Tuesday, January 5, 2016
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
1-8-2016 by 2:30p.m.)
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Whitney Houston's song, ¨I will always love you¨ uses the poetry form of a ballad. In one line she sings, ¨And I will always love you.¨ A ballad is a narrative set to music, which is why this line is an example of a ballad. This whole song is an amazing ballad.
A world that sends you reeling, From decimated dreams, Your misery and hate will kill us all, So paint it black and take it back,Let's shout out loud and clear,Defiant to the end we hear the call,
To carry on, we'll carry on,
My Chemical Romance - Welcome To The Black Parade
This song uses symbolism and allusion to hint at the bigger problems, along with a rhythm that flows very well.
"And I can't lift the weight, no, I can't lift the weight
Yeah, you stand on my shoulders and my heart just breaks"
Shawn Mendes- The Weight
This song represents a metaphor, The Weight symbolizing the internal issues he struggles with that feel like a physical weight on his shoulders.
"I want to swim away but don't know how
Sometimes it feels just like I'm falling in the ocean"
Blue October- Into The Ocean
I believe this song is a metaphor, because the ocean is what he's struggling to get away from. The ocean just happens to also mean his problems.
" Life's like an hourglass glued to the table" This is a simile because it is comparing life to an hourglass using like. This means that time is running out and there is no way to get good moments or bad ones back. Carpe Diem!
"Life is a high way, I'm gonna ride it all night long"
Rascal Flatts- Life is a Highway
Throughout the song many metaphors are made, relating life to a long road.
"I see you move your lips, but it sounds like gibberish"
MAX - Gibberish
This one line is a blank verse, and can also be considered a consonance.
"My hearts a stereo it beats for you so listen close hear my thoughts in ever note"
Gym Class Hero's Ft.Adam Levine
This song has simile's in it, comparing his heart to a stereo and his thoughts being notes.
In Katy Perry's song "Firework", she uses and onomatopoeia in her bridge to the chorus which states "Boom, boom, boom, even brighter then the moon, moon, moon". This is an example of poetry because she uses a sound to open a verse. There are many more metaphors and similes also through out the song.
In the song, Let it go, by Passenger has rhyming in it which relates to poetry." Only know you’ve been high when you’re feeling low
Only hate the road when you’re missing home
Only know you love her when you let her go
And you let her go"
The lyrics from Sorry by Justin Bieber,
You gotta go and get
Angry at all of my honesty
You know I try but I don't do too well with apologies
I hope I don't run out of time, could someone call a referee?
Cause I just need one more shot at forgiveness
These lyrics describe the style, tone, and theme in the song. The style in the lyrics is that the person Justin is talking to won't forgive him for his honesty towards the person he was talking to. A lot of tone is add with the details he is adding in the song. For example, “ Hope I don't run out of time, could someone call a referee?” Justin is explaining that if there is enough time to call a referee to help him apologize for his honesty that came out wrong. Lastly,he kept the theme throughout the song. He kept it by apologizing for what he did and that the person he is trying to apologize to is ignoring him because she is mad at him. Overall, JUstin has a lot of poetic terms in the song Sorry but style, tone, and theme stand out the most in this song.
One of my favorite songs at the moment is Purpose by Justin Bieber. The first lines of the lyrics are "Feeling like I'm breathing my last breath-Feeling like I'm walking my last steps". These lyrics exhibits simile, one of our studied poetry terms. The simile from the words "like" describes how Justin experienced a rough time in his life and he did not see any happiness coming his way. The chorus and the catch phrase of the song is "You give me purpose". He finally found an inspiration to keep going.
One of my favorite songs is Sorry by Justin Bieber. " I know you know that I ,Made those mistakes maybe once or twice, And by once or twice I Mean, Maybe a couple a hundred times, So let me oh let me, Redeem oh redeem oh myself tonight, Cause I just need one more shot at second chances." The reason I chose this song was because it represents all the stuff that he did in his life and how he deserves second chances even though he did some bad things.
"A heart glows in the night, in the day hearts turn to dust
Say it and mean it, so this heart learns to trust"
In this song, Learn To Trust by Bad Suns, the lyrics demonstrate many metaphors. They are talking about how people can get hurt and after a while they need to learn to trust other people again.
I chose the lyrics: Now I'm floating like a butterfly
Stinging like a bee I earned my stripes
I went from zero, to my own hero
From Roar by Katy Perry
She uses an Onomatopoeia to express her feelings.
"You can watch the world, circle round the drain"
In Lucian's "Bobby K", the drain is used as a metaphor to suggest that because of society, our world is going to waste.
"And I didn't wanna write a song
Cause I didn't want anyone thinking I still care
I don't but, you still hit my phone up
And baby I be movin' on
And I think you should be somethin'
I don't wanna hold back, maybe you should know that"
-Justin Bieber, Love Yourself
This song shows emotions towards this person. In my poetry writing, I use words that my audience can relate to and understand the tone of the poem without having a background of music. Using these words are critical in poetry because you can set a tone to guide the reader in how you are feeling.
“Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon
Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned?
Can you sing with all the voices of the mountains?
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?
Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest
Come taste the sunsweet berries of the Earth
Come roll in all the riches all around you
And for once, never wonder what they're worth
The rainstorm and the river are my brothers
The heron and the otter are my friends”
Colors of the Wind, Pocahontas
This songs includes personification, similes, metaphors, and there is a rhyme scheme here and there. Especially in this song, because it is comparing many natural things to humans or giving them human characteristics it is important because otherwise the song would not make sense.
Twenty one Pilots Stressed out
I was told when I get older all my fears would shrink,
But now I'm insecure and I care what people think.
Has a rhythm to it. Helps with the words to flow.
Once we were like bottle rockets
Now I know I have to stop it
Please believe me
This isn't easy
I just need to say goodbye
-Goodbye by Who is Fancy
The first line, “Once we were like bottle rockets,” is a simile and lines one and two rhyme, as well as three and four.
" When she looks me in the eyes
They don't seem as bright
No more, no more, I know
Then she loved me at one time
Would I promise her that night
Cross my heart and hope to die"
~ I Know What You Did Last Summer by Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello
In this song it shows a feeling starting with the metaphor. It shows that when he saw her saw that something was wrong, that there was no love anymore, and then followed by saying if he could go back that he would tell her that he promises to love her always.
We're all fighting growing old
We're all fighting growing old
In the hopes
Of a few minutes more
To get, get on St. Peter's list
But you need to lower your standards
Cause it's never
Getting any better than this
-Rat at tat by Fall out boy
In this song they use repetition to create emphasis, and drag the listener in.
"...mud digger and my chevy sittin on 44s pipes louder glass packs straight pipes yall know,
mud digger yall don't know how mud diggin goes, get a couple of tickets to the mud boggin show,..."
Mud Digger Colt Ford ft. Lenny Cooper
This song uses a lot of rhyming mostly at the end of each line, in the beginning, and throughout the middle of the song.
My mind is a warrior,
My heart is a foreigner,
My eyes are the color of red like the sunset,
I'll never keep it bottled up,
Left to the hands of the coroner,
Be a true heart not a follower,
We're not done yet now,
I see it in your movements tonight,
If we can ever do this right,
I'm never gonna let you down,
Oh I'll never let you down,
Now keep it on the down low
And I'll keep you around so I'll know,
That I'll never let you down,
I'll never let you down.
- great 8 by Ed sheeran
this song uses a few metaphors used to explain the meaning
"If only the clockwork could speak
I wouldn't be so alone"
Shatter Me by Lindsey Stirling
The artist uses personification to illustrate how alone she feels
My lyric is from the song Big Girls Don't Cry-Fergie
My lyric is, "It's personal, myself and I we got some straightening up to do...it's time to be a big girl now, and big girls don't cry." The song line is the type of poetic term Allegory because it is a song lyric that shows that you do not need a man or anyone to take care of you, you can be self-sufficient.
"The leaves of brown came tumbling down
Remember, in September, in the rain
The sun went out just like a dying amber
That September in the rain" -September in the Rain by Frank Sinatra
This stanza in the song has rhyming words in the second and fourth lines within the lines, and it also has similes and personification.
My song Nikki by logic uses personification. He uses it by saying Said ¨I’m a slave for the nicotine¨. Since nicotine is not a person and is not a living thing it is personification. Nicotine can not actually enslave a person but, in this song it is represented as a controlling manipulative person. Which is having the effect of enslaving the artist.
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