Tuesday, January 6, 2015
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
1-9-2015 by 2:30p.m.)
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"Caught in the riptide," Here With Me by: Susie Suh. This quote from this song relates to the poetry terms in our study because it is a metaphor. The artist says that they are caught in a riptide because they are drifting away from reality. A metaphor is connecting two objects or ideas together to create a visual or another idea.
The song Stronger my Kelly Klarkson uses symbolism. The song lyrics are "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Stand a little taller
Doesn't mean I'm lonely when I'm alone
What doesn't kill you makes a fighter
Footsteps even lighter
Doesn't mean I'm over cause you're gone". These lyrics have a hidden meaning of being a better person after something bad happens. For instance standing taller could just mean sitting up strait, but in the song this represents being more confident and having no second thoughts on yourself as a person.
The song "Reflections" by misterwives showcases symbolism in the lyric "You didnt close the door, left a crack open I couldn't ignore." The hidden meaning is that the person she is singing to, didn't fully close the option of them being ogether and left her confused. Also, In he lyric "Shattering anything that has relfections of you" means that shes trying to destroy all all memories and things that remind her of them.
"And they say
She's in the Class A Team
Stuck in her daydream
Been this way since eighteen
But lately her face seems
Slowly sinking, wasting
Crumbling like pastries"
This song kind of rhymes at the end for example Team- Eighteen. Wasting- pastries. I like how the song writer made it sound like they rhyme when they really don't.
“Something in the Water” by Carrie Underwood does not only have a great message behind the song of showing that things can get better. In the song there is two examples that really showed my how it connected to poetry and those were “Opened my eyes and told me the truth” and “and now I am changed and now I am stronger”. The first lyric shows a lot of meaning when it says opened MY eyes and TOLD ME the truth, this is a play on words of having the opening her eyes made her realize something telling her what she needed to realize. In the second line it says and now twice showing that one thing that changed can have a bigger effect. Although, both of these don’t have an exact poetry term, it shows a lot of poetry off of playing on words and having a deeper meaning when connecting all the words in a phrase.
Wake me up when September ends by Green Day
"Here comes the rain again
Falling from the stars
Drenched in my pain again
Becoming who we are" These lyrics have a lot of figurative language in them, "here comes the rain again" is imagery because you can see it happening it also has a behind meaning because it is talking about how sad he is not the rain. Drenched in my pain again could be personification or a metaphor because you can't actually be drenched in pain and it is making something. The hidden meaning of it is that the singer of the song is talking about the tragedy of his dad dying and the pain he is going through.
"These words are knifes and often leave scars." This Is Gospel, by Panic! At The Disc. This is very symbolic and like a metaphor. This is very symbolic because through out the song he talks about how you should never be selfish no matter how hard and inconvenient it may be for you. The main symbol behind it is that the thinks that you say really hurt people. The metaphor in the song uncovers that no matter what you still matter. If you love me let me go. In meaning of something else, what I believe he means by this is; For example, if you have a drug addiction, you may think that the drug is a positive thing in your life. By the time you are not under the influence, you realize that the drug is really bad and not worth it. Addictions are hard but if you want whats best let it go.
The song “Pompeii” by Bastille portrays one of our studied poetry terms because it gives an example of an Ode because it gives a tribute to something and it changes the way you feel about this place. It helps you understand what it was like to be there and to know how this subject affects people in different ways.
But if you close your eyes,
Does it almost feel like
Nothing changed at all?
And if you close your eyes,
Does it almost feel like
You've been here before?
How am I gonna be an optimist about this?
How am I gonna be an optimist about this?
"And if the night is burning
I will cover my eyes
For if the dark returns then
My brothers will die
And as the sky's falling down
It crashed into this lonely town
And with that shadow upon the ground
I hear my people screaming out"
This song "I See Fire" by Ed Sheeran shows the hidden meaning of how everything is going wrong but he will always fight for him in his brothers. This song expresses a hyperbole because of the exaggeration in the sense that the world is falling apart and the sky is coming down which in reality, doesn't happen.
"The more I see the less I know
The more I'd like to let it go" is one of my favorite song lyrics because it shows that if you let go of the bad things life will be better. The song Snow(hey Oh)by The Red Hot Chili Peppers is a song about how the world has bad things but when it is "as white as snow" it is pure and peaceful.
The song "Firework" by Katy Perry has the lyrics "Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin like a house of cards,one blow from caving in?...Cause there's a spark in you" These lyrics are showing the use of a simile. They are also saying to the listener that if you are in a deeper place there is still hope for you, and you are more than what you are putting yourself to. Another lyric also is " cause baby your a firework" this is saying that you are bright and you can just be who you are as a person. The song is like poetry because poetry usually tells a story and that is what this song is doing.
The lyrics "The long and winding road that leads to your door will never disappear..." from "The Long and Winding Road" by the Beatles relate to the poetry terms we have been discussing because they are free verse there's no rhyme or regular meter/beat. I think these lyrics are saying that there's a long winding road that will lead to a door, but the door will never disappear and it will always be there so you can return.
One of my favorite Christmas songs is "Last Christmas" by Wham. One of the lines say "Last Christmas, I gave you my heart. But the very next day, you gave it away". This is a personification because it is giving a human like trait to a heart.
"Blackbird" by The Beatles has a symbolic meaning that draws attention to racial segregation in Little Rock, Arkansas. In the song lyrics, it doesn't directly come out and say that they are singing about that so that demonstrates that the relates to an Allegory because the true meaning of what is being said in not always obvious and has a deeper message. "Take these broken wings and learn to fly." This line in the song is symbolizing the struggle that people were going through during this time period.
The song "Cowboy Casanova" by Carrie Underwood has some similes in the lyrics. "You better take it from me
That boy is like a disease
You're running
You're tired
You're trying to hide
And you're wondering why you can't get free
He's like a curse
He's like a drug". Similes make a comparison between two things using the words "like" or "as" and in the song she says "that boy is like a disease" this line is a simile because she is describing how the boy is a disease when nobody can truly be a disease.
"In the end, as we fade into the night [Whoa!)
Who will tell the story of your life?
In the end, as my soul's laid to rest
What is left of my body?
Or am I just a shell?
I have fought
And with flesh and blood, I commanded an army
Through it all
I have given my heart for a moment of glory"
The song In The End by Black Veil Brides has a lot of figurative language in it. The lyric "as we fade into the night" doesn't mean you fade away. It's just another way of saying "what's going to happen to me when I die?"
Perfect Storm by: Brad Paisley
"She's Sunday drive meets high speed chase she isn't just a song she's the whole mixed tape She's so complicated that's the way God made her sunshine mixed with a little hurricane she don't just rain she pours, that girl right there's a perfect storm"
This shows symbolism because a girl cannot truly be a perfect storm, what he means is she has the ability to drive his emotions crazy and make him crazy, sad, mad, happy, excited. When he says she is a perfect storm he means she is a perfect mess. This also demonstrates an oxymoron because a storm is not perfect its just the opposite.
"Dark Side" by Kelly Clarkson has the lyrics:
Everybody's got a dark side
Do you love me?
Can you love mine?
Nobody's a picture perfect
This song really can relate to poetry with the idea that everything has a dark side and it is up to the author if they want to express the dark side of the good side of different situations. This song represents both sides of life, with love and darkness. The symbol of both together has a poetic form that is relate able to all situations in life.
The song "Hey There Delilah" by Plain White T’s. One line in this song says, "Time's square can't shine as bright as you" This is a simile because it is comparing two things using like or as, in this situation they are comparing times square and the girl that is being talked about. Also in the song it has a lot of repetition because it says the line, "Oh it's what you do to me" many times and repetition is a poetic term used to give affect.
The song "Fire Work" by Katy Perry relates to our poetry because it use a simile; Do you ever feel like a plastic bag
Drifting through the wind, wanting to start again?
Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin
Like a house of cards, one blow from caving in?
I wasn't in this class last semester so I'm not sure exactly what terms were studied, but one of my all time favorite songs is Must Have Been the Roses by the Grateful dead. I interpretted the song as a man singing about why he fell in love with a woman. The Grateful dead have many great songs but Must Have Been the Roses is definitely a favorite of mine.
“Lady, running down to the riptide taking away from the darkside”
Riptide by Vance Joy
The songs line exhibits an Allegory. A Allegory in poetry is interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning. The songs line has a hidden meaning behind it. Their could be many different ways to try and interpret this line, but, just like in poetry, their is no real answer. The answer comes from the inside of the person who wrote this line. Only they shall know what it means, but they put it in a way that creates different meanings for everyone. To reveal a hidden meaning is what poets do best. Like them, songs explicit the same message just with a beat and rhythm. To create this both writers will need to dig deep to explain in an imaginative and descriptive way to hide the meaning while revealing it at the same time. The poems and songs now add emotion to someone and find a way for it to have a different meaning for everyone.
Addicted to you By Avicii The quote "Addicted to you" relates to poetry because it is a metaphor. What this means is that she cannot live with out this persons love. This love is something she cant give up. This love is her drug.
Summertime Sadness By Lana Del Rey
Oh, my God, I feel it in the air
Telephone wires above are sizzling like a snare
Honey, I'm on fire, I feel it everywhere
Nothing scares me anymore
This song by Lana Del Rey is a great example of a hyperbole as well as a metaphor. When Lana says, “Oh, my God, I feel it in the air”, and, “Telephone wires above are sizzling like a snare”, are both metaphors because they are being related to something totally different but that can still have similarities discovered in them. The telephone wires and snares don’t really have anything to do with each other but they both can be related through the buzzing of the electricity and the buzzing of the energy in a snare. Lana also can not actually feel sadness in the air, air and sadness are completely different, however she could be relating it to a lack of warmth. Sadness is often related to cold weather which can be felt in the air. “Honey, I’m on fire, I feel it everywhere” is a hyperbole, obviously Lana is not actually on fire, it is simply how she feels. The pain of her summertime sadness is so great that she is relating her pain to the exaggeration of being completely submerged in fire.
The song Our song by Tsylor swift HAs personification because it is saying their song is a slamming screen door. "Our song is a slamming screen door,
Sneakin' out late, tapping on your window
When we're on the phone and you talk real slow
Cause it's late and your mama don't know
Our song is the way you laugh
The first date "man, I didn't kiss her, when I should have"
And when I got home... fore' I said amen
Asking God if He could play it again"
"I'm breaking free from these memories" Let Me Go By: Avril Lavigne. I really love this because it seems so bland but really has a deeper meaning. If you really think about it this could mean many different things. It really only depends on your view on the world and your feelings about it.
The song Oh My Darling, Clementine by Percy Montrose in 1884. The song is a poem itself and I had to memorize it in 5th grade the lyric Like she was, just like a fairy shows a simile because it is describing Clementine to a fairy.
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