Poetry In Music Too?
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 2-03-2016 By 2:30p.m.)
posted by Greg T at Sunday, January 31, 2016
20 Comments:
Let Her Go – Passenger
Rhyme scheme
Like most indie folk songs, it has strong poetic ties and uses turbid language to communicate that you never understand what you have, you never appreciate it, until it's gone.
Bad Blood - Taylor Swift
Alliteration
"Baby we got Bad Blood"
The "b" sound in "baby," "bad," and "blood" add to the quality of it. The "b" sound is nowhere near as girly as her other lyrics, and with the sound of the "b" you can hear the pain and anger she feels.
19 You and Me - Dan + Shay
Imagery
"Watchin' that blonde hair swing"
You can really see the lyrics and can see almost every lyric in the song.
"I hate everything about you" Greenday
It uses hateful words to show how deep the feelings are. It sets up a story or explanation of how and why they felt this way
"I hate everything about you" Greenday
It uses hateful words to show how deep the feelings are. It sets up a story or explanation of how and why they felt this way
His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy. -Eminem , lose yourself.
This song has rhyme in it. It uses this to have better rhythm and for it to flow better.
"He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger
And finally drank away her memory
Life is short but this time it was bigger
Than the strength he had to get up off his knees
We found him with his face down in the pillow
With a note that said I'll love her till I die
And when we buried him beneath the willow
The angels sang a whiskey lullaby"
These lyrics from Brad Paisley's song paint the picture of pain. It's a feeling everyone can relate to. Some of the lyrics are near rhyme and seems to flow smoothly.
"Yo its about that time. To bring forth the rhythm and rhyme. Strictly hip hop boy I ain't swinging this. Black white red and brown. It's such a good vibration". Marky Mark and the the funky bunch. I feel like it is really poetic in each sentence and that it really speaks to me
XO by Beyoncé
In the darkest night hour
I'll search through the crowd
your face is all that I see
I'll give you everything
Baby love me lights out
Baby love me lights out
You can turn my light down
In this verse, there is a repetition of lines, "Baby love me lights out" all through out the song. Also "You can turn my light down" is personification because qualities/actions of objects are given to humans.
"Diamonds on my piece and chain
looking like Mufasa
Look like Lion King
Drive a Sebring
Fifty thousand dollars
bought myself a wedding ring"
"Riff Raff-Dolce and Gabana"
It is figurative in the poem when the artist says "looking like Mufasa". He means that he is so iced out from all the diamonds he has that it represents Mufasa. Mufasa is a very majestic lion an he is the ruler of the wild.
"And weeks went by but felt like hours
Spring would lie in summer showers
In my hair were winter flowers
And weeks went by but felt like hours
Seasons multiplying powers
That I found in winter flowers"
Young by Vallis Alps uses poetic characteristics in it's rhyme and repetition. It repeats "And weeks went by but felt like hours" and "winter flowers". It also has rhyme scheme, each ending word rhymes with the last and the next.
"My friends don't walk, they run
Skinny dip in rabbit holes for fun
Popping, popping balloons with guns, getting high off helium
We paint white roses red,
Each shade from a different person's head
This dream, dream is a killer
Getting drunk with a blue caterpillar"
-Mad Hatter By Melanie Martinez
Martinez used ending rhyme to relate it to its more childish source "Alice in Wonderland" while using metaphors to explain what she's meaning.
First- Cold War Kids
"Flying like a cannonball, falling to the earth,
Heavy as a feather when you hit the dirt,
How am I the lucky one?, I do not deserve
To wait around forever when you were there first,
First you get hurt, then you feel sorry"
The similes, "Flying like a cannonball" and, "Heavy as a feather when you hit the dirt" are both good similes that make the lyric flow more naturally.
Say my name/cry me a river
"You told me you loved me
Why did you leave me, all alone
Now you tell me you need me
When you call me, on the phone
Girl I refuse, you must have me confused
With some other guy
Your bridges were burned, and now it's your turn
To cry"
In this song there are a lot of metaphors to represent other things
Make love and not war! 'Cause we don't need no trouble.
What we need is love (love)
To guide and protect us on. (on)
If you hope good down from above, (love)
Help the weak if you are strong now. (love)
The wise lyrics of Bob Marley exhibits poetry throughout the whole song, deeper meaning beneath what he says.
"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 Lennon uses a deep form of poetry in this song and many others.
Where is the love? - Black Eyed Peas
"People killin', people dyin'
Children hurt can you hear them cryin'?
Can you practice what you preach?
And would you turn the other cheek?
Father, Father, Father help us
Send us some guidance from above
'Cause people got me, got me questionin'
Where is the love? (Love)"
The rhyme and the lyrics both indicates the same thing as the world needs love.
Right In Two__TOOL
Monkey killing monkey killing monkey.
Over pieces of the ground.
Silly monkeys give them thumbs.
They make a club.
And beat their brother, down.
How they survive so misguided is a mystery.
Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability to lift an eye to heaven conscious of his fleeting time here.
This is definitely poetry in music because the meaning and truth behind what their saying opens up deeper questions and ideas.
Dancing in Flames-Chinook
"Walking on the edge of it, almost slippin´ over to the other side
But something's telling me to quit, ignoring all the shivers down my spine
Running for the hand of it, chasing everything until I loose my mind
...
I won't be fit in
My dreams are burning
My heart is dancing
In flames without hurting"
Chinook uses the method rhyme with the last word of the line.
Ex: side, spine, mind.. burning, hurting
There is definitely poetry in music, and I feel that this song exhibits it properly and it helps with putting deeper thoughts out there.
Have you forgotten- Darryl Worley
"Have you forgotten how it felt that day to see you home land under fire and your people blown away have you forgotten?"
This song displays emotion that is for ones fellow man.
Church Bells by Carrie Underwood
"She caught the eye of an oil man dancing one summer night in a dime store dress. She had the looks, he had the mansion, and you can figure out the rest. It was all roses, drippin in diamonds, sippin on champagne...Saturday night after a few too many he came home ready to fight. It was all bruises, covered in makeup, dark sunglasses...Jennie slipped somethin in his Tennesee whiskey no law man was ever gonna find, and how he died is still a mystery, but he hit a woman for the very last time." Some poetry tells a story, just like this song does. This song is like poetry in a way that Carrie doesn't just come out and say certain things. You have to infer them.
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