Using the lyrics of your chosen song, answer the following questions IN FULL SENTENCES as a comment in the box below.
1) What is the name of the song? Who is the composer?
2) What is your song about?
3) What is the purpose of the composer in this song?
4) What is the predominant mood or emotion of the song?
5) What poetic techniques (3) can you identify in the poem? Why are they used?
HOW SUCCESSFUL IS THIS POEM AS SOCIAL COMMENT? Answer this final question using the P.E.E.R acronym as a guide to structure.
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ReplyDeleteThe name of the song is Friends Will be Friends. The artist of this song is Queen. The song is explaining about friendship and the positive things about it. Freddie Mercury (Lead singer) wrote this song dedicated to all of his friends because he loved them and they helped him out. The predominant mood of the song is calm and relaxed, and very thankful. Three poetic techniques in this poem are:
ReplyDeleteEnd rhyme - used to sound good.
Alliteration - used to sound good.
Rhythym - used to sound good.
Claude Kelly - Alone
ReplyDelete1.It is about teenagers, never home, the world is falling apart.
2.The purpose of the composer is to show that the times are changing and so is discipline on teenagers.
3.The composer looks at himself all alone being the only one in the world that has respect to his family.
4.The mood and emotion of the song is normal tempo, the emotion is sad, showing the disrespect in the world of teenagers.
5.
i) Rhyme:
"I never really been the to be superstitous
and i wouldn't say the i'm super religous"
ii)Repitions:
"Am I all alone.
Am I all alone.
Is there anybody out there hearing my song.
Is anybody home.
Is anybody home. "
iii)First person: "I'm kind of worried about the world that we live in"
1) Coolio is the artist of the song Gangsta's Paradise.
ReplyDelete2) The song gangsta’s paradise is about, we live in a world which is run by the enemy.
3) The composer’s purpose of this song is to tell us that we are killing ourselves, we need to change our ways in order to live on.
4) The predominant mood of the song is passionate about what he is saying to us.
5) 3 techniques are :
• Rhyme – it is used to continue the flow of the poem
• Repetition – to emphasis his meaning of the song
Remember I don't need you to post the lyrics of the song, just your answers to the questions.
ReplyDeletePlease ensure also that you identify your answers with references to the questions they address.
1) What is the name of the song? Who is the composer?
ReplyDeleteThe name of the song is White America, composed by Eminem.
2) What is your song about?
This song is talking about the discriminative, negative and senseless side of America, things such as government, children, law, race, military, school and suburban gangs.
3) What is the purpose of the composer in this song?
Eminem composed this song because to talk about America both positively and negatively, and for the sake of his career.
4) What is the predominant mood or emotion of the song?
The predominant mood/emotions of this song were negative and somewhat offensive and descriptive, but the mood changed at the very last sentence in the song “hahaha! I'm just playing America, you know I love you”.”
5) What poetic techniques (3) can you identify in the poem? Why are they used?
Enjambment – The song is not finished its remark towards “America”
Rhyme – To add rhythm and makes the song more enjoyable
Slang – Adds modernism.
HOW SUCCESSFUL IS THIS POEM AS SOCIAL COMMENT? Answer this final question using the P.E.E.R acronym as a guide to structure.
The song was called White America composed by Eminem. This song talks about the negative side of America e.g. Law, Government, School, Suburban Gangs and the Military. A quote the support my answer would be “hahaha! I'm just playing America, you know I love you.” This tells me that he doesn’t mean it and just teasing America just for the fun of it; even so he does take the joke seriously. This is one of the best song I ever heard (it is probably the first Eminem song I’ve listened to). Again, this song talks about the somewhat discriminative and offensive America, but that doesn’t change my mind about listening to this song for the millionth time.
Jamie could not post so we did it together
ReplyDelete1) My life, the game and lil Wayne
2) The song is about a man that is discriminated against because of this skin colour. He is brought up in a society with drugs, guns and murder and is forced into taking part of the rough life style to survive.
3) “Looking to find, A way, Through the day, A Light, For the night’’ , ‘’Dear Lord, you’ve done took so many of my people but I’m just wonderin’ why, You haven’t taken (my life? x3)’’, ’’Ain't no bars, but niggas can't escape the hood” are only a few of the things describing the hardship with which he has groun up with and now still has to deal with in a place where he cant excape.
4) The predominant mood in the song is the distressing ,miserable and moving for the pirson and people that are in his position.
5) Rhyme, firs person narration and enjambment are the 3 poetic techniques that are used in this song.
1. The name of this song is “Supertramp - The Logical” and the composer who composed this song is Roger Hodgson
ReplyDelete2. This song is about a boy who was happy when he was a child (When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful a miracle oh it was beautiful, magical) then he was taken away to be educated (but then they sent me away to teach me how to be sensible, logical, responsible, practical) , then he is saying that he has no freedom (now watch what you say or they’ll be calling you radical, liberal, fanatical, criminal) and at the end of the song he is not sure on who he is (but please tell me who I am).
3. The purpose of the composer is to inform us on how society doesn’t see us in an equal way, the composer says that how schools teach us how to do these things (sensible, logical, intellectual, cynical) without knowing our true background and how we feel towards it.
4. The predominant mood of this poem changes, at first the mood is all joyful and cheerful and high in spirit then about the 4th stanza and onwards the mood changes dramatically onto a depressing tone, almost like your being forced to do something and he is unsure of who he actually is.
5. The three poetic techniques that can be identified in this poem are: personification – (the birds singing happily) used to exaggerate the happy scenario that is current taking place, First person narration – used to show that he is explaining his own life and make it feel more of a sense of intimacy, and rhyme (joyfully, playfully watching me) – used to add rhythm to the poem and make it sound better and to put emphasis on the idea.
1)The name of the song is Bed Intruder and is composed by the schmoyoho’s youtube channel.
ReplyDelete2)The song is about rapists’ attacking families and entering bedrooms.
3)The purpose of this song is to alert families about unwanted intruders that enter your bedroom and attack you in bed and also how auto tune is awesome.
4)The predominant mood of the song is apathy because the song is a parody of a news’ interview.
5)The poetics techniques that can be identified in the song are slang, repetition and 1st person language.
Slang – “errbody”: the use of slang is relevant for the relation of modern society and also to notify listeners that the singer failed his english exams.
Repetition – “Hide your kids, Hide your wife”: used for the urgency for people to follow this action. 1st Person – “You”: 1st person is used because it makes the listeners feel like they are the culprit.
Social Comment
ReplyDeleteWho has time to worry about the boogie man under your bed when there is a rapist sleeping with you!? As anyone with logical thinking would know, the boogie man isn’t real but a rapist is (that is why it is safe to assume that Option B is more likely to happen in anyone’s lifetime). “He climbed through our windows” and into our ears the overnight sensation, Antoine Dodson released a song about bed intruders which became the viral video of the month with over 17 million views on YouTube. The bed intruder song is an auto tuned version of the interview that Antoine Dodson had with his local television network about how a rapist reportedly raped his sister, Kelly. With America having the world’s highest crime rate, it isn’t surprising that the above scenario happened, that is why this song is not so informative about rapists and the amount of crimes being committed in society because its sole purpose was to mock Antoine Dodson. Rape is nothing short of serious but coming from this ghetto witness, we’ll let it slide. But seriously, rape isn’t funny o-o.
1)The name of the following song that I’m going to be discussing is “Boom!” written by the band System of a Down.
ReplyDelete2)“Four thousand hungry children leave us per hour from starvation, while billions are spent on bombs creating death showers.”
This whole sentence extracted from the 2nd verse of the song describes the uselessness of bombs and warfare and compares how thousands of families and children are dying from starvation and poverty when billions are spent creating weapons of mass destruction and bombs.
3)The underlying purpose of this song was meant as a protest against the war in Iraq and to show that war is not the only way to solve problems but grooms this world in blood. “Every time you drop the bomb, you kill the god your child has born.”
This song can be also stated to mankind fighting wars for the sake of wealth and other material gains while coming up with great reasons for it.
4)The predominant mood in this song is shown in an aggressive way and total anger in order to show the audience that they had enough of politics and all the bull-crap they’ve been fed by the government and society.
5-Repetition “BOOM”
The repetition of “BOOM” is because they wanted it to be highlighted so it draws the audience’s attention to show them what our society is all about nowadays.
-First Person “I’ve been walking through your streets”
Shows us that the writer he has seen everything and all the lies that were meant to be the contrary.
-Rhetorical Question “Why must we kill our own kind?”
Emphasizes that the writer is confused in a negative way asking himself: “why are we doing this?”
(In the First person analysis)"The writer has seen everything" without "he" *
ReplyDeleteMy apologies