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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There are many songs with poetic devices out there. One of them is Fool's Gold by Fitz and the Tantrums. There are many examples throughout the song, but one that stood out to me was the simile "Them silver lines they cut like blades of glass". This simile is comparing silver lines and blades of grass. Another example is "fools gold shines like words that make us cry". This simile is comparing fools gold to harmful words. There are many songs that are poetic, but this one stood out the most.
The song I chose was Skyscraper by Demi Lovato. The first poetic device found in the song is the line "Skies are crying". This is personification which is saying that it is raining. A simile in the song is in the lyrics "Like I'm made of glass
Like I'm made of paper
Go on and try to tear me down
I will be rising from the ground
Like a skyscraper
Like a skyscraper". The meaning behind this is she is weak and fragile but once she goes on and says "I will be rising from the ground like a skyscraper", she is saying that she will overcome whatever is holding her back and rise above it. A metaphor in the poem is hidden in the phrase "All my windows still are broken
But I'm standing on my feet". This is saying that she may not have fully recovered but she is going to fight. The last piece of a poetic form is symbolism. "Go run, run, run
Yeah, it's a long way down
But I am closer to the clouds up here" She is basically telling her problems to go down where the sinners go and she is going to heaven where she can be happy. She was dealing with depression when she wrote this song so that is who she is talking to throughout it.
"I read you like a letter" Song: Still Counting, Artist: Volbeat. The poetic displayed in this line is a simile, as it uses the word "like" to sow the ease with which the singer can understand whomever.
The poetic device that I saw was in the son "stolen dance". Throughout the story they use allusion to the fact that there is a stolen dance without saying it such as "I want you by my side" and "but they brought you away from me" both of these suggest that they are dancing and that the author got a dance stolen.
"In the breathless hush of 4 a.m.
In the dark sits a sad cliche
Cloaked in the navy blue of slowly fading stars"
Jellyfish - Glutton Of Sympathy
These clever lyrics displays personification by using the word cliche instead of person which, if taken literally, it would be a whole other meaning than just a cliched sad person. I also love how they described dawn as a blue cloak of fading stars. These lyrics always stand out to me when I hear this song and will always be one of my favorite.
His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy, There's vomit on his sweater already, mom's spaghetti, He's nervous. The line "arms are heavy" is a personification because he is giving arms human like characteristics.
"If you didn't wanna talk to me outside your concert
you didn't have to, but you coulda signed an autograph for Matthew
That's my little brother man, he's only six years old
We waited in the blistering cold for you,
four hours and you just said, "No."."- Stan by Eminem, when he mentions that he waited in the blistering cold in waiting for him just see someone in the cold is a extreme exaggeration. which is also a hyperbole.
My favorite song line is
I want to raise my hands in the air saying aaaa ooohhh, (song name=Dynamite, name of artist=)
The poetic term of the line of the song or lyric is that the line/lyric rhymes and shows expression and has a rhythm to it that shows even more expression.
One of my favorite song lyrics in the the song Right Above it by Lil Wayne. "Life is a beach in just playing the the sand." I like this because it is saying that in the world you can either do stuff that you don't like and are hard or you can "Play in the sand" and enjoy what you do and have fun with it. This is a metaphor saying that life is a beach which really its not a beach at all.
If you listen to the lyrics of songs you can find many poetic devices. The first one that came to mind was in Katy Perry's firework.
" Do you ever feel like a plastic bag..."
this is a smilie because it compares to things using the words like or as.
"Looking at the stars like they finna talk back" Beware-Big Sean. this demonstrates personification becaue when he says the stars are going to take balk he is implying that they can talk when they can not.
In the song "Nothing" by Lewis Watson, he sings, And I'd climb 1000 mountains
Just to meet you at the summit
Well let me ask you something
Would you climb too
This is an extreme exaggeration. This is seen a lot in poems to give greater details and stronger points.
In many of the songs today there are many poetic terms in them. there are many of these in songs like metaphors, similes and many more.
The song that I chose was "American Pie" by: DOn Mclean. The lyrics go like this
"A long, long time ago
I can still remember how that music used to make me smile
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make those people dance
And maybe they'd be happy for a while
But February made me shiver
With every paper I'd deliver
Bad news on the doorstep
I couldn't take one more step"
I believe this song is representing a WWII Veteran who is telling the families of dead soldiers and is considering telling them that their son was ok and is coming home to make them happy.
I lived by One Republic. Has a feel of of poetry to it with the meaning of the song being based on a young mans life. And how he has to survive with a rare disease. Lyrics: I did it all I owned every second that this world could give... yah with every broken bone I swear I lived.
I feel like that has a very deep meaning.
In the song Ultra-violence by Lana Del Rey, she uses a simile “he used to call me poison, like i was poison ivy” and this relates to the simile in our study of poetry. This is because it does not directly state that one thing is another but uses the word “like” or “as” to relate the two subjects.
I have many favorite songs and all of them have poetic terms in them.
like the line in this song. "I'm waking up, like ash and dust.." That is a simile.
And she feels like Carolina
Looks like California
Shining like those New York lights on Broadway that line from a song called parmalee fits very well with similies because it has two similies right in the song
“Get Up Stand Up” Artist Bob Marley Written by Bob Marley and Peter Tosh
A-It's not all that glitters is gold;
A-'Alf the story has never been told:
Rhyme Scheme
Anaphora
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!
The song that I listen to is by the Pentatonix and they use similes and personification. Also this relates to our unit because it talks about poetry and it has two topics.
Barenaked Ladies', "One Week"
Chickity China The Chinese Chicken
It has alliteration of the letter C
Riptide by Vance Joy says "I'm caught in a riptide" which is a metaphor. A metaphor is comparing two objects together to make a visual. The lyrics say I'm caught in a riptide because they're normal life is changing and its not how they expected it to be.
Music is closely related to poetry and connects in many ways. On song is "Like A Drum," by Guy Sebastian which has a simile in the title and is repeated in the song itself. A simile is used in poetry and in song lyrics to make like terms with two or more objects.
"I hope you're dancing in the sky."
I choose this line from my favorite song named dancing in the sky.It is talking about people who passed away and how they are angels dancing in the sky.The peace of poetry is personification because its more of a figure of speech or it exaggerates of something that we can do here on earth.
Elvis Presley song "Hound Dog" has the lyrics.
'You ain't nothin but a hound dog
Cryin all the time'
this shows metaphor because it makes a comparison between a person and a hound dog
I really like the song "All I want is you" by Barry Louis because it talks about loving somebody so much that they would be inanimate objects just to be around that person more often.
"If I was a flower growing wild and free
All I'd want is you to be my sweet honey bee.
And if I was a tree growing tall and green
All I'd want is you to shade me and be my leaves
If I was a flower growing wild and free
All I'd want is you to be my sweet honey bee.
And if I was a tree growing tall and green
All I'd want is you to shade me and be my leaves
All I want is you, will you be my bride
Take me by the hand and stand by my side
All I want is you, will you stay with me?
Hold me in your arms and sway me like the sea.
If you were a river in the mountains tall,
The rumble of your water would be my call.
If you were the winter, I know I'd be the snow
Just as long as you were with me, when the cold winds blow.
All I want is you, will you be my bride
Take me by the hand and stand by my side
All I want is you, will you stay with me?
Hold me in your arms and sway me like the sea.
If you were a wink, I'd be a nod
If you were a seed, well I'd be a pod.
If you were the floor, I'd wanna be the rug
And if you were a kiss, I know I'd be a hug
All I want is you, will you be my bride
Take me by the hand and stand by my side
All I want is you, will you stay with me?
Hold me in your arms and sway me like the sea.
If you were the wood, I'd be the fire.
If you were the love, I'd be the desire.
If you were a castle, I'd be your moat,
And if you were an ocean, I'd learn to float.
All I want is you, will you be my bride
Take me by the hand and stand by my side
All I want is you, will you stay with me?
Hold me in your arms and sway me like the sea.
If I was a flower growing wild and free
All I'd want is you to be my sweet honey bee.
And if I was a tree growing tall and green
All I'd want is you to shade me and be my leaves
If I was a flower growing wild and free
All I'd want is you to be my sweet honey bee.
And if I was a tree growing tall and green
All I'd want is you to shade me and be my leaves
All I want is you, will you be my bride
Take me by the hand and stand by my side
All I want is you, will you stay with me?
Hold me in your arms and sway me like the sea.
If you were a river in the mountains tall,
The rumble of your water would be my call.
If you were the winter, I know I'd be the snow
Just as long as you were with me, when the cold winds blow.
All I want is you, will you be my bride
Take me by the hand and stand by my side
All I want is you, will you stay with me?
Hold me in your arms and sway me like the sea.
If you were a wink, I'd be a nod
If you were a seed, well I'd be a pod.
If you were the floor, I'd wanna be the rug
And if you were a kiss, I know I'd be a hug
All I want is you, will you be my bride
Take me by the hand and stand by my side
All I want is you, will you stay with me?
Hold me in your arms and sway me like the sea.
If you were the wood, I'd be the fire.
If you were the love, I'd be the desire.
If you were a castle, I'd be your moat,
And if you were an ocean, I'd learn to float.
All I want is you, will you be my bride
Take me by the hand and stand by my side
All I want is you, will you stay with me?
Hold me in your arms and sway me like the sea."
in the song "Firework" by Katy Perry she uses smilies in this part of the song "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?" she compares the audience to a house of cards as if they are feeling depressed and fragile.
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