Thursday, January 5, 2012
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 1-06-2012 by 2:30p.m.)
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"Their words, mostly noises/Ghosts with just voices/Your words in my memory/Are like music to me" Set The Fire To The Third Bar by Snow Patrol featuring Martha Wainwright. These lyrics contain a simile in them between the words in her memories of him and music. Another place where a poetry term is used in this song is a metaphor in the lines "Your soft skin is weeping/A joy you can't keep in". The metaphor is between skin and weeping.
"She acts like summer and walks like rain/ Reminds me that there's a time to change/ Since her return from her stay on the moon/ she listens like spring and she talks like June" Drops of Jupiter by Train. Music is a great way to take poetry and apply it to something fun, where people are free to interpret it however they like. This song is probably the most poetic song I know, just look at the title. That is personification right there. But these four verses I selected from the first "stanza" of the song show the best similes of the whole song. What I picture form those similes is a happy, breezy, radiant woman who sees the best out of life and what it has to offer, and she's spreading that effect on the people around her.
"Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today..."
John Lennons, Imagine has lots of incongruity to it. I believe it's a free verse and " Imagine all the people" is a refrain. It has lots of symbolism. It's very opinionated and I believe try and sky is a couplet/rhyme. John Lennon is inspirational and poetic. He really does make me imagine what it would be like, so it has lots of imagery and perspective. It makes me feel hopeful and passionate. John Lennon is a true musician and poet.
"And I will hold on hope
And I won't let you choke
On the noose around your neck
And I'll find strength in pain
And I will change my ways
I'll know my name as it's called again" The Cave by Mumford and Sons
This song is related to poetry becuase it has a metaphore in it. THe line I wont let you choke on the noose around your neck implies all of his sorrows and bad stories in life are kind of holding him back, and he won;t let him choke on all of the bad things that happend.
Music and poetry are very simlar. In my mind, the only difference that I see is that music is generaly longer and it has a beat or tempo. One of my favorite songs is " were the side walk ends" by George Strait. I am not really into country music but I like this song because it really does make sense to me. I see a metaphore in this song because the verse, " were the side walk ends" is another way of saying, when you go down, just get back up and brush it all off. I have had a lot of moments in my life that I have fell really hard, (speaking metaphoricly) and it take so much effort to brush it off and move on. But it is so hard and you just physically cant do it. All you have to do is just be strong and look at the silver lining and everyone eventually comes around and you will always get back up.
"Sunday morning, rain is falling
Steal some covers, share some skin
Clouds are shrouding us in moments unforgettable You twist to fit the mold that I am in" Sunday Morning by Maroon 5. This song exhibits poetry through imagery. I can see the rain, and I can feel the comfort through their lyrics.
When you listen to music, you are really just hearing poetry with a melody. In the song What Makes You Beautiful by One Direction, he sings "Baby, you light up my world like no body else". This is personification because a person can't light up the entire world.
"I let it fall my heart/My hands they're strong, but my knees are far too weak/I set fire to the rain" Set fire to the rain by Adele. Music is on of the most populer ways to share artists personal feelings in third person. This is one poetic songs I know. The title of the song is "Set fire to the rain" this would be a metaphor. The song is realting to how she was torn down and having trouble getting where she wants to be. And how people in her life have hurt her.
"There's a wild, wild whisper
Blowing in the wind
Calling out my name like a long lost friend" American Honey by Lady Antebellum has a lot personification in it. It says that a whisper is blowing in the wind, but that can not really happen. Music lyrics have a lot of poetry if you just look into it.
"I guess you really did it this time
Left yourself in your warpath
Lost your balance on a tightrope
Lost your mind tryin' to get it back
Wasn't it easier in your lunchbox days?
Always a bigger bed to crawl into."
This quote of innocent by Taylor Swift resembles poetry because it uses a metaphor saying losing balance on a tightrope. It is meaning something happened in your relationship you had with the person and things got a little shook up and lost your balance.
"A drop in the ocean,
A change in the weather,
I was praying that you and me might end up together.
It's like wishing for rain as I stand in the desert,
But I'm holding you closer than most,
'Cause you are my heaven."
The corus of the song "A Drop in the Ocean" by Ron Pope has a similie in it when it talks about wishing for rain in the desert. When lyrics are written they really are all poems with a melody behind them.
"Peer over the edge
Can you see me?
Rivulets flow from your eyes
Paint runs from your mouth like a waterfall
And your lungs crystallize.”
~The Tip of the Iceberg by Owl City
“Where’d you go
Where’s your home
How’d you end up
All alone?
Can you hear me now?
There’s no light
There’s no sound
Hard to breathe when you’re underground
Can you hear me now?
Hear me now.”~Hear Me Now by Hollywood Undead
Both of these songs are very powerful to me. The latter is an entire poem in itself, with strong lyrics and many underlying meanings. It could be about various things, judging on your perspective, such as being lost, being found, or simply reaching out to someone. The artist of the former song, The Tip of the Iceberg, is known to have rather mismatched lyrics, that can originally not make much sense, but if you look for a deeper meaning, it can be found. Such as the lyrics from another one of his songs, “Don’t remind me that some days I’m the windshield and other days im just a lucky bug. As cold iron rails leave old mossy trails through the country side.” They at first may have a shallow meaning, but if you listen further into the song, there is a duet with a woman who quite clearly is having the conversation with the singer. It is about falling in love and not wanting to get hurt.
“It’s only half past the point of no return
the tip of the iceberg the sun before the burn.
The thunder before the lightning
The breath before the phrase,
Have you ever felt this way?” -Glitter in the Air by Pink
I took this quote from not only my favorite song but also one that I find incredibly poetic, Glitter in the Air by Pink. This particular stanza I find is very metaphorical. I think it means that no matter how far away you seem from something you are striving for there is so much left of you incredible journey that even though it seems intimidating and you occasionally feel lost for once you are so close you can taste it, it will all begin to be worth it.
(Battle-scarred shogun, explosion when my pen hits
tremendous, ultra-violet shine blind forensics)
-Inspectah Deck -Wu Tang Clan-
This verse in a song by the Wu Tang Clan is genius. This is the type of poetry that I like and sometimes try to write myself. Wu Tang Clan likes to showoff how good they are at writing and putting together ideas in different ways that nobody else can match. They rhyme in different ways that can perfectly flow with a song.
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