As time progresses, many songs are released with similar messages. Sometimes it’s a message of hope while other times it’s about staying strong in tough situations. “Titanic”, by Russ , is a classical story of a childish dream that is unrealistic. In the song, Titanic, a child watches his family struggle financially.As his family struggles, he hopes he to solve all the family debts with his rap career. Through his lyrics, Russ illustrates the child’s perseverance.He keeps his head held high and doesn 't give up when times get hard. With the uses of poetic elements such as the speaker, tone and repetition the overall theme of persistence up, is presented to us. One of the strongest elements of poetry is the speaker. The speaker in this song is the son. With great determinations, the son is the one who …show more content…
It relays that the speaker,although determined, is still very dejected. The speaker’s tone throughout the song is sorrowful.The sorrow that is interlaced with the lyrics helps demonstrate the deep concern the speaker feels for his parents: “Mama tryna get safe / Dad is being prideful,”(21-22) .The speaker tells us that his mother is trying to get safe. She feels that she is in danger and that she just wants to feel ok. The mother is worried for her family. In the phrase “dad is being prideful,” the speaker tells us that his father is aware of the financial troubles but has too much pride to ask for help. According to society, a father and husband are supposed to be the head of the family. By experiencing such financial hardships, the father feels like he has failed his family. When the speaker says “ Hopefully we good soon /It 's never a bad time/ To deliver good news” (23-25), he is telling us that the financial struggle is soon about to end. The son is willing to take all his hard earned money and put it all towards the bills. This shows us the lengths a child will go to take care of their
Who is the speaker of the poem? It is not the author necessarily. What can you tell about the speaker from the poem?
The poem told the story of a man who is inhibited by language, and has never quite had the ability to articulate his thoughts and feeling through words. It is said that his family members have tried
The sonf has a definite rhyme scheme which lends itself well to the theme of the poem.
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.
Li-Young Lee’s poem, A Story, explores a complex relationship between a father and his five year old son. Although the poem’s purpose is to elaborate on the complexity of the relationship and the father’s fear of disappointing his son, the main conflict that the father is faced with is not uncommon among parents. Lee is able to successfully portray the father’s paranoia and son’s innocence through the use of alternating point of view, stanza structure, and Biblical symbolism.
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This essay is anchored on the goal of looking closer and scrutinizing the said poem. It is divided into subheadings for the discussion of the analysis of each of the poem’s stanzas.
The speaker of the poem tells the audience that he or she should be flattered that they were chosen as the subject of the speaker's poetry. The speaker convinces the audience that life is weak and Time is strong, but the speaker's poetry is stronger still. Perhaps the speaker felt that the audience was not appreciative enough of some previous efforts at immortalizing him or her in verse! For whatever reason, the speaker of Sonnet Sixty gives the audience a profound example of the importance of poetry.
The poem focuses on the son’s feelings and thoughts as he is looking up at what he perceives to be his father’s hospital window. The second stanza concretes the literal foundation for the poem—the son is despondent about the gravity of the situation revolving around his father’s cond...
I found that throughout this poem there was much symbolism within it. Identifying that it was written in first person form showed that this poem relates to the author on a personal basis, and that it was probably written to symbolize his life. But when talking about people’s lives, you can conclude that people’s lives are generally and individually very diffe...
Mermin, Dorothy. “Sonnet XXIX.” Poetry for Students. Ed. David Galens. Vol. 16. Detroit: Gale, 2002. 147-155. Print.
... become a poet. I am not particularly keen on poetry, but I do like Whitman's poetry because it is so beautiful..The boy, the speaker, is transformed, and then translates his experiences in nature into a language the reader can understand. What is special about the boy, why he can become "The Poet" is the risks he takes. He's not only alone, which seems to be necessary in order to be a great Poet, but also "bareheaded, barefoot," to the natural elements. He braves both body and soul to the wind and the sea, the sand with its briers and cutting grasses. Both the poet and the bird "must be still, be still to listen," and wait for the mate, the muse, the poem, the aria to come.We see the formation of the poet and we see him discover his poetic power. Music, the aria, in particular is central to the poem. Poetry and music are combined.I would love to hear this poem aloud.