron Pope.
"A drop in the ocean, a change in the weather, I was prayin that you and me might end up together."
This is rhyme. A very simple form of poetry.
"Got to change my answering machine now that I'm alone because right now it says that we can't come to the phone. I know it makes no sense that you walked out the door but its the only way I see your face anymore." These lyrics from the song "So Sick" are an example of a slant rhyme.
18th floor balcony - Blue October
I close my eyes and I smile
Knowing that everything is alright
To the core
So close that door
Is this happening?
My breath is on your hair
I'm unaware
That you opened the blinds and let the city in
God, you held my hand
And we stand
Just taking in everything
“Here we are now with the falling sky and the rain,
We're awakening
Here we are now with our desperate youth and the pain,
We're awakening
Maybe it's called ambition, you've been talking in your sleep
About a dream, we're awakening”
I picked the song “Awakening” by Switchfoot because it reminded me of the term Personification. The term Personification means giving human traits (qualities, feelings, action, or characteristics) to non-living objects (things, colors, qualities, or ideas).
I remember every look upon your face
The way you roll your eyes
The way you taste
You make it hard for breathing
'Cause when I close my eyes and drift away
I think of you and everything's okay
I'm finally now believing Two is better than One by Boys like Girls.
This song shows rhyme and it also represents ballad because it is a song about how they miss that certain someone which tells a story. It also uses octave because there are different tones to the song because it is sung.
Life is Beautiful by Sixx AM
"You can’t breathe until you choke
You gotta laugh when you’re the joke
There’s nothing like a funeral to make you feel alive" This is an example of a metaphore because you can't have one of these things without the other.
"That most definitely I will be attracted to you
If you pick my left side
Because you know how we do, we do
I'm selfish as selfish comes
You're giving me a run for my money
Honey
Cause conflict and make your top pick
Restitch my ripped jeans
And take the old ones
Take the old ones out back
Sew them tight at the seams please
I've got so many ripped knees, ripped knees"
(Teasing to please by cute is what we aim for)
-so this song has a deep meaning to it and i think that free verse is best shown in this song also along with it being a lyric poem.
"I got a couple dents in my vendor, got a couple rips in my jeans, try to put the pieces together, perfection is my enemy"
This song Free to Be Me by Francesca Battistelli is like a poem because of its symbolism. It is comparing certain everyday things to life.
Someday by Rob Thomas,” Maybe someday we will figure all this out, try to put an end to all our doubts and try to find a way to make things better now,
Maybe someday we will live our lives out loud, we will be better off some how, someday”
This song really speaks to me, this song is poetry because it has such a deep meaning and it expresses a lot of emotion which is what I think poetry is.
"I say high, you say low
You say why and I say I don't know, oh no
You say goodbye and I say hello
(Hello goodbye hello goodbye) Hello hello
(Hello goodbye) I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello
(Hello goodbye hello goodbye) Hello hello
(Hello goodbye) I don't know why you say goodbye
(Hello goodbye) I say hello/goodbye"
The Beatles Hello Goodbye.
This if you analysis it has many means.
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