Poetry In music?
Please Quote One Of Your Favorite Song Lines Or Lyrics And Explain How It Exhibits At Least One Poetry Term? 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 Wednesday 2-04-2015 By 2:30p.m.)
posted by Greg T at Sunday, February 01, 2015
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"The gloves are off, the wisdom teeth are out
What you on about?
I feel it in my bones, I feel it in my bones
I'm stronger now, I'm ready for the house
Such a modest mouse,
I can't do it alone, I can't do it alone."
-Step by Vampire Weekend
This uses a combination of rhyme (out-about ; house-mouse) and repetition (I feel it in my bones ; I can't do it alone)
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall, Another Brick in the wall part 2 by Pink Floyd. This line of song is a metaphor. The song is talking about the education system in England at the time, and how everyone it getting molded into the same person. This song compares people to bricks. It simply states that everyone is just another brick in the wall, they aren’t personalized or unique they are all the same.
"Just a small town girl
Livin' in a lonely world
She took the midnight train
Goin' anywhere
Just a city boy
Born and raised in South Detroit
He took the midnight train
Goin' anywhere"
These are quotes from the song, "Don't stop Believin" by Journey. The lyrics use a theme of escaping there previous lives. Also the quote uses a sort of repetition to get the point across and sound good in the song. The song ultimately has a deeper meaning like many poems.
In Taylor Swifts "Blank Space" the lyrics, "Nice to meet you
Where you been?
I could show you incredible things
Magic, madness, heaven, sin
Saw you there and I thought oh my god
Look at that face, you look like my next mistake
Love's a game, wanna play" we see the deep meaning of love and how there are pros and cons to love but you have to beware of all the emotional baggage that comes with love and how you have to be careful but also how love is the greatest thing ever.
You wrote your name in invisible inc
For you were so afraid for what they might think
But the scares they left
They were loud and clear weren't they, weren't they
when its too much to bear memories erase. A disappearing act.
This song, Silhouettes, has repetition of the last phrase a lot. They do it all the time throughout the song. The song has rhyme schemes in the song mostly AABB. The feeling of the song is calming and it is against someone being self conscience.
Poetry is reflected and used in song lyrics quite often, and the example that I first thought of is in the song Oceans when it says "And there I find you in the mystery, in oceans deep my faith will stand." Personification is used when it says "my faith will stand." Personification is when an unreal object preforms something human-like. Faith is an idea that can't physically stand but it works well with the surrounding context, and signifys that faith will always be present in the darkness.
I used to rule the world
Seas would rise when I gave the word
Now in the morning I sleep alone
Sweep the streets I used to own
I used to roll the dice
Feel the fear in my enemy's eyes
Listen as the crowd would sing,
"Now the old king is dead! Long live the king!"
One minute I held the key
Next the walls were closed on me
And I discovered that my castles stand
Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand
Viva La Vida by Coldplay uses Rhyme at the end of each stanza. The repetition is the same throughout the song in the last words of each line.
My Favorite song currently ins Joywave -Tounges. The quote is "The palms are down, I'm welcomed back to town Sometimes i feel like they don't understand me I Hear their mouths making foreign sounds Sometimes i think they're all just speaking tongues." This line is a Metaphor for how he doesn't understand the people from where he's from.
One of my all time favorite songs is Must Have Been the Roses by the Grateful dead. I interpretted the song as a man singing about why he fell in love with a woman. The Grateful dead have many great songs but Must Have Been the Roses is definitely a favorite of mine.This song includes repetition of the line "...all I know is I could not leave here there."
"Boom, Clash and the lightning flashed well that's another story never mind any way at last the big day came...No don't take away the baby they shrieked and screeched but I did and I hid her where she will never be reached." Into the woods. This shows Onomonopia (or however it's spelled)
Running through the fire, running through the flame,
running through the hatred, pushing through the blame,
running through the hopelessness and shame,
revolution already underway.
-Revolution By John Butler Trio
These lyrics just say how much of a battle it is and how hard it is to start a revolution or make a change for the better.
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"Bang, bang from the closet walls,
The schoolhouse halls,
The shotgun's loaded.
Push me and I'll push back.
I'm done asking, I demand
From a nation under God,
I feel its love like a cattle prod.
I'm born free but still they hate.
I'm born me, no, I can't change."
-Make it Stop (September's Children) by Rise Against
This uses simile (love like a cattle prod), to show that they aren't actually being loved by America. Even though the country acts as though it's the greatest country on Earth and it loves everyone, many people are being abused for just being who they are. Most people like to just ignore that and go on believing that America is perfect. In fact, this class is a prime example of this idea, with its whole focus on the "American Dream" as if other countries can't have ideals like America does because America is better than anything else. The nationalist idea that we can have an "American Literature" class and a "World Literature" class because we think we should just shove everything that isn't American into a different class, but need a class solely for America, a relatively young country that got the majority of its ideas from other countries, is just crazy. Even in social studies, there's a class for just American history, one for all of Western history, and one for just the rest of the world. Even though American history should have much less to learn than the other two classes, as America became a country in 1776, while the rest of the world is much older. However, the American history class is the only class that's every day of the week because we're so obsessed with ourselves that we believe that there's more to learn in the 250 years that we've been around than there is in the thousands of years that the rest of the world has been around. Sorry if I went off on a bit of a tangent, but I felt this was something I needed to say, especially in this class.
"He was in a jam,
He's in a giant clam!"
-Rock Lobster by The B-52's
This is a pretty simple connection between poetry and music as these lyrics use end rhyme. The song has man other end rhymes throughout, and this is only on example.
"Chim chim-in-ey, chim chim-in-ey
Chim chim cher-ee!
A sweep is as lucky, as lucky can be" -Chim Chim Cher-ee, Mary Poppins
The beginning part of these lyrics features an alliteration.
"Let's swim to the moon,
Let's climb through the tide
Surrender to the waiting worlds
That lap against our side"
- Moonlight Drive by the Doors
Jim Morrison uses the symbolism of swimming to the moon as a way to describe reaching some sort of euphoric existentialism.
The "waiting worlds that lap against our side" is a metaphor for death and its inevitability. In order to be at peace with yourself, to reach that higher place mentioned previously, you must surrender yourself to the basic fact of life that death is impending and cannot be avoided.
"The sun's all also floating, you
As the atoms float in you
Don't you see that someone lives in you?
Everything you do is new
All you do is just for you
Once you've died all you've done goes with you"
-Lost in Soup by Juan Wauters uses the repetition of "you" throughout the song.
"And she is yelling at a bridesmaid
Somewhere back inside a room
Wearing a gown shaped like a pastry
And the organ starts to play
A song that sounds like a death march
She floats down the aisle
Like a pageant queen"
-Speak Now, Taylor Swift
The song lyrics here show three similes, about how a woman is stopping a wedding.
"No more stress, now I'm straight, now I get it, now I take, Time to think before I make mistakes just for my family's sake. That part of me left yesterday, the heart of me is strong today. No regrets I'm blessed t say the old me dead and gone away". T.I.- Dead and Gone
These lines use a combination of rhyme schemes. For example the lines "Now I'm straight-Now I take"
"If his love is an ocean we're all sinking"- David Crowder Band
My favorite song lyrics are a metaphor, because love is being compared to an ocean. The lyrics also use imagery. I picture a man being struck by a huge wave and it's powerful.
"Who's in bunker, who's in bunker?
Women and children first
Women and children first
Women and children
I'll laugh until my head comes off
I swallow till I burst
Until I burst"
This is the first verse of Radiohead's "Idioteque. It uses the poetic term of repetition and rhyme.
Cecilia and The Satellite by Andrew Mcmahon says,
"If I could fly
Then I would know
What life looks like from up above and down below
I'd keep you safe
I'd keep you dry
Don't be afraid Cecilia
I'm the satellite
And you're the sky."
This excerpt exemplifies poetry terms such as metaphors and a rhyme scheme. There are a couple of metaphors, comparing himself to a satellite and Cecilia to the sky.
"There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven.
When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for.
Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to heaven."
-Stairway to heaven by Led Zeppelin
These lyrics use repetition, and ambiguity.
"And there will always be stop and go and fast and slow. Action, Reaction sticks and stones and broken bones. Those for peace and those for war. And god bless these ones, not those ones. But these ones made times like these. And times like those, What will be will be. And so it goes."
--Times Like These by Jack Johnson
These song lyrics demonstrates the repetition of a word or phrase, because the phrase "these ones" and the phrase "those ones" are used throughout this small part of the song. This sort of adds a rhyming element to the song because the terms rhyme with each other. This adds a sort of playful dynamic to the song and I think that it makes it very catchy.
I really enjoy "Take me to Church" by Hozier.
"Take me to church,
I'll worship like a dog at the shrine of your lies.
I'll tell you my sins while you sharpen your knife."
I can definitely see those lyrics in some poetry. For example Edgar Allen Poe's poetry.
"Life's a jungle you might as well be a lion in it, or you don't exist in this world you're just dying in it."
-Fear by King Los
This uses rhyme (Lion in it, dying in it) Los is explaining how most people never go past there comfort zone, therefore never making a true difference or leaving behind a legacy.
"Fight fear for the selfish pain, it was worth it every time.
Hold still right before we crash 'cause we both know how it ends.
A clock ticks 'til it breaks your glass and I drown in you again."
Clarity By ZEDD
This shows poetry because she is singing about pain, but because pain is abstract, she is explaining it in a non abstract way. Like a crash, it is a not abstract idea because it had damage that you can usually see.
"Have you got colour in your cheeks?
Do you ever get that fear that you can't shift
The type that sticks around like something in your teeth?
Are there some aces up your sleeve?
Have you no idea that you're in deep?
I dreamt about you nearly every night this week
How many secrets can you keep?"
- Do I Wanna Know? Arctic Monkeys
In this particular song, the use of rhyme schemes is apparent. Although the beginning lyrics don't rhyme exactly perfect, the lyrics towards the end do rhyme which give the song a special and noticeable transition into the chorus.
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