“Strangers Like Me”
The speaker of the song "Strangers Like Me" is a man that is falling in love. The man is so use to a certain thing and a certain lifestyle. He doe not know what it is like to be like other men. The man is most likely from the 1900s because he does not seem to talk about anything old fashioned. The man has a very eager personality. He wants to learn as much as he can about other men and how they live. He also wants to teach the women that he cares about more about his own life. The speaker has fallen in love with a girl. She is causing him to have emotions he has never had before. In the song he states, "why do I have this growing need to be beside her". He is not use to love and does not know what it is like to want to be around them. The speaker also uses metaphors to share how he feels. The speaker appears to be a very good man that is going through many different new experiences.
The occasion of the song is to share how the man was feeling. The song is like a diary for the man. It shows how he is begging for help and wants to know more. The time perio...
The first few days were the men getting ready to leave the miserable situation they were in the past, but this was not without complications. The men first had to find e...
The poems Pietà by James McAuley and November by Simon Armitage are confrontational as they revolve around the theme of life. Life, death and grief are all something that every person will experience here on earth. Life… Death… Grief…The existing themes are already confronting but with the poets application of poetic techniques the two poems are able to be effective.
One member of this society is not as eager to keep the status quo. Cuiqiao is seen in the beginning apprehensively observing an arranged marriage. Her older sister had been beaten by her betrothed and the audience is never informed on how her mother died. Cuiqiao expresses her sorrow in song, most pitifully in th...
From the relationship that these men had with each, a love is revealed like no other love resembles. This is a love of friendship and of respect. Such a bond between people is difficult to achieve. Their relationship consists of an “unembarrassed love” that is constantly present.
...ly convey the shared experiences of unhappiness and helplessness. Cuiqiao’s performances of folksongs are often paralleled with visuals of the desolation of the land or the ambiguity of her singing. Much like the function of the Odes as a “didactic instrument,” while Cuiqiao is never depicted actually singing, the ambiguity creates a more relatable folksong that can move the masses and encourage a virtuous change (Nylan 75). The function of both the Odes and Cuiqiao’s folksongs work as expressions of intense emotions, which are interpreted in order to understand “human capacities and aspirations and how to motivate them” (Nylan 75). While the workings of the feudal system eventually prove too intolerable, the ending of Cuiqiao’s story is her final act of autonomy in search of personal liberation, empowered by the performance and promises of the Communist’s folksong.
Love Song is in the first person point of view, and this person refers to "
This poem opens up the eyes of the reader and teaches us a lesson about life. It is essentially an example of the saying “Don’t judge a book by its cover”. The woman seems so perfect on the outside and for that reason the man wants to be with her, but when he knows that the cover of her book is different from that of most, then he instantly makes up his mind that he won’t even open
As we humans go through out life, we are forced to interact in a world full of people. We quite often speak and do business with complete strangers and don’t give a second thought about what they did or said in that exchange of pleasantries. There are many stories such as Merimee’s Mateo Falcone, Street’s Grains of Paradise, and Tunis’s His Enemy, His Friend that focus on these brief encounters and how it can affect one’s feelings, thoughts, and ultimately actions. I believe that short and concise interactions with complete strangers can affect how a person thinks and acts.
Starting with “Piu candida e piu bella” stanza and ending with “Ma del’ aspido sordo”stanza, you get a feeling of a mood change. At the beginning the words sound beautiful, but then in the end the word start sound sneaky like a poisonous snake. He does this ...
Furthermore, the literary devices of shift, metaphor, and imagery allude to the positive, hopeful attitude of the song within the warning and advice that the speaker gives his friend. The shift between the story (7-15, 22-31) and the conversation shows when the speaker switches from telling to story to the friend and actually talking to the friend. The story helps to put emphasis on the fact that it’s not too late for the “friend” to start over, or “put the past away”. By mentioning this sad story and suggesting for his friend to get help, the singer presents an overall idea of hope; that the “friend” that they are singing (to?) still has a chance at a normal, happy life.
His childhood memory comes unexpectedly into his new life by astonishment. The memorable tune made him have no choice but to remember the past, “In spite of myself, the insidious mastery of song” and “betrays me back”. These quotations are best examples, as they give an impression that he does not want to go into the memory and offers a slight feeling of self-disgust.
The harmony of the group is perfectly shown in this song. When a person hears it for the first time it sounds like one person sings it. The song opens with hope, “Helplessly Hoping”, that even in despair, there is hope. The word choice in the song is evocative and elegant, but it can have different meanings. The words are full of mystery, and the alliteration can make one’s spirit uplifting. The song is a non-verbal dialogue between a guy who loves a girl, waiting for her, and wonders about her love for him. The guy is being her harlequin, who hovers close to her, so she could notice him. The guy sees the girl’s good qualities, and true and kind spirit she has. Spirit is considered something that flows in the air, so that is why he wished he could fly and grasp her.
To begin, the episodic shifts in scenes in this ballad enhance the speaker’s emotional confusion. Almost every stanza has its own time and place in the speaker’s memory, which sparks different emotions with each. For example, the first stanza is her memory of herself at her house and it has a mocking, carefree mood. She says, “I cut my lungs with laughter,” meaning that...
The structure of this poem is not the traditional form of poetry, in that he begins with a first person statement then after an indentation, he elaborates on it almost lik...