Thursday, January 9, 2020
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 Monday, January 13, 2020 by 3:40p.m.)
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"I’ll wait here, you’re crazy
Those vicious streets are filled with strays
You should’ve never gone to Hollywood
They find you, two time you
Say you’re the best they’ve ever seen
You should’ve never trusted Hollywood"
Lost In Hollywood by System Of A Down
These song lyrics can tie into the poetry term allegory. It's a statement on Hollywood and the music/movie industry, and it's very political. They first few lyrics "These streets are filled with strays" refers to all the people who 'never made it big' in Hollywood, and all the homeless people. "They find you, two time you" can be referred to music producers looking for bands/artists and how toxic they can be to people looking for a good start. The whole song goes on about the horrible and toxic traits of Hollywood.
“So I put my hands up they’re playing my song and the butterflies fly away…My tummy's turnin' and I'm feelin' kinda home sick... ” Miley Cyrus Party in the USA
This section of lyrics has two uses poetic devices including the following:
1) “And the butterflies fly away” is an idiom, or a phrase whose figurative meaning is different than the literal meaning. The lyrics say that butterflies are flying, but it really represents the butterflies, or nerves, in the singer’s stomach left, or flew away, leaving her no longer nervous.
2) ““My tummy’s turnin’” is personification, because a stomach isn’t alive and can’t literally turn around.
Cardi B – Money
"Sweet like a honey bun, spit like a Tommy gun"
This song lyric is an example of a simile. This song brings out my inner gangster.
'Firework' by Katie Perry has the lyrics "Cause baby you're a firework" shows that is a metaphor, It also says "Do you ever feel like a plastic bag" which shows personification because it's giving a plastic bag seem human like.
Diamonds- Rihanna
1) There is also an example of rhyme scheme-"Feel the warmth, we'll never die
We're like diamonds in the sky
2)an example of a simile-"Shine bright like a diamond"
3)An example of personification-"I saw the life inside your eyes"
¨Another plane
Another train
Another bottle in the brain
Another girl
Another fight
Another drive all night.¨- no sleep till Brooklyn, beasty boys
These lyrics uses a rhyme scheme, a catalog order with the beginning word, and also has Anaphora, because of the same word on each start of the line.
1. “You know a dream is like a river” -simile
2. “Like a bird upon the wind” -imagery
3. “So don’t you sit upon the shoreline and say you’re satisfied, choose to chance the rapids, and dare to dance that tide” -alliteration
4. “A dreamer’s just a vessel” -metaphor
The River by Garth Brooks
"I don't need a king
I've got my crown
Don't need a hero
To lift me off the ground
I built this heart
It's beating loud
Won't let no bad blood
Ever bring us down"
"Born to be Brave" by HSMTMTS
The Sentence "Won't let no bad blood, ever bring us down" is an example of metonymy, while the words describing the heart "It's beating loud" show onomatopoeia.
Life is a Highway by Rascal Flatts
"Life is a highway I wanna ride it all night long"
This song uses the literary device, simile, to explain that life is a long exciting road that is full of surprises.
-Julia Dunn
"Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality
Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
Because I'm easy come, easy go, little high, little low
Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me" Bohemian Rhapsody- Queen
It shows alliteration, and rhyming.
"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," Let Her Go by the Passengers. The song shows anaphora with the word only.
Fabulous by Ashley Tisdale
"It's out with the old and in with the new
Goodbye clouds of gray, hello skies of blue
A dip in the pool, a trip to the spa
Endless days in my chaise
The whole world according to moi
Iced tea imported from England
Lifeguards imported from Spain
Towels imported from Turkey
And turkey imported from Maine
We're gonna relax and renew
You go do
She want fabulous, that is my simple request
All things fabulous, bigger and better and best
She need something inspiring to help me get along
She need a little fabulous, is that so wrong?"
1.Rhyme- "It's out with the old and in with the new
Goodbye clouds of gray, hello skies of blue"
2. repetition- "she wants fabulous...all things fabulous...she needs a little fabulous"
3. imagery-"clouds of grey, skies of blue"
"We walk, we fly, we run,
better in my mind, I become,
Leave the past behind,
to another place, that we find
…
Thunder in our hearts,
Courage in our eyes,
We're standing tall,
Follow you my friend, to the very end,
We'll never fall..."
The lyrics from Your Light by Will Morton and Julie Wemyss have a tendency to rhyme. By doing which, the song’s motion is smooth and to the beat, but along with that, the rhymed words create imagery. When I hear the lyrics and the music, I think of a time of calm after an adventure.
"In my eyes, nothing feels better than this" -Better by Khalid
This sort of exhibits a metaphor or a comparison, and in some cases, can represent a hyperbole because of the strength of the statement based upon one's opinion. In addition to this, most songs by Khalid tend to have a rhyming pattern within the lyrics, which is another example of a literary device.
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