Tuesday, January 10, 2017
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, January 13, 2017 by 2:30p.m.)
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“If I was a sculptor but then again, no
Or a man who makes potions in a traveling show
Oh, I know it's not much but it's the best I can do
My gift is my song
And this one's for you
And you can tell everybody this is your song
It may be quite simple but now that it's done
I hope you don't mind
I hope you don't mind
That I put down in words
How wonderful life is while you're in the world...” (Your Song, Elton John)
The the song Your Song by Elton John shows repetition and very descriptive imagery. While his lyrics can be confusing, they can be figured out by looking at the descriptive imagery he uses in his lyrics. “If I was a sculptor but then again, no... Or a man who makes potions in a traveling show...” Shows beautiful imagery which shows that his love for this person he is singing about is far greater than any good or bad paying job. “I hope you don’t mind... I hope you don’t mind... That I put down in words... How wonderful life is while you’re in the world...” This line in the song is used very many times throughout the song which is repetition. Repetition is used to emphasize important things someone might want to say. In this case a man wants to emphasize how lucky he is to have this person in his life.
You look so beautiful in this light
Your silhouette over me
The way it brings out the blue in your eyes
Is the Tenerife Sea
And all of the voices surrounding us here
They just fade out when you take a breath
Just say the word and I will disappear
Into the wilderness"
Tenerife Sea- Ed Sheeran
The lyrics in this song really show imagery, synesthesia, rhyme and a tiny bit of personification. He uses very descriptive language to display both the sights and sounds around him. To furthermore convey how he really feels he personifies her silhouette as well as voices. The way he crafts it, especially by saying how the voices go away when she's there communicates the theme of love pretty effectively. He also rhymes every other line most of the time.
"Baby you're a firework
come on show em what you're worth"
Firework- Katy Perry
The song Firework includes many metaphors, for example as shown in the lyric the term "Baby you're a firework" doesn't literally mean the person is a firework it's a metaphor meaning someone unique, and an individual that is capable of many things. Similes are also included within this song. For example, "Like a house of cards, one blow from caving in" The lyrics are comparing the "paper thin" feeling to being so light and thin, that it could blow away like a house of cards. Many forms of poetic devices are used within songs that we may or may not realize. Technically all music and songs with words are forms of poetry.
“In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence”
“The Sounds of Silence” - Simon and Garfunkel
At glance this set of lyrics made little sense to me, but the more I read over it the more I could make something of them. Simon and Garfunkel used a lot of imagery. In the line, “Narrow streets of cobblestone”, for example, it is really easy to picture cobblestone roads that are narrow. They also used personification to describe a dream as restless, something that a dream cannot actually be. Personification was also used to describe the light “that split the night.” All of the personification in the song is what makes this song hard to understand, but when reading each line more than once, it is easier to comprehend.
"Loving him was like driving a new Maserati down a dead end street. Faster than the wind, passionate as sin, ending so suddenly." - Taylor Swift's "Red."
This song represents a boy and how being in a relationship with him is like. It's so fantastic and you love it but it ends at the last moment you expect it. There are many similes throughout the same song. Even the intro starts out with one.
Unwritten- Natasha Bedingfield
I am unwritten
Can't read my mind
I'm undefined
I'm just beginning
The pen's in my hand
Ending unplanned
Staring at the blank page before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find
Reaching for something in the distance
So close you can almost taste it
Release your inhibitions
Feel the rain on your skin
No one else can feel it for you
Only you can let it in
No one else, no one else
Can speak the words on your lips
Drench yourself in words unspoken
Live your life with arms wide open
Today is where your book begins
The rest is still unwritten
This song displays many poetry techniques and connections. This song first uses a personification. "Drench yourself in words unspoken." You can't actually drench yourself in words but the use of a personifaction allows yourself to be able to drench yourself in words. This song also uses lots of descriptive language/ imagery so it's really easy to imagine these lyrics and picture what is happening. The song Unwritten uses multiple poetry devices which makes the song much better and very easy to picture and understand.
"Honey, you're familiar like my mirror years ago
Idealism sits in prison, chivalry fell on its sword
Innocence died screaming, honey, ask me I should know
I slithered here from Eden just to sit outside your door"
From Eden - Hozier
This song uses many poetic devices including personification, imagery, and similes. The use of simile reveals itself in the first line of this excerpt with the presence of like, "Honey, you're familiar like my mirror years ago". Personification and imagery show up hand in hand in the following lines, "Idealism sits in prison, chivalry fell on its sword/Innocence died screaming" where the artist applies human characteristics to the terms "idealism", "chivalry", and "innocence" which also help paint a picture in our mind of what happens to the figurative terms. Also the artist uses a unique poetic device where they give a human, animal qualities as shown in the last line "I slithered here from Eden just to sit outside your door". These literary devices help us to understand the song and paint a vivid image in our minds of what the artist feels.
Isn't it strange how a life can be changed
In the flicker of the sweetest smile
We were married in spring
You know I wouldn't change a thing
Without that innocent kiss, what a life I'd have missed
If you'd not took a chance on a little romance
When I wasn't expecting that
Time doesn't take long, three kids up and gone
I wasn't expecting that
When the nurses they came, said it's come back again
I wasn't expecting that
Then you closed your eyes, you took my heart by surprise
I wasn't expecting that
-Jamie Lawson
Throughout the song, there are examples of rhyming and repetition. An example of this would be the constant line, “I wasn’t expecting that”. An example of rhyming would be, “...we were married in spring, you know I wouldn’t change a thing...”. Another thing that I noticed that connected to poetry was that it tells a story. In the song, it tells a story of how two people fell in love and their life after that, including her return of cancer. The poetry terms that connect to this are rhyming and allegory.
“Sometimes before it gets better the darkness gets bigger. The person that you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger.” -Fall Out Boy, “Miss Missing You.” One poetry term that this exhibits is rhyme, because bigger and trigger have the same ending sound. Another poetry literary device that I found was connotation because it is saying the darkness gets bigger when typically we use darker or lighter to describe darkness. This could also work for figure of speech. This song could also be lyric poem because it has an emotional feel to it. Overall, I like this quote because it is so true about life and who you trust.
All that I do is a shadow of you
And the light you make
I'm turning my face away from the shade
Swaying on cue, I'll be mimicking you
And the way you shake
You're a difficult love, I'm a narrow escape
This song is called "Gold" by Penny and Sparrow and is one of my favorite songs. This song really relates to a poem in my point of view. First, I notice some rhyming. After the longer verse, the shorter verses behind them rhyme and go together. I also feel like imagery is used to really deeply describe how the person doesn't feel good enough among this other person. Like he/she is always in shadow of their greatness. The tone/mood of this poem seems to feel dark and sad as the person doesn't feel good enough. This also generates a theme that this person barely makes the escape of being loved by this "higher" up person. This verse really has a lot of depth and meaning inside hidden and really gives you an idea of the true theme and meaning of the song.
“I thought that I've been hurt before
But no one's ever left me quite this sore
Your words cut deeper than a knife
Now I need someone to breathe me back to life
Got a feeling that I'm going under
But I know that I'll make it out alive
If I quit calling you my lover
Move on
You watch me bleed until I can't breathe
I'm shaking falling onto my knees
And now that I'm without your kisses
I'll be needing stitches
I'm tripping over myself
I'm aching begging you to come help
And now that I'm without your kisses
I'll be needing stitches”
Stitches -Shawn Mendes
What I noticed in the song “Stitches”, is that there are many moments which contains rhyming and that holds metaphors as well. For example, the rhyme pattern in the first stanza goes AABB. However, throughout the course of the song, there are forced rhymes like ‘under’ and ‘lover’ because they both end in ‘er’ making them sound alike. Finally, a metaphor embedded into this song is, “Your words cut deeper than a knife,” which compares physical phrases being said hurt far worse than being stabbed with a knife.
I knew I loved you then
But you'd never know
'Cause I played it cool when I was scared of letting go
I knew I needed you
But I never showed
But I wanna stay with you
Until we're grey and old
"say you won't let go" by James Arthur has a lot of poetic elements such as rhyming and rhythm because the ends of certain lines rhyme with others and it sort of has to have rhythm because its a song. Also it has a chorus which is a refrain.
“All the lights will guide the way
If you get to hear me now
All the fears will fade away
If you get to hear me now
If you get to hear me now
If you get to hear me now
Leave excuses aside
Speak out your mind, oh
And don't let in slide
You're not always right, no
Things aren't easy
So just you believe me now
Don't learn the hard way
Just let me show you how”
“Hear Me Now” by Alok is made up mostly of Quatrains. Every other line rhymes in the stanzas, which creates good rhythm. The line “if you hear me now” is a refrain because it is repeated many times.
And I, am feeling so small
It was over my head
I know nothing at all
And I will stumble and fall
I'm still learning to live
Just starting to crawl
Say Something I’m giving up on you
I’m sorry that I couldn’t get to you
Anywhere, I would’ve followed you
Say something I’m giving up on you.
- Great BIg World & Christina Aguilera “Say Something”
This relates to the poetry that we are learning because of the rhyming and rhythm. It could also be called a lyrical poem. On the verses the 1st and 3rd line kind of rhyme and in the chorus each line ends with you.
If you ever need someone to cry to
If you ever need someone to hold you
I will be there
Standing by your side
These lyrics are from I Will Be There by Odessa, and the form of poetry they show is elegy and ballad. Elegy is a poem that is sad, these lyrics can be happy but they also can be sad. The person is telling another person that he will always be there for her. This show emotion which can be sad. Ballad is a poem that is narrating another story, this is shown in these lyrics because he is telling a story about how he will always be there for the other person.
I've been watching you for some time
Can't stop staring at those ocean eyes
Burning cities and napalm skies
Fifteen flares inside those ocean eyes
Your ocean eyes
No fair
You really know how to make me cry
When you give me those ocean eyes
I'm scared
I've never fallen from quite this high
Falling into your ocean eyes
Those ocean eyes
I've been walking through a world gone blind
Can't stop thinking of your time and life
Careful creature made friends with time
You left her lonely with a diamond mine
And those ocean eyes
-Ocean Eyes by Billie Eilish
In ocean eyes by Billie Eilish, the name by itself is a metaphor. Ocean eyes probably means sad or upset eyes. There is also personification like: “I’ve been walking through a world gone blind.” Also, the name itself is a metaphor. Another metaphor is “ I’ve never fallen from quite this high, falling into your ocean eyes.
"You could beat the world
You could beat the war
You could talk to God, go banging on his door
You can throw your hands up
You can beat the clock
You can move a mountain
You can break rocks
You can be a master
Don't wait for luck
Dedicate yourself and you gon' find yourself
Standing in the hall of fame (yeah)
And the world's gonna know your name (yeah)
'Cause you burn with the brightest flame (yeah)
And the world's gonna know your name (yeah)
And you'll be on the walls of the hall of fame"
Hall of Fame- The Script
What I noticed in the song "Hall of Fame" were lots of rhyming patterns. For example, in the first verse it went ABB, then in the second verse it goes ABCBDBEBF, and the third verse all the ending words rhymed.
Hear Me by Imagine Dragons
Maybe if I fall asleep, I won't breathe right
Maybe if I leave tonight, I won't come back
I said it before, I won't say it again
Love is a game to you, it's not pretend
Maybe if I fall asleep, I won't breathe right
Can nobody hear me?
I got a lot that's on my mind
I cannot breathe
Can you hear it, too?
There are lots of poetic devices in this song. There is some rhyming, for example, the words again and pretend could be considered a rhyme. Another clearly displayed poetic device would be repetition. The line "maybe if I fall asleep, I won't breathe right" is repeated in this song.
She just wants to be beautiful
She goes unnoticed, she knows no limits
She craves attention, she praises an image
She prays to be sculpted by the sculptor
Oh, she don't see the light that's shining
Deeper than the eyes can find it
Maybe we have made her blind
So she tries to cover up her pain and cut her woes away
'Cause cover girls don't cry after their face is made
But there's a hope that's waiting for you in the dark
You should know you're beautiful just the way you are
And you don't have to change a thing, the world could change its heart
No scars to your beautiful, we're stars and we're beautiful( alessia clara)
Theres a lot of poetic devices used in this poem with tons of metaphors, and uses imagery showing the meaning of the song. Also theirs a lot of rhyming she uses in the stanzas she uses and it isn´t so free verse. The tone is motivating but at the same time its really sad how in the first verse she just describes how girls think about themselves.
"I like to stick to walls
Deserving conversations and lifting them when they fall
I am a fire escape, my spine's made of iron
My heart pumps that old red paint
Save yourself, save yourself, yourself
Save yourself, save yourself
I see the seasons change
And all the young faces come and replace the dying ones
Sit out on Lexington and Vine
And all the pimps and prostitutes wave you down at stopping signs"
These lyrics show personification and rhyme. There's also tons of metaphors, and uses of imagery showing the meaning of the song. The personifications is throughout the entire song, it is the song practically.The tone of the song is kinda sad but observant due to it being alone and saving yourself from the fires. Fire escape by Foster The People
But there's a hope that's waiting for you in the dark
You should know you're beautiful just the way you are
And you don't have to change a thing
The world could change its heart
No scars to your beautiful, we're stars and we're beautiful
Oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh
And you don't have to change a thing
The world could change its heart
No scars to your beautiful, we're stars and we're beautiful
These lyrics show that beauty is deeper than people can see someone could be super unattractive but have the sweetest heart. the poetic side of this song is there are metaphors and smilies and many other devices shown here to get the point across.
My daddy says that life comes at you fast
We all like blades of grass
We come to prime and in time we just wither away
These lines show simile when she says "we are LIKE blades of grass", and then she continues to compare herself to a blade of grass.
you call me out upon the waters the great unknown where feet may fail your grace en bounds and fear surrounds me your saveren hands will be my guide.
this is kinda a metaphor i guess its saying something but its not like realistic because you cant walk on water?
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