Ultralight Beam by Kanye West

The song Ultralight Beam is featured on Kanye West album The life of Pablo. I think this song is poetic because it uses a lot of smiles and metaphors and because the song has a deeper meaning. I think the song had very good metaphors and similes. In the song Kanye sings, "We on an ultralight beam/ We on an ultralight beam/ This is a God dream/ This is a God dream/ This is everything". Ultralight beam is a metaphor for the path to heaven. This adds meaning to the song because In Chance's verse he says "Treat the demons just like/ Pam/I mean I fuck with your friends, but damn, Gina". In this line Chance uses a simile to compare demons to Pam form the Martin show. In the show Martin, Martin and Gina were in a relationship and Gina's. In the show Gina's best friend Pam and Martin would mess with each other. This adds meaning to the song because Chance is comparing the demons to Pam and he show that he want to get away from them. Another Simile in Chance's verse is "Tryna snap photos of familia/My daughter look just like Sia, you can't see her." Sia is a singer who doesn't show her face in public, because she wants to maintain privacy. By protecting his family from the press he prevents them from seeing the trouble that comes when people become famous.

Though out the song they sing about a light. In Kelly Price's verse she sings, "Don't have much strength to fight/ So I look to the light/ (War) To make these wrongs turn right/ Head up high, I look to the light." and "Oh, no longer am afraid of the night/'Cause I, I look to the light". She uses the word light as a metaphor for god and by looking at the light she is looking at god for strength. She knows that God will make everything better and that he will take care of all his children. Another way the song uses the motif light is when Chance the Rapper sings, "This is my part, nobody else speak/This is my part, nobody else speak/This little light of mine/Glory be to God, yeah". The meaning of his light is talents god gave,the spotlight, and his dreams and wishes. He wants to make sure that everyone sees his talent and that they are paying attention, he doesn't want his moments to go notice.

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Music Poetry!

Here's our mix. See below for analyses of the songs.

What is Pagan Poetry?

“Pagan Poetry,” by famous Icelandic alternative artist Björk, contains many secretive themes and hidden meanings. One of the recurring themes is how the narrator struggles through her darker memories, or rather taboos, and finds a particular memory of her meeting this man. Another idea that is consistently repeated is how the narrator knows another woman loves this man, however, the narrator keeps the information of their love secret through “ A secret code”or “Pagan Poetry.” The secret nature behind “Pagan Poetry” is the fact that the Pagans believe that Poetry is a restless spirits and that is roams and hunts because it searches for the audience. In Björk’s 2001 hit single, her restless love for this man cannot be stopped as she prepares herself to marry him. In duration of the song, one can experience such feelings as: looming senses of insecurity, a sense of moving or transcending forward, and a deep pain within the artist. Björk is able to communicate such feelings through poetic and multidimensional language. One example of Björk’s use of poetic language is in her second verse “He offers/ A handshake/ Crooked Five fingers /They form a pattern/ Yet to be matched” Björk’s use of imagery here portrays how the man when shaking her hand, their fingers form a pattern unlike those whom his fingers have intertwined with before. In addition to the previous example, Björk’s use of repetition in her 7th verse of “I love him” for a total of 8 repeats, followed by “She loves him” twice, is used to emphasize how much she loves him and how she cannot get the idea of love out of her head, yet after she thinks about this idea, she remembers that another woman loves him. This concept is used again in the 8th verse where Björk’s sings “ She loves him… I’m gonna keep it to myself… I’m gonna keep me all to myself.” Yet in this instance, Björk tries to convince herself that she must let the other woman have him, even though Björk and this man are very deeply in love. Lastly, Björk’s use of contrast in her 4th verse “ On the surface simplicity...But the darkest pit in me it’s pagan poetry” proves that although her confliction can be easily resolved by her letting this man go, Björk stresses how the “Pagan Poetry” concept looms and haunts her mind even when she sleeps “They pulsate (wake me up) and wake me up (pulsate) from hibernating.” Clearly, whether the artist Björk is referring to herself or another person, the idea of releasing the man from her memories and to give away to another person is a very simple idea, yet impossible for the woman to execute.

No Church in the Wild

"No Church in the Wild" is  a song about religion and how you have to fight for yourself, because there is no one else there to save you when you're on your own.
Album: Watch the Throne
Artist: Kanye West
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Theme: You have to fight for yourself, as there is nobody else there to save you (“no church in the wild”)

The name of the song is "No Church in the wild" by Kanye West (with Jay-Z)(feat. Frank Ocean). This song is from the album Watch the Throne. This song is about how religion and how you have to fight for yourself, because there is no one else there to save you when you're on your own.

1. This song shows an analogy because of the verses "what's a mob to a king, what's a king to a god, what's a god to a non-believer, who don't believe in anything." He uses this poetic device to enhance how powerless the previous people or symbols are to the next.

2. This song shows a sense of Euphony. It shows Euphony from the verses "what's a mob to a king, what's a king to a god, what's a god to a non-believer, who don't believe in anything. We make it out alive. Alright, alright. No church in the wild." It shows that this piece of music has a sense of harmony, and it is pleasent to listen to.

3. This song also shows a sense of rhyming in most of its verses. A few of its verses are: "That’s somethin’ that the pastor don’t preach. That’s somethin’ that a teacher can’t teach. When we die, the money we can’t keep. But we probably spend it all ’cause the pain ain’t cheap." As you can already tell that the end of verse 1 rhyms with the end of verse 2, and the end of verse 3 rhyms with the end of verse 4."

Broad Shoulders

Taylor Bennett is the rapper out of Chicago and little brother to 2013's breakout rapper Chance the Rapper. The song "Broad Shoulders" off of Taylor's debut album of the same name is the first song between the two siblings that has been released. Taylor trades verses with brother Chance to describe their childhood and growth from boys to men. The song's lyrics are rapped through a different perspective for each verse, with the first being Taylor as a young man , then Chance as he grows into maturity, until the last verse which is in the perspective of parents of the teenagers growing up

The biggest source of poetic language throughout the song can be seen in Chance's verse in which he says

"Head on his shoulders ain't his own...
Who forced the hand to make the clone?"

with this language Chance is observing the influence that children have on their kids when growing up and how a big of a role parents have in shaping their children thus " Who forced the hand to make the clone."

Chance induces more poetic lines with a huge nod to the iconic tragedy, Romeo and , written by William Shakespeare; one of the most famous poets of all time.

"A rose by any other text will still be Rosetta"

This line is a play on the famous line " A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet." meaning that no matter the name or reputation of a rose it would still smell beautiful. Chance's twist on the line shows that no matter the language that his wisdom flows through, it is still just as meaningful.

On the final verse by Taylor we hear the unavoidable issues that many parents face when their children reach the teenage years.

"Watch her get older and older until she don't wanna be known as your daughter
Watch him get older and older until he forgets everything that you taught him"

These lines show the the disconnect the parents and their children go through when in their teen years. How young women don't wanna be known as "Daddy's little girl" any more, and sons growing up and going through new experiences that may be against the morals he was taught from his parents.

Carpe Diem

This is a spanish son called "Carpe Diem" of Arce is in an album called "Luciffer" and it's kind of a rap album when it expresses his feelings on that time that it was 2014, this song especially, I can, I feel identified and it helped me a lot when my grandpa died the same year, it talks as the name says Carpe Diem, that it means like "live the moment" and feel that the things in the past are just experiences and you have to pass them.
This poetry song it goes to everyone who lived some hard moments in their lifes, but everyone does, I have chosen that song because its also very clearly where does it want to bring the audience that it is this hard moments that you had or you lived in your life and that nothing it can't make you more happy that family as it says in some of his lines like:

Amigos hay dos, mama y papá las
Lágrimas vienen cuando alguien se va
Esta vida no es justa, otra quizá
No voy a esperar la muerte en el sofá

This it means that there are only two friends, mom and dad, it refers that the family is the first thing you have to keep and be save, then it says that tears are alive when somebody lives, this life is not fear, maybe another , I'm not gonna wait death in the sofa, so it means that things happen and you can't do anything only step on and like leave all this hardships apart of your daily life, because he doesn't want to be sad because its nothing good for him.

~Song~ 
 ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3AweLmSw3o
~Translation~  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SmUZ3npaYDjpkTVAKFvQmklSM6yjIC71F2Smozv2KDY/edit

Why Tyrone Can't Use Erykah's Phone

Cellular Device by Erykah Badu is apart of her album But You Can't Use My Phone which was inspired by Drake’s hit song Hotline Bling. This album is a phone themed work of art, which remixes and remakes on of Erykah’s best hits, Tyrone. The song itself carries the phone theme on while focusing on how people are always calling and texting Erykah when they want something. Which symbolizes how once she became a celebrity everyone just saw her as a personal bank or their own personal entertainer, when in all actuality they weren’t that close to her before, and really aren’t that close to her now.

Erykah uses repetition of the line “Late night when you need my love/Late night when you need my love/Late night when you need my love/Late night when you need my love” which makes the line resonate with you, a common technique in poetry. The line itself of course is describing how Tyrone use to call her when he wanted her companionship.

She also chooses more interesting nouns and verbs such as saying cellular device instead of cellphone which keeps you much more intrigued in the piece and for some it may make you have to listen a little harder and think more about the piece.

She also uses the voicemail interlude to show her beliefs and what days she celebrates and are important to her. “If you're calling to wish her a happy birthday, Kwanzaa, MLK,/ Black History Month, Juneteenth, or Hanukkah, press 2”. Obviously she celebrates her birthday; then Kwanzaa: the celebration of African heritage in African American culture; MLK day: Which celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. and all of his efforts with the civil rights movement; Black history month: The “remembrance of important people and events in the history of the African diaspora”; Juneteenth: the ending of slavery in 1865; and Hanukkah: the festival of lights.

Erykah’s use of imagery is also amazing such as “glasses of champagne out on the dance floor” shows the image of people at a party dancing and drinking champagne but it is just said in a clever manner much like poetry. At the end of the song she has a section that is a voicemail that clearly defines the entire album. It basically list off all the reasons people call her on her cellular device.

The voicemail tone goes, “If you're calling to beg for some shit in general, press 4/If you're calling to beg for some shit, but this is that pre-call before the actual begging, press 5/If you've already made that pre-call and this is the actual call that you beg, press 6”. While giving insight into her life it is also is pretty funny because you can just imagine how many people do this to celebrities that they “use to be cool with”.

The album But You Can't Use My Phone as a whole tells a great story and the song, Cellular Device  is a fun and light response to the freeloaders in life such as Tyrone.

Say It Ain't So

"Say It Ain't So", by Weezer, is part of their first album, Weezer, also known as The Blue Album. This and many of the other songs in the album were written by Rivers Cuomo and were inspired by many personal experiences from his past.




In the song, Cuomo talks about how alcoholism has torn his family apart. This changed how he perceived drinking in general. The song starts with Cuomo discovering an alcoholic drink in his fridge. "Somebody's Heine' / Is crowdin' my icebox / Somebody's cold one / Is givin' me chills," This line uses the theme of cold to try to connect an emotion to an event. It calls the drink a "cold one" and then describes how it gives the speaker, Cuomo, chills. The chills mentioned could be literally interpreted as the cold of the refrigerator (icebox), or as the chills that someone gets when the make a scary realization, in this case thinking one of his family members is an alcoholic.




"Say it ain't so / Your drug is a heartbreaker," Cuomo is expressing how alcohol is painful for him since it made his father and mother split up. Now that he thinks his step father is an alcoholic too, he is in disbelief.




Eventually Cuomo writes to his father and says, "Dear Daddy / I write you in spite of years of silence / You've cleaned up, found Jesus, things are good or so I hear / This bottle of Steven's awakens ancient feelings / Like father, stepfather," In this line there is a simile used to compa re Cuomo's step father to his father, in that he believes both are alcoholics. The line as a whole shows how Cuomo disconnected d with his father be a use of what he did and might now do the same with his step father without any other evidence.

Another Love Song

In the song “Sweater Weather” by The Neighbourhood on the album I Love You, reveals about how a man fantasizes about himself and his love together, having sexual relations together, living together, and facing the cold world together.

Jesse James Rutherford begins “All I am is a man / I want the world in my hands / I hate the beach / But I stand / In California with my toes in the sand / Use the sleeves of my sweater / Let’s have an adventure / Head in the clouds but my gravity’s centered / Touch my neck and I’ll touch yours / You in those little high-waisted shorts.” You might be thinking, Jesse is speaking about fashion, clothes, hating the beach or being in California. No that’s not what the artist means at all. Jesse James Rutherford wants to say make the best of the situation you're currently find yourself in. That’s why the Jesse James Rutherford says “Let’s have an adventure / Head in the clouds but my gravity’s centered." 

 Jesse James Rutherford sings “Cause it’s too cold / For you here and now / So let me hold / Both your hands in the holes of my sweater.” The artist is using imagery to describe a romantic moment where himself and his love face the cold world together, that’s why Jesse James starts with / “So move to a place so far away.” Another example where the artist implements the thought of imagery, moving far away from the “cold world” meaning society, with his girlfriend.

 
Jesse James Rutherford speaks about having a sexual moment with his girlfriend, Jesse James Rutherford sings “The minute that my left hand meets your waist / And then I watch your face / Put my finger on your tongue / ‘Cause you love to taste, yeah.” This reveals how their is butterflies in his stomach and is imagining sexual intercourse with her, and describing his love and romance for her.

Emotional Trip

In the song "Everything Will Be OK" by G-Eazy on the album "When It's Dark Out", the artist reveals himself and shows the deepest and darkest parts of his life. He used many visual lines to show his audience the pain he has felt in many instances of his life. The song is filled with his views of how he gain some and lost more on his journey through life and also fame.

The first verse of the song explains how he lost so many friends, including the girl he fell in love with, when he chased fame using his musical talent. He explains how he regrets leaving them behind, especially with the line "They say, 'You know if you loved her well then you would have stayed, you would have made a perfect pair that people would trade.'" This shows how people in his life judge him for leaving.

In the second verse, he explains how he left his brother to take care of their mother when he chased fame. Even after all of their struggles together, he felt bad for leaving his brother alone with their mom who was sick and out of a job. This is explained in the line "Like, 'You don't even come home enough. Where were you when she was in the hospital, huh? It was only us.'" This shows how his brother questions his fame and if it was worth him being left alone with a sick and poor mother. He regrets leaving his family behind even to chase his dream.

In the last and most emotional verse of the song, he explains his young life from leaving his father behind with his mother and brother, his mother finding a new love with a woman and his struggle with trying to understand it, and the death of his mothers new partner from depression. In the line "In that first class they came and got me, 'Your mom's outside, say goodbye now to everybody.' U-Haul waiting with all of her things at least what she could pack, in the time my dad's at work and before he gets back." This shows how he was forced by his mother to leave his father and live a new life with his mother and brother. This verse contains a very emotional trip for listeners that gives a big view of the artists open wounds from his struggles in life.

Overall, the song shows G-Eazy's deepest regrets and pains in his life that have come from not only his fame but his own ignorance from trying to chase a dream. Although he has succeeded in his dream, he still has so much he feels he has failed to do for his family. This song is one of his most emotional songs and leaves him open for the audience to see.

Deflecting The Worlds Bullets

People usually say “Don’t judge a book by it’s cover.”. But what about music? There is a small saying similar: Don’t judge music by its language.

The name of the song is called "Never Mind", by a South Korean boy group called Bangtan Sonyeondan (방탄소년단), translated to Bulletproof Boy Scouts or BTS. The song itself is by one of the members in the group, Min Yoongi (stage name: Suga). who writes and produces most of their music.

"Never Mind" is part of their 4th mini album called Hwa Yang Yeon Hwa (화양연화 Pt. 2). The group, in several interviews have admitted that there are two translations for the title. In Korea it’s mainly called In the Mood for Love but the literal translation in English is called The Most Beautiful Moment in Life

The whole concept of both mini albums The Most Beautiful Moment in Life Pt.1 & The Most Beautiful Moment in Life Pt. 2 are mainly directed toward the youth. It talks about the the love you experience when you're young, but it also express the pain and hardships that come along with it.

"Never Mind" talks about his, Yoongi’s , personal experiences, growing up and how people would always put him down for his passion for music. Though in the end he made it through, and is now doing what he wants to do in life.

The song may be talking about his personal experiences, but it speaks to the audience as a whole. The central idea talks about not giving up and it’s okay to make a mistake.

One of my favorite lines from the song is, translated of course, “If you feel like you’re going to crash then accelerate more, you idiot.” I personally like this part of the song. Because it maybe blunt, but, no matter how hard something gets keep pushing till you make it.

Within the song itself there is a specific line that I think represents a really good use of literary technique called Allegory, symbolizing a greater often abstract concept. Yoongi says “ Moss surely grows on a stone that doesn’t roll.” It shows reference to an old saying “A rolling stone gathers no moss.”. He’s saying, without clearly stating it. That for all the people who were holding him back they’re suck being simple minded. Opposed to a rolling stone that is always moving forward never lacking new ideas or creativity.

Another way the song shows itself is the emphasis on the word "Never Mind" in the song, which is also the title. The word itself is capitalized making it pop out even more. An example would be near the end, the whole group say the word like in a spoken word chorus style, saying the word strongly,

NEVER MIND NEVER MIND
No matter how thorny the road is, run
NEVER MIND NEVER MIND

He also uses the word thorny, showing his use of word choice but also as a metaphor to explain how hard life can be.

The way Yoongi wrote this song is very interesting because throughout the whole song, though he’s explaining his experience. It’s like he’s talking with someone within it. In the song he talks about his experience growing up but then he switches to another point of view as it someone was talking to him.

He wrote in the song “You will make your home go broke/ From that point onwards, I didn’t care/ No matter what anyone said.” It’s like someone was discouraging but he then thought in his head he didn’t care what they said. Also a few lines down gives another example when he mentions the line “ Like I always said hundreds of time every day, “Never mind me” ” he’s talking to people telling them not to worry and to mind their own business.

Overall this song, as well as their others songs, send messages throughout all their music. Even the meaning behind their name holds a significance. The meaning of their name, which personally, I think is very cool and inspiring, is to ‘deflect the world bullets’. In which it reflects in their writing about oppression in society as well as lyrics that relate to young people.

This is one of my favorite songs by them, because on a personal level I can relate to it. Though all their songs are my favorite. I feel that both albums, part 1 and part 2, are more relatable to all youth because it talks about what youth go through, whether it’s love, pain or struggle.

No Love

The song im doing is "No Love" by Eminem and Lil Wayne from the album recovery. The theme of this song is Eminem and Lil Wayne are talking to all the people that never gave them respect or love when they were younger or at least before they both became famous. They are telling all the haters that they are better without them and that they can all kiss their ass and that all the people that doubted them wont ever know the success they have now compared to them and to not even bother to try to be cool with them because they are way better without them and that hes basically just fine with Lil Wayne and Kanye West being on his side instead of them. They are also talking about how all 3 of them are better than the other rappers that are out there in the world. Lil Wayne talks about how hes better than many rappers by saying "Money outweighing problems on a triple beam I'm sticking to the script, you ni**as skipping scenes" here hes showing an example of why he thinks hes a better rapper than most by sticking to the script instead of skipping to do other things, then Eminem says "Look at these rappers, how I treat them so why the fuck would I join 'em when I beat 'em", here hes portraying how hes better than them that he doesn't have to team up with them to make a song when he can just beat them on his own. Later Eminem comes around and says "It's a little too late to say that you're sorry now you kicked me when I was down, but what you say, just (Don't hurt me)That's right (It don't hurt me) I don need you (No more)Don't wanna see you (No more)Ha bitch you get (No love) You showed me nothing but hate you ran me into the ground, but what comes around goes around" Eminem is calling out all the fake people he used to know and how they used to give him no love even when he was down. The people showed him nothing but hate towards him and now its their turn to pay because he has no love for them they're not nothing to him anymore because hes now living the life.

The Simile Song

In October of 2012, Taylor Swift released her album Red. The album was about "tumultuous, crazy adventures in love and loss," as stated by Taylor herself. One of the songs on the album titled "Red" stuck to me because of Taylor's constant use of similes throughout the whole song, which is why I would consider this song as The Simile Song. Each simile makes a comparison about a hard break up with someone.

The first line of the song is "Loving him is like driving a new Maserati down a dead-end street/Faster than the wind, passionate as sin, ending so suddenly" and in this Taylor is comparing the idea of showing off this fancy car everyone dreams of driving on a street that ends to loving someone, meaning that she thought that her relationship was something so great but in the end, it wasn't worth the time. 

Another line, which appears most frequently in the song, is "Losing him was blue, like I’ve never known/Missing him was dark grey, all alone." This line literally shows what she was feeling after the breakup while using colors to describe her feelings about her situation.

"Fighting with him was like trying to solve a crossword and realizing there's no right answer" is another line Taylor uses. In this, she is using a simile to get across the point that every time they fought, it never went anywhere and there was no point to the arguments the relationship had. 

Constantly throughout her song, Taylor uses many similes to make comparisons about going through a tough breakup. She also uses other poetic devices to convey how she felt after the relationship was really over. This song was overall poetic because of all the similes and other types of comparisons Taylor made to show her experiences. 

The Show Must Go On

Listen to Luciano Pavarotti, the famous tenor, sing while you read!

Ruggero Leoncavallo, aside from his wonderful mustache, is most well known for his famous opera I Pagliacci. Written in 1892, I Pagliacci is a tragedy about a clown in a performing troupe who finds out that his wife is cheating on him and demands answers from her in the middle of a performance. When she refuses, he murders her and her lover, closing their play and the opera with the famous line, "La commedia è finita!" which means, "The comedy is finished!"

"Vesti la giubba", which translates to "put on the costume," is one of the most tragic songs in the opera, an aria sung by the main character Canio. It is about his lament that even though he is depressed and his wits and feelings feel twisted and torn, the show must still go on and the audience must still have their laughs.

The song begins with Canio singing, "Recitar! Mentre preso dal delirio,/ non so più quel che dico,/ e quel che faccio!" which means "To recite! While taken with delirium,/ I no longer know what it is that I say,/ or what it is that I am doing!" Canio opens this song with a declaration of his own insanity, stating that he barley even knows what it is he's saying and doing anymore. He is so consumed by  his grief that he has lost hold of his sanity. This statement could also be a foreshadowing by the composer, Leoncavallo, of events to come.

After that Canio continues, "Eppur è d'uopo, sforzati!/ Bah! sei tu forse un uom?/ Tu se' Pagliaccio!" meaning, "And yet it is necessary, force yourself!/ Bah! Can't you be a man?/ You are 'Pagliaccio'." In this section, even though he is depressed, delirious and can barely control himself, he still must force himself to get into costume and act for the sake of being a man, his reputation, and for the audience.

One of the most striking, heart-wrenching parts of the song is when he tells himself to laugh, "Ridi, Pagliaccio,/ sul tuo amore infranto!/ Ridi del duol, che t'avvelena il cor!" which means "Laugh, clown,/ for your love is broken!/ Laugh of the pain, that poisons your heart!" In these last few lines of the aria, he is trying to force himself to laugh through the pain he feels in his heart, and laugh at his own broken love.

My Heart Is Anemic

A song that reminds me of poetry is " The Kids Aren't Alright" by Fall Out Boy. I feel that this song's message is that you can get through anything. The speaker's audience appears to be a young child that is going through hard times and need some positvity in his life. The speaker is presented as the up lifter, a person who has been down the same rode and knows how to get out of the funk.

 However, I feel that this poem has a much deeper meaning. I believe that this song is also about abusive or one-sided love and depression. The speakers talks about the difficult time that the young boy is going through: "Stuck in the jet wash./Bad trip I couldn't get off./And maybe I bit off more than I could chew/And overhead of the aqua blue." This verse is a reference  to both the instability and the pain one would feel when being in an abusive relationship. It also shows how difficult it can be to let go of it and how it becomes incredibly difficult to handle. Like you're trapped and you know you need to get away but you just don't know where to go or that you wouldn't know how to function if you did.

Fall Out Boy says,  "Empty your sadness like you're dumping your purse on my bedroom floor." He uses a simile to show the effect that sadness has on him.For a woman dumping her purse on the floor is like the end of the world, sadness has the same effect on him. Leading back to the fact that being sad only weighs you down and that everything only gets better. Just like you everything can get put back in the purse.

One last thing that caught my eyes that he says is  "And your love is anemic." He used a metaphor comparing love to a disease. This helps the poem because it shows the depressing side of the poem. In the begging, the song was all of the wrong things because he was so far in depression. Their heart was cold.

Yellow Submarine

 Yellow Submarine by the Beatles on the album Yellow Submarine  is quite a poetic song by the Beatles. It is built in a way so that it could have been pulled right from a child's imagination. One of the defining factors of this song is that at certain points in the song in the background there are funny sounding voices shouting commands for controlling the submarine. The song doesn't rhyme but it has a sort of nice beat or tune to it. All in all, the song is about a group of friends traveling in a magical submarine to save some people in another dimension. It's kind of poetic in it's own sort of way. It is the sort of song that has a story but a story that would never happen. In conclusion, Yellow Submarine would be pretty good as a poem and it has it's own sort of poetic way about it. 

But I know what he really loves you for...

"You Might Think He Loves You For Your Money But I Know What He Really Loves You For It's Your Brand New Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat" Is one of the more disruptive and chaotic songs by Death Grips from their album Government Plates. I wouldn't say it's exactly possible to understand or explain Death Grips with a single blog post. There is a books worth of information to cover here. But here are some simple bits of info easy to digest that could give you a little insight on them: They are a experimental hip-hop group who centralize their songs around dark cryptic lyrics, the vocalist Mc Ride's style is super aggressive and sticks out like a sore thumb from other rappers, it is a multi-racial musical group, and people such Fred Armisen, Tom Morello, and David Bowie have shown admiration for this group.

Something that's very poetic about this song and every other song is that it reads different than it sounds. A lot of times when you listen to one of their songs you could mistake it for a screaming ramble. But until you read the lyrics you realize that there is a completely different story being told. Their songs language are consistently metaphorical and sometimes an allegory for a dark past or present of Mc Ride. He opens the song with a glass shattering and a long drawn out eerie frequency then we hear our first lyrics:

Get so f    n' dark in here
Come come f  k apart in here
I die in the process
You die in the process
Kettle drum roll hard sh t
F  k I said f   er don't start sh t

Here we hear Mc Ride inviting us to come apart with him at the seams, he repeats it through out the song for emphasis. And when you and him dying in the process he is talking about "la petite mort" or the "the little death" which is a sexual euphemism. Distancing oneself from God for the sake of base pleasures "to f   k apart" that is. Then the hook just ends with him containing himself from getting violent.

I hover above you
Life pulled out your mouth
I become you
Opening of the mouth
Unlawful possession
Jellyfish in cold sweat deep end
Hollow shell twitch disconnection
Pupils swell
My entrance
Hijacked no questions asked
Stretch you on like latex mask
My sigils your epitaph 

Definitely a lot going on here. He begins to paint us a picture of ghost-folklore-him possessing you whilst sleeping. Mc Ride could debatably be possessed during this verse as well, as in many interviews the groups speaks of this force that compels them to create. He then references the ancient Egyptian opening of the mouth ceremony which involved magically opening a mummy's mouth allowing it to speak. Then he talks about his unlawful possession as a common theme in Ride's work he talks about various experiences on certain substances. The drug of choice here most likely being LSD because of his pupils swelling and his disconnection from his shell. And only then do we come back to his entrance of possessing you as he wears you as a skin suit. The verse then ends with him explaining that his tattoos mean the end of your life.

This song and many others of Death Grips doesn't tell a consistent story or theme, it does nothing more than throw chaos your way. But is never nothing short of a deeper meaning. But all that makes sense since that they have said that Government Plates wasn't an official release but more of an expression of "where they are right now."

My Own

Beyoncé has had her long career for R&B and pop music artist and one of my favorites and that i think that is very poetic is ¨Listen¨ by Beyoncé B´Day. Listen .

The idea of ¨Listen¨ is when you put your trust into someone and you come to realize that they didn't have your best interest at heart. This song is from the movie Dreamgirls when she's in the studio recording for Jamie Foxx , and she finds out everything he's done to break the group up only caring about himself just so he can get to the top.

The poetic language used throughout the song is an extended metaphor. She opens a verse with the lines:

The time has come for my dreams to be heard
They will not be pushed aside and turned
Into your own all 'cause you won't
Listen

On the outside the it just seems like she just wants to be free but it's more than that she's been take advantage of and played with.She is describing how all her feelings and dreams has been pushed aside. They didn't matter to him..¨Listen¨

In almost every stanza Beyoncé states:

You don't know what I'm feeling
I'm more than what you're made of me…..
Someone I thought had died so long ago

She is saying basically i am my own person and have a mind of my own and you don't get to control me anymore. ¨Someone I thought had died so long ago¨ is saying that was the past that was the old me.She old me left and came back and now she understand who she is .

In one of the beginning and end lines, Beyoncé says:

A melody I start but can't complete
A melody I start but I will complete

She's standing up for herself and that she's leaving him rather he likes it or not. Something was holding her back and trying to change her and she just wants to break free. And she just learns how to accept herself. She is who she is.And she realizes that no one can help you except yourself.

So over 3 minutes and 39 seconds you receive nothing but a powerful message on how to move on and just to listen to your heart,you'll find the correct path.

Music Poetry

As chosen by our class. Enjoy!