Happy Dreams Of Murder Poem

“Poetry, once a preeminent form of entertainment, has long since receded to the far, dusty corners of popular culture” (Giggs). Music and poetry have forever been connected. They follow the same poetic devices because music is based on poetry. Over time, poetry has become a lesser-appreciated art form because of the popularity of music. Music has evolved, while poetry has been fairly stagnant for a long time. With the use of metaphors, free verses, assonances, and its cultural influences, the song “Bang Bang” by Green Day is more artistic and poetic than the poem “Happy Dreams of Murder” by Beau Golden. Using different tones and themes, both the song and the poem can cover the problem of gun violence in society. Both the song and the poem …show more content…
The poem uses tone to show how the speaker is feeling, in this case, anger. The poem uses words like “dreams” and “pleasure” to convey how twisted the narrator is. It allows the reader to see how someone would be affected and how they respond to gun violence. The poem uses an AABB rhyme scheme to create rhythm in most stanzas. In the second stanza, the lines end in bat, that, stop, then drop in that order. The poem uses an iambic meter of varying lengths in each stanza. It’s used to create a more flowing style that’s easy to read. It helps the poem flow through the …show more content…
While poetry used to be extremely popular, music has taken over the art form. “Unless you're a literary scholar or a subscriber to The New Yorker, it's not easy. That's because poetry, once a preeminent form of entertainment, has long since receded to the far, dusty corners of popular culture” (Giggs). One of the few reasons poetry stays alive to this day is because of how songs and poetry are connected. Songs have become the modern form of poetry, since music has become so popular, as Matthew Zapruder said in the Boston Review, “Many musical artists present their song lyrics as poetry” (Zapruder). Songs are also used to create stories to fill the creative holes that poetry used to. Poetry used to be something that people created for fun, but now they have this stigma surrounding them. “Poetry has gone from being something that you did in order to Write Your Name Large Across the Sky and sound your barbaric yawp and generally Shake Things Up to a very carefully gated medium that requires years of study and apprenticeship in order to produce meticulous, perfect, golden lines that up to ten people will ever voluntarily read” (Petri). Songs are able to bridge that gap between the average person and