Ed Sheeran's I See Fire

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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.
There are also many differences in the two works, the most glaring being that Ed Sheeran’s work is put to modern musical instruments, as opposed to the medieval instruments or no instruments at all that Shakespeare’s work would have been put to. Ed’s music also alternates between a fusion of hip-hop and pop and a rap style that I’m quite sure that William Shakespeare didn’t have in his time. Ed Sheeran’s works are also quite varied in …show more content…

On the other side you have William Shakespeare, who wears dressy, very nice clothing, has very well manicured facial hair, and a very high-class way of speaking, writing, and expressing himself through playwriting. There are many differences in the two men, but there are also many things in common. The universal appeal that I discussed earlier is a large factor, but they also both use higher level diction, which is uncommon in popular music today, but Ed Sheeran uses words in his songs and styles of wording that most of today’s artists don’t use or know how to use. The way that Ed Sheeran and William Shakespeare use their words to connect and resonate with the whole of humanity by using multiple levels of writing to connect to the whole of the human

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