Comparing Song 'Creeping Death And Omens'

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Could song lyrics be more poetic than actual poem verses? That just may be the case.The song, “Creeping Death” by Metallica is more poetic than the poem “Omens” by Cecilia Llompart because of the use of imagery, allusion, and rhyme. Both poems use these items of writing. However, the song uses these items better, and it fits better into the song. Both of these poems deal with the issue of death, and go into detail with that death being spoken of, and the imagery with it, but with the song detailing more than the poem. In the poem, death is a constant throughout, and is immediately shown. In lines 1-4, when the author, Llompart says: The dead bird, color of a bruise, and smaller than an eye swollen shut, is king among omens. (Llompart lines 1-4) This shows, right off the bat that death is there, and goes into detail what it can do with imagery. Death then comes back a few lines later: Now we rely on a photograph …show more content…

One instance of rhyme is the words air and hair(Llompart lines 31 and 33). There is also rhyme in the song's chorus, with words like written ( said writt-on), done, one, son(Metallica lines 9,10,11,and 14). Like that word, written, words can be said different, supported by Matthew Zapruder, “The ways the conditions of that environment affect the construction of the words (refrain, repetition, the ways information that can be communicated musically must be communicated in other ways in a poem, etc.)” (Zapruder 6) There is still more rhyme in the song though, with words like hand and land (Metallica lines 31 and 32). There are also words like sorrow and tomorrow in the poem( Llompart lines 37 and 38). One last example of rhyme is in the poem with the words feasting and coming( Llompart lines 5 and 11). In the song, there are also the words mass and pass, air and there, and floor and door, showing much more incense of rhyme than the poem( Metallica lines

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