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Country songs are about stories. Every country song has some sort of message or meaning embedded within the lyrics or the music. From Jimmy Rodgers to Johnny Cash, then to George Strait and Garth Brooks, and now Sam Hunt and Brett Eldredge. All country music is just a country boy getting their feelings or stories out there. The song All On Me by Devin Dawson is no exception. All on me is about a guy and a girl. The guy sings to the girl how much he’s willing to do have her love. To gain her love…

Poetry has a very complex and intellectual way of depicting life and the events that occur. They can describe love, hate, lust, anger, and sadness. They capture our inner feelings and our deepest of emotions. In more cases than others they have similar trends to each other. Poetry being that it is an art form, fall under the stereotype of art imitating reality and reality imitating art. Most poets have a trend when writing, which could include theme or genre. Gary Soto is a great example of…

Emily Dickinson has lost several of her friends and her family members so that made the main themes of this poem is about death. Death inform the most of her poetry because she feel frustrated for her lost. ‘’I could not not for death is not exclusive domain of poet or writer. ‘’Because I could not stop for death’’ is very common and standard imaged about death because we commonly refer to differently aspect of our life as a journey. Emily Dickinson compared our life with a journey said that…

In the poem, “In Just,” it talks about a balloonman and how he whistles far and wee. It also mentions how it is spring time and there are children playing. In addition, the author uses words that are not words at all, but are simply made up words. Additionally, the structure of the poem is unusual. The spacing changes as the poem goes; however, the author never breaks four lines then a one-line stanza, even when it goes to one word a line. Therefore, the author maybe going for a light, fun poem,…

“Personism” by Frank O’Hara and “The Poet” by Ralph Waldo Emerson are two texts that convey a theme surrounding poetry and its importance. O’Hara’s text mainly targets those that question poetry whereas Emerson’s text points out that poetry expresses nature and its not the reader but the person who is writing that is able to express what they truly feel. The question that I have for these two texts is during the time period of when O’Hara and Emerson wrote poetry, was there a lot of criticism…

Why did Dudley Randall chose “Ballad of Birmingham”to captivate in poetic form? Well Dudley Randall wrote a poem over “Ballad of Birmingham” instead of story so we can understand what happened on that days, to make us feel emotional while reading this poem, and to make it easier and shorter. Firstly, Dudley Randall wrote this poem so people can understand what/when happen on that day. This poem describe about how this one girl wanted to go see street marching but her mother didn't let…

is at the center of all natural phenomena (Kizner & Mandell, 2012, p.427). Poets utilize rhythm by sometime repeating words, and utilized words that rhyme. Meter is another large aspect of sound and rhythm; it is created by the recurrence of regular units of stressed and unstressed syllables (Kizner & Mandell, 2012, p.429.) Meters, sounds, and rhymes help with the rhythm because it is what appeals a reader. The use of them allows the reader to read a…

Does poetry matter? One of the most debated questions in American literature, a question that even among poets seems to be unable to answer. Poetry is one of the multiple ways that we have to express our emotions and ideas to people, creating a connection in between the reader and the poem. Poetry was one of the most common ways to express our thoughts to the public, and throughout the years, the percentage of Americans that read and write poetry has fallen. Since we have the opportunity to…

since it’s written in first person point view, however, the event that Thoreau describes is two strangers meeting in multiple places such as the speaker’s house and a lane 3 miles away from his house and how they became best friend. The poem has a rhyme scheme pattern of A, A, B, B, C, moreover, it contains 6 stanzas with 5 lines in each stanza also known as quintain. Literary devices or poetry strategies such as imageries appear in the poem makes the poem a more realistic. “I met him in a…

Throughout this unit I read several poems that portrayed freedom in various different ways. These poems all showed aspects of freedom in one way or another. To be more specific, the poems that I really thought depicted freedom are “Dream variations” and “I too” by Langston Hughes. In addition to those is the poem “Sympathy” by Paul Laurence Dunbar. The poem “Dream Variations” written by the poet Langston Hughes shows many examples of the desire for freedom. For instance, this poem mainly is…