Hello there my school life is pretty terrible, but I have been seeing what songs fit my life, because a doctor said it would help. The song I found was a song by the Foo Fighters called Monkey Wrench, and I’m going to tell anybody reading this about how it relates to my life. (this feels like a psychiatrist thing). The first set of lyrics have more of a growing up quality to them except for the last line, “What have we done with innocence?” It disappeared with time, it never made much sense. This lyric has the sort of letting go of the child (the child inside disappears with time, though mine never will, reeeeee!). Now this last part, “Wasting another night on planning my revenge”. That part is to me more of the hating school side and …show more content…
The second set of lyrics is the rebel within all of us, very much me! “Don’t wanna be your monkey wrench”, “I’d rather leave than suffer this”, and “I’ll never be your monkey wrench”. Those lyrics are very true for me especially during large assignments, and actually when we first started doing newsela I didn’t do the first 2-3 because it literally makes me suffer! Also with the lyrics, “I’d rather leave than suffer this”, a lot of times in math, I literally think that exact thought. The last bunch of lyrics I have is “I never wanted anymore than I could fit into my head!”, and “Under pressure wind up snapping in the end.” Now the i never wanted anymore in my head part actually again is referring to math in my life.(wow what a surprise) Now the second set of lyrics are referring to any homework I get, whenever I get, or got the massive packets from global studies i would always go a little crazy because they are as I already said, massive!! I mean the halverson might not think it’s much but for me almost 20 pages of work is to much. So at the beginning of this essay I said that I would tell anybody reading this about how this relates to my life and i have shown my ideas.
As depicted in the poem "Kicking the Habit", The role of the English language in the life of the writer, Lawson Fusao Inada, is heavily inherent. As articulated between the lines 4 and 9, English is not just solely a linguistic device to the author, but heightened to a point where he considers it rather as a paradigm or state of mind. To the author, English is the most commonly trodden path when it comes to being human, it represents conformity, mutual assurance and understanding within the population. Something of which he admits to doing before pulling off the highway road.
Kim Addonizio’s “First Poem for You” portrays a speaker who contemplates the state of their romantic relationship though reflections of their partner’s tattoos. Addressing their partner, the speaker ambivalence towards the merits of the relationship, the speaker unhappily remains with their partner. Through the usage of contrasting visual and kinesthetic imagery, the speaker revels the reasons of their inability to embrace the relationship and showcases the extent of their paralysis. Exploring this theme, the poem discusses how inner conflicts can be powerful paralyzers.
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The song didn’t have anything to do with the class at the time, but my professor liked the song and wanted us to try and understand what it is about. I didn’t realize it at the time, but my teacher was trying to get the students to look at the music rhetorically. The song “The Cat’s in the Cradle” came out in 1974, and is based on a song written by Harry Chapin and his wife Sandy (Harry Chapin – Cats in the Cradle). The song is about how quickly time goes by. A man keeps putting off spending time with his son because he is too busy with work. Once he is older and has more time, the tables turn and he finds that his son is now the one who is too busy to spend quality time. When the son was younger he always said “I’m gonna be like you dad, you know I’m gonna be like you”. Once the father is old he sadly realizes that his son really did become like
Most all ethnicities and cultures have been prosecuted at one time or another from an oppressing source. In the case of the Native Americans, it was the English coming in and taking their land right from underneath them. As the new colonies of the cohesive United States of America expanded, they ran into the territories of the then referred to Indians. These people were settled down south on the east coast, for example Georgia, Tennessee, Florida and the Carolinas. America obtained this land through the Louisiana Purchase, where they bought it from France. The Native Americans were already there before anyone, yet the big power countries bargained with their land. The Native Americans did not live the way the American democracy did, and they
I wake up in my small bed rolling right off of it, groaning and brush my teeth dragging myself down to the kitchen, not even bothering to brush my brown mane of curly hair or change out of the blue ‘Panic! At the Disco’ jacket that I’ve been wearing for two days straight. I go downstairs to eat breakfast and my ‘loving’ father greets me by yelling at me and saying that I don’t deserve to eat anything. I sigh at my Dad’s fatherly tone and grab my black ‘My Chemical Romance’ beanie that holds down my curly brown locks. I love how my curly bangs hung over my brown eyes. I love looking over the city because it makes me feel like I’m dominating over everyone else. I walk to the city bus. Fancy… There were a lot of people on the bus. There was a smelly fat guy who kept eating
This darkly satiric poem is about cultural imperialism. Dawe uses an extended metaphor: the mother is America and the child represents a younger, developing nation, which is slowly being imbued with American value systems. The figure of a mother becomes synonymous with the United States. Even this most basic of human relationships has been perverted by the consumer culture. The poem begins with the seemingly positive statement of fact 'She loves him ...’. The punctuation however creates a feeling of unease, that all is not as it seems, that there is a subtext that qualifies this apparently natural emotional attachment. From the outset it is established that the child has no real choice, that he must accept the 'beneficence of that motherhood', that the nature of relationships will always be one where the more powerful figure exerts control over the less developed, weaker being. The verb 'beamed' suggests powerful sunlight, the emotional power of the dominant person: the mother. The stanza concludes with a rhetorical question, as if undeniably the child must accept the mother's gift of love. Dawe then moves on to examine the nature of that form of maternal love. The second stanza deals with the way that the mother comforts the child, 'Shoosh ... shoosh ... whenever a vague passing spasm of loss troubles him'. The alliterative description of her 'fat friendly features' suggests comfort and warmth. In this world pain is repressed, real emotion pacified, in order to maintain the illusion that the world is perfect. One must not question the wisdom of the omnipotent mother figure. The phrase 'She loves him...' is repeated. This action of loving is seen as protecting, insulating the child. In much the same way our consumer cultur...
The speaker of this song is facing both internal and external conflicts which consume his mind into nothing but sadness. The internal conflict faced involves repeated accounts of failure faced by the teenage boy that in return diminish his self confidence and lead to his isolation from society. This internal conflict increases the division between the two parts of his brain, increasing his depression. In addition the external conflict described in the song adds more weight to his loss of confidence. The speaker describes being let down by multiple people and wanted to be helped but seems to be let down and stuck in his own mind.
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
Through written communications, writers use a myriad of literary devices, to communicate ideas. With the use of metaphors, diction, and personification, writers are able to construct articles, books, and poems. Two examples of these included “Birthday” by M. T Buckley and “The Secret Life of Books” by Stephen Edgar. Each of these poems is trying to show an opinion toward the topic. The author in “Birthday” is trying to show how being born is similar to being in World War 2. On the other hand, “The secret Life of Books” is trying to show how books change the readers. Both poems use conceit, diction, and personification with the structure in order to convey their meaning of the poems.
While broad generalizations can be made about the meaning behind song lyrics, each person’s experience of a song is unique unto themselves and may even differ from the actual intentions of the artist; consequently, I stress that the following explanation is of my own personal perspective. Comprised of 3 unique stanzas and 5 others making up a repetitive chorus, this song seems to be half a victory lap that the singer
Did I Miss Anything? is a poem written by a Canadian poet and academic Tom Wayman. Being a teacher, he creates a piece of literature, where he considers the answers given by a teacher on one and the same question asked by a student, who frequently misses a class. So, there are two speakers present in it – a teacher and a student. The first one is fully presented in the poem and the second one exists only in the title of it. The speakers immediately place the reader in the appropriate setting, where the actions of a poem take place – a regular classroom. Moreover, the speakers unfolds the main theme of the poem – a hardship of being a teacher, the importance of education and laziness, indifference and careless attitudes of a student towards studying.
Don't you think it's funny how we're all delinquent kids Like hush now Don't say, Don't say” that verse of the lyric means that society tell us we MUST live up to gender roles and how it crazy and petty that they tell us how to live even though people don't want to live that way that society wants them too. The lyric connect back to Janie and Tea Cake and how he beats her to show
The poem “Warned’ by Sylvia Stults, first seems to be about the ways human are hurting nature. However, when we look at the poem through the lens of John Shoptaw’s essay “Why Ecopoetry,” we see the evidence that this is an ecopoem and is asking people to take action to protect the environment. The poem is about the destruction of earth. The poet also tries to raises some awareness about the environment. Additionally, the internal meaning of the poem is that we, humans depend on the world’s resources, therefore we should take care of the natural world.
Considering altogether setting, figures of speech and tone we can finally conclude what is this song is about.