All 4 one – SONG ANALYSIS Essay

"Song" "Song" written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson consists of a simple structure of a quatrain, three couplets and finishes with another quatrain. It has a similar form to a sonnet but does not quite fit the same description. By using this simple structure he shows that his love is not normal but special and has a different form to any other love. It also shows a symmetrical structure, which is illustrating the equal love between him and his lover. There is no rhyming scheme, to again draw attention to the fact that this is not an ordinary sonnet for an...

Poetic Analysis of Song Lyrics I chose "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" by lyricist and lead singer of the Smashing Pumpkins Billy Gorgon as my song for the poetic analysis essay. I seemed to Identify with the song the first time I heard It on the radio. The lyrics describe how many teens felt growing up in the ass's, myself included, hating everything around us and facing adulthood with hopes that some contentment in life will come. "Bullet with Butterfly Wings" is one of those songs that make you shake your head when you really listen to the lyrics. The mood...

In order to fully answer this question I firstly looked up the meanings of the words 'protest' and 'song'. The Oxford Concise English Dictionary defines 'protest' as "as statement of dissent or disapproval" and song as either "as short poem in rhymed stanzas" or "as short poem or other sets of words set to music or meant to be sung". Charlotte O'Neil's Song is indeed a poem comprising of four stanzas, each with an element of rhyme. The choice of words alone also makes it clear that the song is a "statement of dissent". In the poem we learn a...

Song lyrics can express powerful, passionate feelings; they can verbalize a feeling that you yourself could not put into words. Each song conveys a different message. They can be upbeat and carefree tunes, heart-wrenching break-up anthems, or angry and vulgar raps. Spencer Fort is an alternative singer and songwriter that coveys honest emotions through his lyrics. In his song, “To the Moon and Back,” he uses both song lyrics and music to express his desire to ultimately live a full, rewarding life after he overcomes the obstacles he faces. The lyrics alone carry this message that Spencer Fort is going...

It is apparent that female music in Canada is a growing industry, and plays a very controversial role in Canadian society. Canada is a land of many ethnic backgrounds and an extremely diverse culture, one of the best ways to express culture is through music. Sarah McLachlan has enjoyed worldwide success with the album Surfacing, and more recently Mirrorball. The album titled Surfacing was released in 1997 and features a song called Building a Mystery. Building a Mystery clearly exemplifies the incorporation of many important musical elements to create a widely accepted song. In the application of a few distinct...

The first poem I am going to look at is Charlotte O"Neil"s song. Charlotte O"Neil is servant who looks on her life as gruelling and dull. Her heart sets on an exciting new life in New Zealand were she hoped to live her life as "luxurious" as her mistress. We learn about Charlottes O"Neil"s lifestyle and how it differs from her mistress's and with that we can answer why she wrote this poem. In the poem it clarifies that Charlotte O"Neil was bored with her work and felt she could do more from her independents and individuality. Her harsh tone...

When I was younger, I lost my boyfriend in a terrible car accident that could not be avoided. I tried to convince myself that I was only dreaming ; but the truth was he wasgone and id never, ever see him again. Dante Gabriel Rossetties,?Beata Beatrix?, bringsback awful memories I would rather leave in the past. The woman takes up the majorityof the painting . A vision of beauty , but also of death, love but most of all despair.Christina Rossetties,?Echo? relats to Dantes painting because they both deal withthe same feelings of hope and despair. Toni Braxtons ?Unbreak My...

Archibald Mescaline's imaging idea of art for art's sake is expressed in the poem 'Ears Poetical'. The poem is about the art of poetry or what a poem should be. It is interesting to note that as Manacles states what a poem should be, he Illustrates It as well, In the poem by successfully using paradoxes/contradictions and Images to convey the Idea that good poetry uses powerful Images. The poem Is divided Into three sections of eight lines each with four rhyming couplets. In the first section, he insists that a poem should be 'silent', dumb' or wordless. This seems...

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock demonstrates the effects of social and economic pressure in the life of a Victorian man. T. S. Eliot shows us, in an ironic monologue, how the reality of age and social position paralyzes his character with fear. The poem opens with six lines from Dante s Infernio. This particular stanza explains that the speaker is in hell and the message can only be told to someone else in hell. The speaker tells us that it is OK for the listener to hear the message, since in order to hear you must already be...

In his poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," Eliot explores thetimeless issues of love and self-awareness - popular themes in literature. However, through his use of Prufrock's profound self-consciousness he skews thereader's expectations of a "Love Song" and takes a serious perspectiveon the subject of love, which many authors do, but few can create characters asdeep and multi-layered as Prufrock; probably the reason that this poem stillremains, arguably, Eliot's most famous. The beginning of the poem is pre-emptedby an excerpt from Dante's Inferno which Eliot uses to create the poem's serioustone, but also to begin his exploration of...