In todays society poetry is all around us, we use it in music to deliver messages to the average radio listener. According to SelectUSA (The creative Media industry in the United States) The United States music industry in 2011 reached 15.2 billion dollars. With the information given a person can tell that a lot of time and money goes into music in today’s society. The music people listen to have many different elements that an average listener would not pick up. Many songs have poetic techniques that give great meaning to the song that makes the song unique. The song I Love the way you Lie by Eminem and Rihanna and the song Airplanes by B.o.B are similar in ways they use poetic devises and how the over all message of the two songs can relate to the average person that listen to the song.
I Love the way you Lie by Eminem and Rihanna can be looked at in multiple ways, but to me it is about two people who meet and fall in love, however, as time goes on, they start to resent each other and the man becomes physically abusive. The woman takes it at first, but then she tries to leave him. He promises over and over that he will never hurt her again and he will try to control his temper, but he's lying. He says that if she ever tried to leave again, he would kill her, and even though the woman knows that this is all just a lie, she keeps going back to him because she is in love.
Airplanes by B.o.B featuring Hayley Williams, is a song about two people who are tired of fame and wish to be able to go back to when life was simpler. It is also saying how life used to be easier, but as time goes on it steady gets harder and harder. The song also mentions how money is becoming more important to every one instead of their actual happiness. It a...
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...mistakes and they work hard to fix it they don’t really care at the end of the day because sooner or later they will be doing the same thing and are going to need the same help doing the same thing.
These two songs share multiple poetic devices that make them similar but yet unique at the same time. They both have a message and even though those messages are not the same they give the listener a message related to the problems that are going on around us on a daily bases.
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“Airplanes” by B.o.B, lyrics from www.azlyrics.com
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