Ryder Adams Mrs. Holliday H English 10 4/6/2023 Anagrams, Hallucinating, and Poems The novel Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds is a story about the life experiences of a young man, Will, as a teenager in the hood. He is determined to get revenge for his brother, who was murdered. This novel tells the story of his experience finding out his brother was murdered and then going to avenge him. The Long Way Down is an excellent read, in my opinion, due to its poetic composition and descriptive, minute-long format.
Instrumentally, the album explores a kind of gray area between synthpop and R&B - tracks like the captivatingly punchy “[9-6] slack-jaw” bounce to a beat, while deeper cuts “Moon Sugar” and “Love Streams” tend to slow down and fall on the more intimate side of Yellen’s reportoire. Ivywild has an interesting grasp on synthpop; Yellen’s take on the genre is full of diffracted samples and reverbed vocals, with artfully placed guitar lines here and there. Strings are used as embellishment, and even Country Sleep’s old moonlit acoustic guitar makes a few appearances. Nothing stands above the rest, but almost all of Ivywild’s songs occupy an area hard not to like - aesthetically pretty synthpop, with pleasantly frayed
The first sounds heard in the song are that of instruments: guitar and drums. After the guitar and drums there is a synthesizer of a heart machine flat-lining in the background. This section also includes some sound effects that really give the music character. When the line “she’s a flatliner” is sung, it sounds as though they recorded it in a hospital room with a heart machine flat-lining in the background really giving the song some depth. This happens again later in the next scene with the line, “she’s a flatliner”.
The same way, disorder means damnation. In both of the masterpieces we find the same way in conceiving coordinates and juxtaposing politics and religion, empire and church. Analogous is the way to express certain forces of nature, intimate qualities of the spirit, sublimation or degeneration of senses through animals. Dante’s Comedy and the mosaic of Otranto teem with animals and monsters: dogs, wolves, dragons, lions, sphinxes, griffins, centaurs, etc. We find all of these representations in both of the works and with the same meaning, same analogies, and same functions.
There are fundamental questions that are posed in everyone’s life. The most asked, as well as the most daunting one is perhaps what happens when we die, and what is heaven like? Billy Collins in his poem “Question About Angels”, attempts to pose and answer such questions. As the poem is a statement on the outlook of how religion in interpreted, and how angels are perceived through the use of repetition, symbolism, and irony. Billy Collins attempts to show the reader a sense of mystery and unfamiliarity that leads to chaos when he is trying to describe how angels are perceived.
In fact, overall, the guitar - high pitched when playing alone, while grave and perfectly following Hendrix 's voice while he sings - sounds as it would like to mutely communicate the melancholy of the lyrics and the meaning of the song . The electric guitar also has one other crucial role in the song: during every verse (0:18-0:52; 1:10-1:43; 2:49-3:23), it fills the voids left by the vocals, which, after every sentence, take a brief pause . The guitar-lyrics alternation feels as though Hendrix is trying to communicate, with music, what words fail to - or cannot - say. The lyrics of the first verse prove exceptionally interesting when analyzed both alone and accompanied by the instruments. In particular, the first verse is the recount of a conversation between a joker and a thief, archetypal of society rejection, where the joker argues that "there must be some kind of way outta here" (verse 1).
In Benj Pasek and Justin Paul’s song “Waving Through A Window”, Benj Pasek is acting as a Highschool boy named Evan Hansen in the Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen and sings about his rough time to try to fit in among his peers with his anxiety in High School. The song is saying that he is still trying to fit in with his peers now and in the past. The theme of Evan’s anxiety and his awkwardness is highlighted by metaphors in the song. First, the lyrics “I’ve learned to slam on the brake/ before I even turn the key” shows that Evan is taking precautions before he lets himself make a mistake because he is afraid to put himself out there.
The argument about the dwindling deer population makes incorrect assumptions based on perfunctory findings. Until more information regarding the actual and previous population of the deers, scientific investigation of the cause of these supposed deaths, or the effects of global warming are obtained; the argument fails to make a coherent case to implicate global warming. The primary assumption that the argument makes are that the reports from the local hunters are accurate. While there is no reason to believe that the hunters purposefully botched the data, this information should be used as a precursor for a more thorough investigation.
Instruments are introduced at the beginning of new sections, such as the pre-chorus and chorus. Dynamics each verse begins in mp and increases dynamically to mf at the pre-chorus; there is a slow crescendo to f during the transition from pre-chorus to chorus. Tempo the tempo of this song is moderato at approximately 116 bpm, however it feels much slower due to the emphasis being on the 2nd and 4th beats rather than on the 1st and 3rd.
This recording is a classic and inspiring example of the sweetness of pop, the passionate vigor of soul, and the groovy feel of R&B. There are many compositional techniques used to convey message in this song. First there is the bass guitar, which provides the melody throughout the song. It begins with a low pitch, and gradually increases until a climactic rise in the mood of the song during the chorus. This could be a representation of being at the lowest point in life, only to rise from the ashes.
In Ireland, Tuesday's Grace The newspaper column “In Ireland, Tuesday’s Grace” written by Bono and published by The New York Times in 2010, deals with the Saville report being published. Bono, who’s the lead singer of the band U2 from Ireland, has his say on the matter in the column. Bono is Irish and therefore he will remember the day called Bloody Sunday forever. David Cameron held a speech, in which he described the incident as “unjustified”. Bono commentates on this speech and the fact that David Cameron said he was sorry for what happened, by asking a rhetorical question; “Thirty-eight years did not disappear in an 11-minute speech — how could they, no matter how eloquent or heartfelt the words?”.
A Step from Heaven accurately depicts several struggles that immigrants commonly face when coming to America. One of the first obstacles Young Ju must resolve is the language barrier – she knows absolutely no English and cannot communicate with her teacher or the other students. Although she learns quickly in school, her parents do not have the opportunity to learn much English at all. This situation is true for many immigrant children who are forced into the position of translator, which puts a lot of pressure on them because they must constantly help their parents navigate simple situations. Young Ju’s parents also must deal with the financial issue that many immigrants face.
Prince left the arrangement beautifully naked, yanking out the bass line to emphasize his signature synth and hypnotic drum machine. It started with an arresting fanfare of disoriented rock guitar, and a classical keyboard run ended the song on a revelatory high. He stacked several vocal tracks together, bringing the many voices in his head into one harmonic melody. The coiled tension of the stark music placed the focus on his deeply personal lyric, one that haunted you with its shadowy glimpses into a struggling
Piano and violins are in line with each other while the horn steadily plays offbeat in the ' 'though she feels as if she 's in a play. Through out the song, both string and horns come in without us noticing until the mood
– she switches to a B melody: “And there was music…”. After one instance of the B melody, she returns to the A melody with a different set of lyrics: “There was love…”. After that, there is an instrumental break where the strings play the B melody. She then repeats the A melody with the second set of lyrics. The song ends with an 8-bar outro, near the end of which
