Is Ed Sheeran the new Shakespeare? Ed Sheeran, to be or not to be the modern Shakespeare Sheeran is no stranger to the human condition of love. But does he stack up to the standards of the great, Shakespeare? Yes he does, through his storytelling and meaningful language. Lachlan King reports. What’s the one feeling that puzzles everyone? The one feeling that has made as many conflicts as it has ended? What feeling has more songs, stories, and plays written about it than any other emotion? It’s love, the single emotion that makes friends into foes and foes into friends. So many interpretations surround love, from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to modern songs by artists such as Ed Sheeran. We all know who Shakespeare is by now. His playwrights …show more content…
His debut album, +, containing the singles The A Team and Lego House, was certified quintuple platinum in the United Kingdom. His popularity with the masses gives him the opportunity to allow him to have as much impact as Shakespeare. As Sheeran has revealed in the majority of his songs, he’s no stranger to the effects of love. Break ups, make ups and the simple feelings of love. By using modern English he has portrayed the feelings of love in an effective way which people can understand and relate to in the same manner Shakespeare …show more content…
The woman stated in the song is poor and homeless in the cold as a result of her addiction. Sheeran talks about the tragedies people can experience in life just as Shakespeare did in his plays. “Burnt lungs sour taste” describes what she feels when smoking drugs. “She is in the class A Team” describes the use of class A drugs. “Stuck in her day dream“, meaning she can’t escape her addiction. “But lately her face seems slowly sinking, wasting crumbling like pastries” describes her appearance as fragile and worsening through simile and imagery. “The worst things in life come free to us” means we don't always go looking for misfortune, sometimes misfortune finds us. The rest of the chorus is an allusion to everyday life and it talks about how we are controlled by the wealthy, so “we all go mad” for something that will make our lives easier. Life is a burden and a gift; there is a beginning and an end. Everything in-between just prolongs the inevitable. When compared, Sheeran has a similar view to that of Shakespeare’s view of love, life and
A calm arrival could point to the emptiness of her room, emptiness in terms of view or vibe. Everything in its place could also point to a boring life, there’s nothing new or changed in her room just like in her life. Her room is a pretty accurate depiction of her current situation. “The calendar on my wall predicts no disaster only another white square waiting to be filled like the desire that fills jail cells.” (Hull 83, 32-36) This line is another pointer to the desire of something new in her life. She wants to fill in her empty calendar, she wants change and nothing seems to be allowing it. The desire that fills jail is also a good line. The most common misconception is that all people in jail just want freedom but that is not accurate. Most people in jail just want something to do, they have already accepted the situation they are in, but are tired of doing the same thing every day just like she is. As you read deeper in the poem, she says, “When I walk out of here in the morning my mouth is bitter with sleeplessness. Men surge to the factories and I am too tired.” (Hull 83, line 39-42) The shift the waitress holds is one where her nights are spent awake, and her days are spent asleep. The time that she could have interacting with men is hindered highly by her current situation. She finishes the poem with “I’m fading in the morning’s insinuations collecting in the crevices of buildings in the wrinkles, in every fault of this frail machine”. (Hull 84, line 45-49) At the end, the narrator decides to just accept her current situation; she knows that her mornings will be spent resting and she believes that she doesn’t have the beauty or energy to find the love she
Love, what a small word for being one of the most powerful and complicated emotion someone can receive. Love grants people an experience of other emotions such as, sadness, happiness, jealousy, hatred and many more. It is because of those characteristics that love creates that make it so difficult to define the emotion in a few words. In the play, “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare, two star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, defy their parents in hopes of being able to be together and live a happy life. The characters in “Romeo and Juliet” show the characteristics of love through their words and actions throughout the play. The attributes the characters illustrate throughout the play are rage, loyalty, and sorrow.
Her days are going by without purpose. Symbolism then begins to show dramatically following with lines 5-7, “my eyes are blocked with rubble, a smear of perspectives blurring each horizon.” The word rubble signifies the wrong that was involved in her relationship and the phrase “blurring each horizon” signifies that she couldn’t see past all the wrong until now.
...ut Nothing is an extremely fast paced and witty play, Shakespeare very much has love as his central theme. There are two very different, yet equally compelling relationships that are explored in depth. They run through the play concurrently, allowing the reader to compare and contrast the different facets and complexities between the two. The playwright’s rich understanding of relationships, and particularly his understanding of the fact that love is not always as formulaic as many a writer would have us believe, makes for a fascinating read. In fact, by directly comparing a realistic couple, full of real world self doubt and a fear of rejection with a very stereotypical love-at-first-sight type of relationship, Shakespeare is possibly making the point that love and relationships have more depth than is often given credit.
In the next lines “Just come back from the club” someone has come to her place to visit her, this person maybe a friend or family came at random. “I can 't hear her breathing.” When hearing someone breathing this could mean that the person is probably sobbing, he does not why, but he can sense something is out of place not just from the sobbing but sometimes we can feel when something bad is going to happen or is happening “Something doesn 't seem right.” He then realizes that this person was attacked and her perpetrator is looking for a way to hurt her more “Killer in the hallway” He knows that there is not time and he needs to help her before her attacker gets to her and hurts her more or even kill her. “We 're living on a set time” sometimes there is not time to think too much about our actions, we need to act before it 's too late, sometimes we just need to take action “We gotta get out, Go far away” It is our life and we need to do something about it even if it seems like a mission
These sets of lines express the frustrations of a mother who worked through a hard time, and is telling her son her story. She is telling her son this is the adversity she when through to become who she is today in spirit. ...
This song talks a lot about the baggage of the past that people hold onto instead of letting it go. All that baggage is only going to end up hurting you more and more instead of helping you in any way possible. An example is the opening
What is love? Love is a very powerful emotion! Love is something that can come at any time in your life. It can appear in any way, shape, or form. In the famous play “Midsummer Night's Dream,” by William Shakespeare, love is a major theme that affects many people and causes many challenges. In order for love to conquer these challenges one needs to stay true to their love, they may need the help of some magic, and must be persistent.
Love is often perceived as something perfect and flawless in today’s society. However, Romeo and Juliet, a play written by William Shakespeare, portrays love as a form of passionate and violent force that comes with both rewards and consequences.The tragedy focuses on two young lovers called Romeo and Juliet, whose families are intertwined in an ancient feud that disrupts the peace in Verona, Italy. For love, the two teenagers are driven to overcome obstacles they will never imagine doing, and as a result, they along other family members are forced to pay the price of their lives. Through the play Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare exhibits the reality of young love through the portrayal of the Queen Mab Speech, the impulsive actions taken by both lovers, and the results caused by the powerful nature of their love.
Love is a very powerful force which some believe has the capability to overpower hate. Within the play, Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare displays various events in which the characters convey the message that love can conquer all. The characters in this play continue to forgive the ones they love, even under harsh circumstances. Additionally, Shakespeare effectively demonstrates how Romeo and Juliet’s love for one another overpowers significant emotional scenes within the play, including the feuding between their two families. Furthermore, by the end of the play the reader sees how love defeats the shock of death and how Romeo and Juliet’s love ends the ancient feud between the Capulets and Montagues. Using these three events, the reader sees Shakespeare’s message of how love can conquer all. In the desperate battle between love and hate, Shakespeare believes love to be the more powerful force in the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet.
Shakespeare’s play Twelfth Night revolves around a love triangle that continually makes twists and turns like a rollercoaster, throwing emotions here and there. The characters love each another, but the common love is absent throughout the play. Then, another character enters the scene and not only confuses everyone, bringing with him chaos that presents many different themes throughout the play. Along, with the emotional turmoil, each character has their own issues and difficulties that they must take care of, but that also affect other characters at same time. Richard Henze refers to the play as a “vindication of romance, a depreciation of romance…a ‘subtle portrayal of the psychology of love,’ a play about ‘unrequital in love’…a moral comedy about the surfeiting of the appetite…” (Henze 4) On the other hand, L. G. Salingar questions all of the remarks about Twelfth Night, asking if the remarks about the play are actually true. Shakespeare touches on the theme of love, but emphases the pain and suffering it causes a person, showing a dark and dismal side to a usually happy thought.
In general, I understand that this was about wanting something more. Needing help, or wanting to give help to someone. A woman who lost at love, and her heart is hardening, but someone is asking don’t give up, not yet. This is what I could see clearly and understand. As for her use of words and imagery I could see the sparrows and them soaring. “Whipping their wings down the sky Through midair–(Carson)”
In the play “Romeo and Juliet”, Shakespeare shows that love has power to control one’s actions, feelings, and the relationship itself through the bond between a destined couple. The passion between the pair grew strong enough to have the capability to do these mighty things. The predestined newlyweds are brought down a rocky road of obstacles learning love’s strength and the meaning of love.
...guage and diction demonstrates the harsh truth in evading one’s problems as a solution. Behind the positive and uplifting tone which brings life and joy to someone who hasn’t felt such emotions for so long, the introspectively honest and melancholy truth shines as the real meaning behind the song. Overall, while it is beneficial to free oneself from societal standards that inhibit being true to one’s morals and values, man cannot sincerely “let the storm rage on” (8.6) without suffering nor acknowledging its presence. While one can, for a time, feel free and boundless from the fears that they outrun, they are not really free from their anxieties, and it will always be there to hinder them from actually letting go. Ultimately, in order to be truly comfortable with oneself and genuinely let go of past inhibitions, one must find the courage to face their storm inside.