Dramatic Lyrics

Power and the assertion of control is a prominent theme in Robert Browning's poem My Last Duchess, and by using certain techniques with his writing, he has been able to create a piece that is able to assert its power over the reader itself. Employing tactics such as having a specific tone for the diction used enables the poem to emanate the Duke’s tone of wanting to be the authority in situations. In the opening lines of the poem, the Duke tells the envoy “will’t please [he] sit and look at [the…

Browning creates the impression that love is a destructive force. The narrator kills Porphyria because of his love for her, commenting how her devotion ‘made my heart swell’ so he ‘wound’ her hair around her throat and ‘strangled her’. Literally, the narrator means he was overcome by his adoration for Porphyria and decided to show that by ending her life, as well as how Porphyria’s sincere confession has gotten her killed. These acts of love both clearly show how disastrous love can be.…

Porphyria’s Lover by Robert Browning is a twisted plot, because at the end of the poem the speaker is the killer. Porphyria’s Lover is a dramatic monologue; the speaker is expressing emotion about his uninvited lover. It’s a dark stormy night and Porphyria enters in the speaker home. Porphyria shut the door to the speaker home and warms his home. Then she grabs the speaker attention by seducing him; she let her damp hair falls on her shoulder and she undress herself. She lets her body speak for…

In Robert Browning’s dramatic monologue “Porphyria’s Lover”, we get a disturbing and unsettling tale of a man who strangles his lover with her own hair. The tone of this tale becomes even more worrying when you take into account the strict, stable meter that underlines the poem creates a weird tension between the murderous act and the way it is presented. The iambic tetrameter that scores the entire prose, breaks form at certain lines throughout the poem, the first break in the form occurs at…

Hamlet’s Revenge The story of Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, is a dramatic tragedy, in which there is a tragic hero that has a character flaw that affects the rest of the characters in a negative way. Tragic hero, an admirable person who has a character flaw that usually ends in suffering for everyone. To start, King Hamlet dies, and then Gertrude, Hamlet's mother, marries Claudius, her brother in law. The ghost of dead king Hamlet appears and informs Prince Hamlet that Claudius, his brother,…

Lyrics enhance music and help listeners interpret a story. Words complement the music. A great song would be one that entrails a person and that holds many dynamics. If used correctly, words are used to place meaning and to enhance the piece. When used incorrectly, it can give off a negative notion. If the words don't give meaning to the piece then it mind as well just be noise. I think this because without proper storytelling it gives no connection for the listener to indulge in. This is why…

Music is the modern day poetry. Music is a tool many people, especially young people, use as a get away. The lyrics in songs are just as meaningful as the words of a poem. Wordsworth’s followers would choose to use music to recreate his style because music is so simple. Wordsworth created his own twist on his work by making it so simple and easy to read. “He set…

move 100 miles per hour. With Elvis making the song faster and more of a rock and roll type of song it lost the soul that the original writer had for the long. This can be seen in the lyrics as well in Thornton version, she sings, "Well they said you was high class, I can see through that." Well, Elvis changed this lyric to "Well they said you was high class, but that was just a lie.” To me when Elvis…

songTo This Day by Shane Koyczan and Never Let Me Go by Jasmine Thomas, and produce a piece of choreography that demonstrates my understanding of similar themes of self worth and love. As I listened to the two songs I found a connection through the lyrics. To this day addresses bullying and how it effects the lives of the victims still today and how it changes them forever. While Never Let Me Go is exploring how she is finally finding some kind of peace from whatever she is going through, and no…

where the lines between good and evil are not only blurred, but practically indiscernible. It is strikingly original musically and lyrically, truly in the distinctive Sondheim style, in that it is extremely cynical and contains highly intellectual lyrics. Additionally, it is deceivingly simple, but lyrically and musically incredibly complicated and sophisticated. It is one of Sondheim’s most popular musicals, appealing to all ages, and is still performed regularly even today, decades after its…