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Power of Song Lyrics Versus The Knowledge of Poem 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. One difference between the song and the …show more content…

One similarity is that there is a similarity in allusion. Heaven in “Mr. Rager” is known to be this glorious place to journey to. Scott states in his lyrics, “I’m on my way to heaven (wherever you are, now).” (Cudi line 6). Heaven is hard to find, it is this glorious place in the book “The Bible”. Just about the same in the poem “Dreams” except the man is dreaming about heaven, “‘Twere folly still to hope for higher heaven.”(Poe line 12). Heaven is always going to be the highest place to look up too, especially in the sky. Both poem and song lyrics have a big similarity in allusion. There is no winner on which is better but both have spoken what heaven is …show more content…

“Mr. Rager” has a very important symbol in the song lyric and that is Mr. Rager. Scott writes, “I’m off on an adventure, Mr. Rager/ Tell me some of your stories, tell us of your travels.” (Cudi line 18, 19). Mr. Rager symbolizes as the adventurer on his way to heaven. It was easy to tell who was the adventurer in the song lyrics but harder in the poem. Allen states his symbolism in his poem,”Oh! That my young life were a lasting dream!/ My spirit not awakening, till the beam/ Of an Eternity should bring the morrow.” (Poe line 1, 2, 3). The symbolism in the poem is the man’s spirit. The man’s spirit has kept him believing that one day he will be in heaven.The most symbolized man, woman or object in either poem or song lyric is Mr. Rager in the song lyric. “Mr. Rager”, the song, has overcome the poem, Dreams, by the use of personification, allusion, and symbolism. Rage has outranked chaos in personification by giving it the form of walking, talking, and having a journey or idea of where to go. Heaven in both, song lyrics and poem are nearly the same. Mr. Rager in song lyrics has bested the spirit in the poem by telling what Mr. Rager is doing and talking about him throughout the song lyrics. Song lyrics are on the verge of being the new style of

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