Without a doubt, poetry and jazz remain beautiful ways to express one’s emotions. Whether through the meticulously hand-picked words to create rhythm, meter, and rhyme, or the composition of different instruments to create harmony in chaos, both are undeniably valid, pure forms of that person’s emotions. However, the union of these two becomes obsolete as current music digresses into mumble rap or meaningless lyrics. Unlike most modern-day songs, “Fireworks” by Mitski doesn’t solely rely on the instrumentals; instead, she incorporates apathetic descriptions, recurring opposition, and the personification of sadness to convey the deafening isolation people with depression face daily. Regardless of the passionate instrumentals that captivate the …show more content…
Even as these complications inflict great misery upon her, like a knife on her side, she chooses to suppress these pains to continue her detached life. Unlike the rest of the song, she utilizes the instruments for the chorus to create strong juxtaposition through lyrics and sound. In this section, Mitski refers to the fireworks being symbolic through oppositional language when she states, “And then one warm summer night / I'll hear fireworks outside / And I'll listen to the memories as they cry, cry, cry.” Luckily for the listener, the fireworks’ representation is directly communicated, signifying the suffering and pain Mitski endured. Through the use of a conventional celebratory item, most often reserved for the Fourth of July, she juxtaposes it through the repetition of crying. As Mitski conveys this lament, the listener picks up on the implied message of the inescapability of her sorrow, shown through the recurring idea of weeping. Even during a patriotic time, which we can infer due to the summer setting and fireworks, her depression overtakes her ability to enjoy …show more content…
Furthering the oppositional nature of the song, the true intent of the lyrics and the composition of the piece actively combat each other, showing the fluctuating emotions someone with depression can feel when they become aware of their sorrow. While personification is a common literary element engraved into our minds since elementary school, the use of it in songs can be scarce, which Mitski takes advantage of. When conveying the extremity of her emotions, the concrete idea of silence is emphasized by its quiet, gloomy stature, as she writes, “I will be married to silence / The gentleman won't say a word.” However, she transforms this sentiment of silence into an unbreakable bond through marriage. The powerful emotional state of her sorrow is forever tied to her through the personification of silence, thus revealing how she views her depression as inescapable and, unfortunately, unified with her. The following lines accentuate this as she sings, “But you know, oh you know in the quiet he holds / Runs a river that never finds home.” This quiet, depressive state is what she’s implying silence to
Music is magical: it soothes you when you are upset and cheers you up when you are down. To me, it is a communication with souls. I listen to different genres of music. When appreciating each form of music, with its unique rhythm and melody, I expect to differentiate each other by the feelings and emotions that it brings to me. However, I would definitely never call myself “a fan of jazz” until I witnessed Cécile McLorin Salvant’s performance last Friday at Mondavi Center. Through the interpretations and illustrations from Cécile’s performance, I realized that the cultural significance and individual identity are the building blocks of jazz music that create its unique musical features and support its development.
Song lyrics have set off a great generation of our leisure time than reading poetic devices, therefore song lyrics are better than poetic devices. Song lyrics have dropped numerous lines that attach to us now a days and make us listen to the line over and over unlike poetic devices. Song Lyrics have so much meaning by word choice and by relations.”Mr. Rager” by Kid Cudi, is about people fed up with society and plan on taking a journey. “Dreams” by Edgar Allen Poe, is about a man who dreams of a greater life. Mr. Rager, the song by Scott Cudi, has a better meaning than Dreaming, the poem by Edgar Allen Poe, by personification, allusion, and symbolism.
For centuries, writers of both poetry and prose have sought to entertain and educate their readers as well as evoke specific emotions by detailing events from the human experience to which they can relate. Similarly, composers have sought to do the same albeit through the combination of music and lyrics. In his 1982 release, “Goodnight Saigon,” singer/songwriter Billy Joel, through the use of sound, imagery, symbolism and the juxtaposition of opposites, brings images of the Vietnam War to the forefront and in so doing, provides his audience with insight into the human experience.
Levertov shares many personal feelings in this poem. She clearly cherishes the marriage that she had with her former husband and does not seem to hold any harsh feelings toward him. In addition, she shows in the poem that she loves her son very much, wherever he may be. She also includes what we can gather to be a sad memory for her: the loss of her friend. Even here she still focuses on the happy memory of sharing the old wooden steps with this friend. This poem involves Levertov reminiscing about the old wooden steps on the front of her house where she spent many happy times. By recalling the steps, she is able to recall those many happy times spent there. Through reading this poem, we hear Levertov's very personal voice speaking about "A Time Past."
Music is regarded as a method of passing a message. Though some songs do not intend to do that, the message in them is still perceived. The song, “Get up, ...
There is one universal language: the language of music. Music has a special quality and ability to bridge both social and cultural divides. A proposed theory by Dr. Gray, Founder and Director of National Musical Arts’ BioMusic Program; describes music has been around longer than human-beings have. Music is the one thing human beings from various backgrounds can relate to. Every living creature would agree. Music is heard everywhere not just among humans, but in nature as well, through the twitting of birds, winds blowing, the soft sound of raindrops against a windowpane, the ocean waves moving back and forth and the hum of the ocean rushing in a sea shell. There is no escaping it; music lives in and surrounds us steadily. While there are countless songs which confer social or cultural consciousness, this paper will analyze and address the dynamics of M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes”, video. Stylistically, the paper will examine the artist point of view, the unique use of lyrical analysis and sound description in relation to its historical, social, political and/or cultural context. This essay will also trace the lyrical analysis and sound description of song and discuss how the elements (visually, sonically, and lyrically) interplay with the theme of immigration and/or violence.
In my paper, I argue that artists capture important insight in their personal experiences through music. In particular, I assert tha...
In the musical world, there is so much that you can learn and take from a song. However, the only way you can understand a song is by picking up the themes that the artist has used to represent in his music. The way that the artist conveys his/her themes, is by the use of different literary devices to strengthen the emotion in which the artist wants to express the themes of his music. An example of artist portraying their emotions through their music, would be the artists Common and John Legend. In their song “Glory” they talk about the three themes of freedom/glory, togetherness, and power in peace, with the help of using simile, ballad, rhyme, anaphora and lyric.
For many of us, one of the most accurate and effective ways to express the feelings that really matter to us is through music. We don’t only grow to attached to songs that are catchy, but also those with lyrics that we can relate to. It is not uncommon to feel like sometimes, artists can convey the way we feel better than we could ourselves. The storybook-like lines you read at the start of this page are a collection of lyrics
The blues is a music genre that laments inequality, while expressing sensitive distress for death of loved ones, optimism for an improved life, trade, and cash. The central idea of blues performances is that after listening or performing the blues, one is able to overcome grief and ov...
Many jazz artists as we know it are quite talented. Their talents are unique in that they can translate human emotion through singing or playing their instruments. Many have the ability to reach and touch people’s souls through their amazing gifts. Although this art of turning notes and lyrics into emotional imagery may somewhat come natural, the audience must wonder where their influence comes from. For Billie Holiday, her career was highly influenced by personal experience, the effects of the Great Depression, and the racial challenges of African Americans during her time.
His final argument of persuasion is that they don’t really need the physical presence, as long as there is a matter of trust then he will return to her once. more. Then there is the Overall, by the structure and language used in “Song”, the poem is. very consoling and reassuring. Compared to “The Flea,” it is very.
To begin, the episodic shifts in scenes in this ballad enhance the speaker’s emotional confusion. Almost every stanza has its own time and place in the speaker’s memory, which sparks different emotions with each. For example, the first stanza is her memory of herself at her house and it has a mocking, carefree mood. She says, “I cut my lungs with laughter,” meaning that...
To begin, the sound of this poem can be proven to strongly contribute an effect to the message of this piece. This poem contains a traditional meter. All of the lines in the poem except for lines nine and 15 are in iambic tetrameter. In this metric pattern, a line has four pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables, for a total of eight syllables. This is relevant in order for the force of the poem to operate dynamically. The poem is speaking in a tenor of veiled confessions. For so long, the narrator is finally speaking up, in honesty, and not holding back. Yet, though what has been hidden is ultimately coming out, there is still this mask, a façade that is being worn. In sequence, the last words in each of the lines, again, except for lines nine and 15, are all in rhythm, “lies, eyes, guile, smile, subtleties, over-wise, sighs, cries, arise, vile...
Emotions are evoked with the aim to free persons from disturbing emotions. In instances of pity and fear persons tend to accumulate these feelings, which is harmful to the soul. In tragedy, however, whatever sufferings witnessed are not in our control and these emotions are easily released thereby relieve the excess in our souls. Tragedy transforms these distressing emotions into “calm of mind”, thus, the emotional appeal of poetry leads to pleasure. In addition, esthetic emotion in poetry translates to pleasure. The reader and the listener of the poem are prompted through figurative language to visualize what is in the real world. The vividness of the imaginary world that is experienced by the reader, poet and listener generates to a new spiritual knowledge or understanding which gives pleasure (Berlant, p.189). To add on, melancholy as an aesthetic emotion is a source of pleasure. Melancholy involves a variety of emotions; a yearning, sadness, feeling uplifted and even an elusive excitement. It has both pleasure and displeasure aspects. The displeasure aspect lies in the feeling of grief, fear of the unknown, loneliness and emptiness. The pleasurable aspect is entirely about reflecting on elaborate illusion and happy memories. Melancholy is therefore deliberately pursued by finding seclusion. In seclusion reflection is deepened which in turn prolongs the pleasure. Dylan in his poem reveals instances of melancholy Gale, Cengage Learning,