Out of all of the words in the English dictionary I choose rain, because I really like rain, but realized I knew nothing about the actual word, like whether it had any deeper meaning than just water from the sky or not. I found out a lot about the actual word in my research, which I looked through dictionaries and thesauruses, but took it further looking through the bible and Quran finding versus with the word and found proverbs and quotes that give the word a new meaning but that’s just the first half of the research. Then I looked at different poems, a magazine article about recent events in Louisiana, I interviewed a few classmates, and lastly looked through songs and at different pieces of art work and got a different angle of the word
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Like in The April Rain song by Langston Hughes, it kind of makes you fall in love the rain without realizing it, with the way he uses words like lullaby and silver liquid drops in his poem. However he does use the rain very repetitively in his poem where he loses some of his meaning unlike in April Rain by William Buchanan where the word is used only twice. April Rain gives off a more energetic vibe than the April Rain Song does, letting light to a whole other perspective to …show more content…
I did however find an article from New York Times, called Louisiana and Mississippi Check Damage After Heavy Rain and Flooding Published March, 12th 2016 that was interesting. The article hit close to home for me because a few of my friends, I’ve known for quite a while lost their homes in this particular flood. Unlike in the poems this article doesn't sheds light on the good it does but on devastation rain can bring to people, thousand people were forced to evacuate their homes many of which were then flooded from the heavy down poor of rain.
Body 7 (interviews) On a different note, interviewing different people was interesting; the three gave me pretty much the same answer when asked to define the word rain. When the three were trying to be serious about the interview question Patrick said that it was “liquid that falls from the sky during the water cycle” Jacob and Mike both said the same thing just in a their own way. When I asked them to describe rain in some other way Jacob and Patrick to it to scientific side mentioning things like side rain and if rain on Saturn was possible.
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Like in The April Rain song by Langston Hughes, it kind of makes you fall in love the rain without realizing it, with the way he uses words like lullaby and silver liquid drops in his poem. However he does use the rain very repetitively in his poem where he loses some of his meaning unlike in April Rain by William Buchanan where the word is used only twice. April Rain gives off a more energetic vibe than the April Rain Song does, letting light to a whole other perspective to …show more content…
I did however find an article from New York Times, called Louisiana and Mississippi Check Damage After Heavy Rain and Flooding Published March, 12th 2016 that was interesting. The article hit close to home for me because a few of my friends, I’ve known for quite a while lost their homes in this particular flood. Unlike in the poems this article doesn't sheds light on the good it does but on devastation rain can bring to people, thousand people were forced to evacuate their homes many of which were then flooded from the heavy down poor of rain.
Body 7 (interviews) On a different note, interviewing different people was interesting; the three gave me pretty much the same answer when asked to define the word rain. When the three were trying to be serious about the interview question Patrick said that it was “liquid that falls from the sky during the water cycle” Jacob and Mike both said the same thing just in a their own way. When I asked them to describe rain in some other way Jacob and Patrick to it to scientific side mentioning things like side rain and if rain on Saturn was possible.
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