The song I chose today was “Radioactive” by Imagine Dragons, and it relates to the book, When the Emperor was Divine. The song illustrates the situation of the Japanese Americans during World War II perfectly by showing us the dire actions we took. In the song, people were “checking on to the prison bus,” which reminded me of the Japanese being sent on the trains to the internment camps. Also, the lyrics say that they wake up to “sweat and dust,” just as the little brother described about camps. The words he wrote in dust the night before would be blown away by the new dust penetrating the walls.
Literary Analysis of Anthem One could say that a woman that grew up in a strict, un-individual society would be all for gender equality, but that is not the case for Ayn Rand’s book, Anthem, which shows a very primal, sexist, view of women. Rand shows this view as it evolves throughout the story when Liberty first meets Equality and is a cold, merciless, and unkind woman, to becoming a completely obedient, submissive, servant. The ongoing relationship between Equality and Liberty shows Ayn Rand’s viewpoint on women, that when they are in the presence of an independent man, that they will become submissive. “We found garments and the Golden One gasped at the sight of them”(Rand 91). This is an example of a typical stereotype, that all women are obsessed with clothing and their appearance.
I read an Ethnography called "A Song Of Longing, An Ethiopian Journey", by Kay Kaufman Shelemay. Shelemay gathered a good amount of religious music in a town of Gondar, a city in Ethiopia. The Ethiopian rules and regulations upset her research and ended up studying the Ethiopian Christian service in Addis Ababa. During that time, she met and married a Jewish businessman, Jack Shelemay, from a Middle Eastern (Aden), whose family was permanently settled in Ethiopia. " A Song Of Longing" is not a book that was said it to be, she late changed it and made it about Ethiopian religious music, and also a story of Kaufman 's field experience.
The poems “Richard Cory” by Edward Arlington Robinson and “The Bishop of Atlanta” by Sen. Julian Bond are both timeless. When I read these poems, I was immediately transported into the poets’ visions. The “Cory” poem was written in 1897, but still could be used to describe someone we know today. “The Bishop” poem was written about the late, great Ray Charles, a masterful musician. There are some similarities in these poems, but vast differences.
Theme: Friendship Song: “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” – Randy Newman “You've got a friend in me. You got troubles then I got them too. We stick together, we can see it through cause you've got a friend in me.” Justification: This song relates to the relationship George and Lennie had because even though Lennie was always getting in trouble, George was beside him no matter what. Also, when they got to the ranch, Slim said to them that is not common to see such good friends like George and Lennie, who travel together and look out for each other.
I was going on a trip to Berwyn, Illinois with my family to meet my father’s youngest brother and his family. The trip was quite short, but my uncle had told us to hail a taxi and meet up at the Fitzgerald’s Sidebar, in Berwyn. I didn’t have the slightest idea of the impression of the location we were heading to from the airport until we reached the place. I was in complete shock because a jazz band was playing the style of music that my uncle knew that I was very fond of right in front of us. As we came into the sidebar there were no crowds of people, meaning it was mainly just my family.
Later on, in 1946, Ned Washington would release the song with written lyrics and go on to incorporate the title as part of those lyrics three quarters of the way into the song. In 1947, a version recorded by Harry James and his orchestra would be released to the public. In that recording, there are hardly any solos, the musicians instead performing the song straight forward without variation. The song begins with a rhythm that is carried on by the piano, with occasional violins popping up to declare themselves more and more until the ending, when a soothing acoustic rhythm guitar backs up a hopefully romantic harmonica part. The tempo is never sped up or slowed down except near the end when the violins ease out their final notes, and the pitch
War and protest music comes in many genres, but Creedance Clearwater Revival’s “Fortunate Son” was released in the upbeat, rock manner that society in the 1960s was just becoming familiar with. The music video used is not original, but instead is a collage of videos taken from Vietnam War. The video shows the carnage endured by American soldiers during the battle and demonstrates the realities of war. This work fits the overall theme because although the song does not explicitly mention Vietnam, Creedance Clearwater Revival intended for the song to be seen as a means of protest against U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Many civilians during the 1960s were against the United States entering the war in Vietnam, and males were worried that they would be picked in the draft.
The next stimulus we used was a piece of music from the CD Sacred Spirit. Our class split into two groups: the Sioux people in the village and the American Soldiers in their barracks. The Sioux people were happy and joyful as the previous evening they had been celebrating killing the buffalo, whilst the soldiers were preparing to massacre them. Each of us had our own personality, for example I was a reluctant devout Christian soldier, Sam was eager to kill the Sioux, James was the Sioux chief and Molly B was a Sioux who was washing clothes. We devised this piece with the help of Mrs Allsopp.
Both the Servant and Jeremiah are like sheep "led to slaughter" (Isa. 53:7-8; Jer. 11:19) so that they are cut off "from the land of the living. " Adding to the irony, the disobedient Jonah is delivered from his life-threatening situation and his imprisonment behind the "bars" of the underworld in Jonah 2:6, but the faithful Jeremiah must rest in the promise of an eventual deliverance from the various forms of imprisonment that he experiences
Melody is a young girl who has a mental and physical disabilities, she can 't walk, talk, and has no control of her body. This has made her life very complicated in many ways. Something that is awful about her disability is that Melody is super smart and can 't share this with the world. Melody is mad because her parents and doctors because they think she is just another stupid little kid with no brain. This is truly difficult on her because Nobody is able to understand how smart she is, and why she does what she does.
“Treat other the way you would like to be treated” The Christmas Carol Written by Charles Dickens is a novel that is intended to teach its reader the importance of treating each other, the way one would want to be treated. Also in the book A Christmas Carol Scrooge should have treated his fellow friends with respect because his friend were kind, but Scrooge was not. Scrooge should look back at his past and fix all the things he did wrong. Treating other people without respect could lead to another big problem. For example, he is ignoring his nephew.
“Poetry Is Not a Luxury” (1982) intertwines feminism and poetry together. Author Audre Lorde says that for women, “poetry is not a luxury, but a necessity of our existence” (Lorde, 1982, pg. 281). In today’s society, women’s opinions aren’t really expressed, because it’s not widely accepted in this man-built world. Lorde’s quote “poetry is not a luxury, but a necessity of our existence” means that women should use their voices and channel their energy into poetry. Since poetry is accepted, women aren’t being deviant.
The poem A Step Away From Them by Frank O’Hara has five stanzas written in a free verse format with no distinguishable rhyme scheme or meter. The poem uses the following asymmetrical line structure “14-10-9-13-3” while using poetic devices such as enjambment, imagery, and allusion to create each stanza. A Step Away From Them occurs in one place, New York City. We know this because of the lines, “On/ to Times Square, / where the sign/blows smoke over my head” (13-14) and “the Manhattan Storage Warehouse.”
The final poem of significance is Jazzonia, in which Hughes experiments with literary form to transform the act of listening to jazz into an ahistorical and biblical act. Neglecting form, it is easy to interpret the poem shallowly as a simple depiction of a night-out in a cabaret with jazz whipping people into a jovial frenzy of singing and dancing. But, the poem possesses more depth, when you immerse yourself in the literary form. The first aspect of form to interrogate is the couplet Hughes thrice repeats: “Oh, silver tree!/Oh, shining rivers of the soul!” Here, we see the first transformation.
