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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"Gravedigger, When you dig my grave, Could you make it shallow, So that I can feel the rain, Gravedigger", Grave digger, song by Dave Matthews. This song has a lot of symbolism, because when the author asked "When you dig my grave could you make it shallow so that I can feel the ran" is a symbol for "When I die stay close to me so I can feel your love". If that makes any sense. Lol.
He also has repetition, when he repeats gravedigger. I believe this is a symbol of inevitable death.
"For the first time in forever, there'll be music, there'll be light. For the first time in forever, I'll be dancing through the night." (For the First Time Idina Menzel, Kristen Bell)
In these lyrics is a great example of alliteration. In, "For the First time in Forever," all the F's are capitalized and give the song great flow and lyrics that are easily memorized.
The song Let it be by the Beatles has a line that says "Whisper words of wisdom, let it be." This song has alliteration. Alliteration is the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words. As in the lyric three of the words start with w. This song has very good alliteration because it repeats the same letter in three consecutive words.There are many different songs that have alliteration or any other type of poetry in them. Most songs are very similar to poems. I chose this song because it has good alliteration and a good message it is connected to poetry.
The Giving Tree by the Plain White T's shows multiple uses of poetic techniques. For example through out the song they sing from the perspective of the giving tree it's self. The song goes, "If all you wanted was love; Why would you use me up; Cut me down, build a boat, and sail away; When all I wanted to be was your giving tree; Settle down, build a home, and make you happy?" Although the listeners can see that the author only means to show how much he loved this person this is a use of personification. Listeners know that this is personification because a tree is incapable of loving someone. So although the band gets their point across with a closer look we can see how they used poetic techniques to enhance their song.
(The song Bad Blood by Taylor Swift) And, baby, now we’ve got bad blood. This shows alliteration because it tells the story of a friendship gone wrong. The b sound adds to the quality of the song. This shows her pain and anger she feels.
Vindicated by Dashboard Confessional portrays many uses of poetic techniques throughout the song. But the beginning of the song shows meaning. The beginning goes like,"Hope dangles on a string like a slow spinning redemption;Winding in and winding out, the shine of it has caught my eye;And roped me in, so mesmerizing and so hypnotizing I am captivated, I am." This song uses a simile in the beginning to symbolize that there is still small hope for redemption to change something.
One of my favorite song lines that exhibits one of my studied poetry terms is “Who Let the Dogs Out” by The Baha Men because it exhibits the poetry term Onomonopia. It does this by saying, “Who let the dogs out? Woof, woof, woof, woof!” This exhibits the poetry term Onomatopoeia because an Onomatopoeia is a form of word that is from a sound associated with that word. When the song says woof, the sound is associated with the sound of the dogs that are being let out in that song.
In the song Feel Again, by OneRepublic, the singer uses multiple similes and metaphors to display his feelings. One of these similes are in the words, "Heart still beating but it's not working; It's like a million dollar phone that you just can't ring." In these sentences, the artist compares his love to malfunctioning phone. In reality, these two things are drastically different, but when you look deeper into each of them, you realize that they are very similar
"You know I'm not one to break promises. I don't wanna hurt you but I need to breathe. At the end of it all, you're still my best friend. But there is something inside that I need to release." This song is called Too Close by Alex Clare. This song can relate to poetry because most poets get there feelings out and express them to people through pieces of writing. Clare speaks out how he doesn't want to hurt the relationship and still wants to be friends. It would be understandable as to why that would be hard to do in person, so he sings it to this person through his song lyrics.
The song "Firework" by Katy Perry exhibits the poetic term of a simile when the lyrics say, "Do you ever feel like a plastic bag, Drifting through the wind, wanting to start again?". This piece of music asks the listener to compare themselves to a plastic bag and the description afterward can almost be considered imagery because of the way the song describes the plastic bag.
The song "Far Away" by Nickleback, exhibits the poetic term of Alliteration. In the lyric "This time, This place, Misused, Mistakes, Too Long, Too Late".The "th" sound is repeated throughout the song along with the hard t sound. This allows the song to flow better.
The song "Atlas" by Coldplay, has Alliteration in it. At the beginning of the song, the lyrics are "some saw the sun, some saw the smoke, some heard the gun, some bent the bow." An Alliteration is when all the words in a line all start with the same letter, and in this specific expample that letter is 'T.' The uses of poetic terms in songs like this make them sound neaty and better all together.
The song Drops of Jupiter by Train has a poetic term in its lyrics. “Can you imagine no first dance, freeze dried romance, five-hour phone conversation?” This lyric has alliteration. The alliteration all starts with the letter “f”. First, freeze, and five. Also this line has a rhyme in it, dance and romance.
The song Firework by Katy Perry has a metaphor within it. One of the lyrics within the song is, "Baby you're a firework". This sentence is a metaphor. Katy used the word firework as another way to say the person she was talking about was perfect.
The song “Firework” By Katy Perry, has many uses of vocabulary. In the beginning of the song Katy Perry uses a simile by saying “do u ever feel like a plastic bag.” When she says this it resembles a simile because in the sentence it used like, and or as, but in this case the song is using like. When she continues out through the song, the next piece is “drifting through the wind waiting to start again.” This is kinda showing us a visual,that how the plastic bag it’s acting. So basically this part of the song would resemble imaginary because of what it’s showing us.
The song "Wrecking Ball" by Miley Cyrus has the use of a simile. In her song she repeatedly uses the line, "I came in like a wrecking ball". Using the word like makes it a simile. She is not a wrecking ball but she is using to describe hence the use of "like".
In the song All Too Well by Taylor Swift, there is this one phrase that says, "...and I'm a crumpled up piece of paper lying here..." This phrase is a metaphor because Taylor Swift is not actually a crumpled up piece of paper. She is just planting this image in our heads that she's a lone, thinking and sad about something. The phrase it to cause the listener to feel her deep emotions. Therefore, it is a metaphor.
In the song FROOT by Marina and the Diamonds, both simile and metaphor are used. An example using both is the lyric, "Leave it too long I'll go rot/Like an apple you forgot". In the first line, Marina compares herself to rotting fruit that has been forgotten, and uses the same approach in the next line, but this time directly comparing the two using the word like.
"And I know I did damage,'Cause the look in your eyes is killing me," Kanye West, Runaway. This song uses personification, giving life and qualities to someone's eyes. They are described to be "killing" him, even though eyes are not capable of killing someone.
"Yeah, this world stay spinning fast just try not to lose your balance," Felly. This song uses a metaphor. He jokes that the earth spins too fast meaning that he needs a break or he will metaphorically lose his balance, even though the earth cannot spin fast enough to actually make you lose your balance.
" Loving him is like driving a new Maserati down a dead-end street", these lyrics are from Taylor Swift's song "Red". This lyric is using an example of a simile. Taylor is comparing loving a boy to driving a new, nice car down a smooth street, until it ends abruptly.
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