According to Erlewine, the album "would have been stronger" if Selena had lived.He concluded his review by calling the album a "powerful—and touching—testament to her talents". Time magazine's David Browne said Dreaming of You 's release was "one of the quickest posthumous albums ever cobbled together". He stated producers who worked with Selena on this album had decisively paired her with recordings that reminded them of lighter versions of the heavier sound of Paula Abdul and called them "greeting-card sentiments". The majority of the critics reviews were positive, with Dreaming of You receiving a widespread approval. EMI Records, wanted "Missing My Baby" (recorded in 1992) and the single "Techno Cumbia" (recorded in 1994) added to Dreaming of You, so Quintanilla III met with the R&B group Full Force in Manhattan. Full Force remixed …show more content…
Quintanilla, Jr. added "Como la Flor" (recorded in 1992), "Amor Prohibido" (recorded in 1994), and "Bidi Bidi Bom Bom" (recorded in 1994) to Dreaming of You. "Como la Flor", was called a career-launching single, it was said to express the sadness of a woman whose partner abandoned her for another while she wishes "nothing but the best" for him. "Amor Prohibido" is a Spanish dance-pop track. "Bidi Bidi Bom Bom", was remixed into a reggae track, it tells a story of the narrator's heart racing whenever her love interest walks by her. "Dreaming of You" was released on August 14, 1995, and it peaked at number twenty-two on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, the single sold 25,000 copies in its first week being released. "Dreaming of You" was the
hit,"Losing a whole year", followed by "Jumper", a song about suicide. This song became the
In “Late Poem to My Father” by Sharon Olds, the speaker, who is likely a stand-in for Olds herself, takes us through the relationship her father had with her grandfather. She then relates this to her relationship with her father. Starting with the title, the word “Late” could suggest that the father has died or it could suggest how she didn’t fully value her father’s love until recently. The poem is written in free verse with no particular pattern or rhyme scheme. There are no stanza breaks, but there is a lot of enjambment throughout the poem. Olds’s syntax and placement of enjambment compliments the poem the whole way through. The first word of the poem is “Suddenly”, as if she hadn’t thought of her father in a long time. The poem can be
The death camp was a terrible place where people where killed. Hitler is who created the death camp for Jews. The death camp was used for extermination on Jews. This occurred on 1939 – 1945. The death camps were in the country of Europe. Hitler did all this because he didn’t like Jews and the religions. The book Night is a autobiography written by Elie Wiesel. The poem called First they came for the communist written by Martin Neimoller is a autobiography.
In “Useless Boys” the writer, Barry Dempster, creates a strong feeling of disappointment and shame in himself and society as he looks back on his youth to when him and a friend made a promise to each other to “not be like their fathers”. Dempster expresses a sort of disgust for the capitalist society his world seems to be built around, a life where even if you’re doing something you initially enjoyed you end up feeling trapped in it. The poem is a reflective piece, where he thinks back on how he truly believed he would end up happy if he chose a different path than that of his parents. The author uses simple diction and syntax, but it’s evident that each idea has a much deeper meaning, which assisted in setting a reflective/introspective mood.
Patricia Young’s poem Boys is a representation of implied heteronormacy in society. Young uses tropes and schemes such as allusion, metaphors and irony to convey the ways in which heterosexuality is pushed onto children from a young age. Poetry such as Boys is a common and effective medium to draw attention to the way society produces heteronormativity through gendered discourses that are typically used to understand sex. Boys does an excellent job at drawing its readers to the conclusion that it is an ironic poem trying to emphasize the over-excessive ways in which we express heterosexuality in daily life.
The song Carry On My Wayward Son by Kansas contains insights into what Plato believes to be a philosopher as is found in his allegory of the cave in the Republic. Found in the second verse of the song, it describes how “Once [he] rose above the noise and confusion/just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion” which is a direct correlation to the journey which one takes to become a philosopher as described by Plato in The Republic through his Allegory of the Cave. This is similar in the sense that the philosopher separates himself from the distractions of normal life to search for what is the reality behind these distractions that cause illusions. The song also says “Though [his] eyes could see [he] still was a blind man/Though [his] mind could
The song "Dear Mama" and the poem "Mother to Son" are great form of literature. That describe the relationship between a mother and a son. The two pieces of literature have some similarities and differences.
The endless line of soldiers ready to be deployed to their almost certain death—one soldier stood out from the rest with his affection towards his son. On October 1, 1940, a man named Claude P. Dettloff captured the precious and sincere memory shared between a father and son moments before the father was deployed. This idea of love and hope is mentioned in the article "History of Vancouver - Wait For Me, Daddy" by Chuck Davis. Among the hundreds of Canadian soldiers, the unbreakable bond between father and son vividly emerges from the photograph. The soldiers march on Columbia Street in New Westminster, towards a train while a little boy runs from his mother towards his father. The sweet and innocent action brought smirks to the other men that faded within the endless line. The boy yearning for his father's embrace demonstrates hope and love through the parental bond as he watches him prepare to go into imminent danger.
Some people are born into this world without as many chances to get a better position in life. This can affect the people born into a lower class for the entirety of their life. In the poem “Saturday’s Child,” Countee Cullen uses imagery, personification, and similes to suggest the differences between people that are born into poverty and those that are born into an upper class part of society. Throughout this poem Cullen speaks about how the different social classes affect people; he does this with a pessimistic tone throughout the entirety of the poem.
“Lost Brother” by Stanley Moss is a poem dedicated to a fallen brethren, an ancient tree that had lived a long, noble life. As bizarre as it may seem to mourn a felled tree, the speaker wants the reader to share in his sorrow through extended metaphor and personification to prove that the tree was full of humanity undeserving of its untimely fate and whose life should serve as an example to others.
Sylvia Plath’s jarring poem ‘Daddy’, is not only the exploration of her bitter and tumultuous relationship with her father, husband and perhaps the male species in general but is also a strong expression of resentment against the oppression of women by men and the violence and tyranny men can and have been held accountable for. Within the piece, the speaker creates a figurative image of her father by using metaphors to describe her relationship with him: “Not God but a Swastika” , he is a “… brute” , even likening him to leader of the Nazi Party; Adolf Hitler: “A man in black with a Meinkampf look .” Overall, the text is a telling recount of her hatred towards her father and her husband of “Seven years” and the tolling affect it has had on
Did I Miss Anything? is a poem written by a Canadian poet and academic Tom Wayman. Being a teacher, he creates a piece of literature, where he considers the answers given by a teacher on one and the same question asked by a student, who frequently misses a class. So, there are two speakers present in it – a teacher and a student. The first one is fully presented in the poem and the second one exists only in the title of it. The speakers immediately place the reader in the appropriate setting, where the actions of a poem take place – a regular classroom. Moreover, the speakers unfolds the main theme of the poem – a hardship of being a teacher, the importance of education and laziness, indifference and careless attitudes of a student towards studying.
To what extent does the presence of nature impact the poems in “twenty love poems and a song of despair”
Every parent in this world loves their children more than anything. Even the children can’t stay away from their parents for so long. Nothing in this world could be more precious than the love of a parent has for his/her children. Our parents are always with us no matter what happens. Often in life we make mistakes, but our parents give us supports and teach us to learn from those mistakes and move on with our lives. They also try to teach us from their experience. Parents always make sacrifices to provide for their family. In the poem “Mother to Son” by Langston Huges and “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden, the poets talk about how the parents are always making sacrifices to make their children’s life a little bit easier. Both of these poems reveal the struggle the parents go through in order to provide for their family.
“Love Poem” is a twenty-four-line poem in six stanzas. The generic tittle is an accurate description of the poem; it is a clue that this may not be a traditional example of love poetry. Both poems have the same rhyme scheme because the second and fourth line of every stanza rhyme. However, “Magic of Love’ speaks of a general love bringing happiness, joy and comfort. While “Love Poem” is much more personal. The speaker talks of memories with his clumsy love. Both poems have a different point of view when it comes to love. In Ferrier’s poem, she describes love as something perfect, that fixes everything. However, in Frederick’s poem, he doesn’t speak about what the love does right but rather he talks