“Thinkin’ ‘Bout You” Poetry Analysis
A person’s train of thought can go in any direction, however when something is bothering a person that same idea can circle through their mind. In the song “Thinkin’ ‘Bout You” by Frank Ocean, the speaker’s emotions are circling through his mind and depict how the speaker feels about the woman he loves. Ocean portrays the circling thoughts through the use of a relatable simile, understatement and the use of language.
Ocean’s uses a relatable simile to explain his emotions. In the first stanza, the tragic tone is established:
“...it usually doesn’t rain in
Southern California much like Arizona
My eyes don’t shed tears, but boy, they bawl” (2-4).
In the simile, Ocean compares his tears to rain. In Southern
The speaker’s rocky encounter with her ex-lover is captured through personification, diction, and tone. Overall, the poem recaps the inner conflicts that the speak endures while speaking to her ex-lover. She ponders through stages of the past and present. Memories of how they were together and the present and how she feels about him. Never once did she broadcast her emotions towards him, demonstrating the strong facade on the outside, but the crumbling structure on the inside.
The first stanza describes the depth of despair that the speaker is feeling, without further explanation on its causes. The short length of the lines add a sense of incompleteness and hesitance the speaker feels towards his/ her emotions. This is successful in sparking the interest of the readers, as it makes the readers wonder about the events that lead to these emotions. The second and third stanza describe the agony the speaker is in, and the long lines work to add a sense of longing and the outpouring emotion the speaker is struggling with. The last stanza, again structured with short lines, finally reveals the speaker 's innermost desire to "make love" to the person the speaker is in love
Rapper Trina’s March 2000 single “Da baddest b*tch”, proclaimed her as the Queen of Hip hop. “Da baddest b*tch” was a controversial song that made way for many criticisms. The rapper’s song endorsed the idea of women referring to themselves as “bad b*tches”, promoted promiscuous behavior and encouraged females both young and old to use men for money.
This poem reflects on how when you lose someone you truly care about it affects you mentally. When we lose someone who we're really close to, we tend to hold a grudge and start questioning our love for the world. We lose ourselves when we
21 pilots use rhyme to get across their theme in poetry. In Car Radio, 21 pilots use rhyme to get across their theme of suicide and depression. In the song, 21 pilots choose to rhyme their ending words. “ I have these thoughts so often I ‘ought to replace that slot with what I once bought “cause somebody stole my car radio, and now I sit in silence.” “ Sometimes quiet is violent, I find it hard to hide it.” “ My skin will scream, reminding me of who I killed inside my dream.” “ I’m forced to deal with what I feel, there’s no distraction to mask what is real. I pull the steering wheel.” “ I find over the course of our human existence, one thing consists of consistence, and it’s that we’re all battling fear.” “ Please stop thinking, I liked it
Kelly Going lives in Beacon, New York. After graduating from college, she has had many jobs. These include adult literacy tutor, ticket agent for a major airline, front desk clerk at a resort hotel, and an assistant in a Manhattan literary agency. K.L. Going likes to travel and she has lived in Maine, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Louisiana and New York.
Comparing Mike Rose's I Just Wanna Be Average and the “Report of the French Commission on American Education, 1879'
Love can come at unexpected times, through current situations or through memories, and they will always have that permanent effect on us, just like a tattoo. Because of strange stanza breaks, unusual imagery, and elongated punctuation, the reader can determine the deeper meaning of the poem. The two-lined stanzas signify short-lived loves, and the stanza breaks depict the break-ups and passing of loved ones. The imagery of skulls and the metaphor that love is a tattoo shows that love never deteriorates. And lastly, the poem is only two sentences long, so this shows the fluidity and never ending power of love. Too often people take advantage of love, but what they aren’t aware of is that their experiences with each and every person they have loved tattoo their mind to make them into who they are, much like a tattoo permanently inks one’s skin to commemorate a
From analyzing the text it’s obvious to the reader that the narrator is dissatisfied with where he’s at in life. The first stanza is an insight into the atmosphere of his high school, and the word choice and imagery play a role in depicting his disgruntled
My Forbidden Face by Latifa relates to this course in a number of ways. First, the fact that the author cannot divulge her real name for fear of being beaten, raped, and/or killed is one way that the book correlates with the class. Other examples are subordination of women, veiling, and keeping women out of the public eye. The Taliban are very extreme in their treatment of women; in fact, it is almost as if they are living in the very distant past.
Literacy, or the capability to comprehend, translate, utilize, make, process, assess, and speak information connected with fluctuating settings and displayed in differing organizations, assumes an essential part in molding a young's persons trajectory in life. The ability to read speaks to a key factor of scholarly, social, and financial success (Snow, Burns, & Griffin, 1998). These abilities likewise speak to a fundamental segment to having a satisfying life and turning into an effective worker and overall person (Snow, Burns, & Griffin, 1999). Interestingly, recent studies have demonstrated that low reading skills lead to critical hindrances in monetary and social achievement. As stated by the National Center for Education Statistics, adults with lower levels of reading skills and literacy have a lower average salary. Another study evaluated that 17 to 18 percent of adults with "below average" literacy aptitudes earned less than $300 a week, though just 3 to 6 percent of adults with "proficient" reading abilities earned less than $300 a week (Snow, Burns, & Griffin, 1998).
In “A Rainy Morning” by Ted Kooser, we get a lot of imagery, as well as figures of speech, specifically metaphors. This poem through the use of an extended metaphor helps us to see life and our everyday actions into a new perspective. Here we will examine the poem’s language and imagery to help understand what the theme of “A Rainy Morning” is.
While the initial feeling of the song can be glum, the true message behind the song is happiness. In the song Cole raps about the life he once lived while growing up in poverty. Cole connects with the listeners by referring to when he was growing up, and the hardships he would face. I see poetry through this because this provides an emotional message about how life was growing up in poverty and dealing with the difficulties of life. Cole starts his first verse by saying the following:
In line five and six, the male feels so down and intimidated and could not do anything. In the third stanza, in line one to four we see that the male tries to change the present state but it does not seem to bear fruit. In line six and seven the female is still dominating the male.
I will begin by saying that as much as I appreciate hip-hop, rap, and r&b and listen to things influenced by these styles of music, my personal choice of music is not any of these three. That being said, I do not necessarily have a favorite artist in this style, but if I had to pick one person that I listen to on occasion, it would have to be Ed Sheeran, who has come across the music scene recently and has become a very popular figure in the music world today. As I look at the lyrics of his song “I See Fire,” I see a resemblance to Shakespeare’s work and his styles of writing.