Anyone good in English???

Question

I need help with an oral! We are supposed to choose a song - any song - and compare it with a poem - any poem - ... Does anyone have any ideas as to which two i could possibly use?? Or even if you know a really good song or poem that means something to you.....it would be greatly apreciated!

Answer 1

My favorite Emily Dickinson poem:

Part Four: Time and Eternity

LXIX



"One need not be a chamber to be haunted,  

One need not be a house;  

The brain has corridors surpassing  

Material place.  

  

Far safer, of a midnight meeting        

External ghost,  

Than an interior confronting  

That whiter host.  

  

Far safer through an Abbey gallop,  

The stones achase,          

Than, moonless, one’s own self encounter  

In lonesome place.  

  

Ourself, behind ourself concealed,  

Should startle most;  

Assassin, hid in our apartment,          

Be horror’s least.  

  

The prudent carries a revolver,  

He bolts the door,  

O’erlooking a superior spectre  

More near. "    

The poem tells how the inner self of a person can be much more frightening than any ghost or robber, and how looking at your own feelings can be pretty scary.

I'll try to think of a related song, but any song on introspection would work. I don't listen to much modern music, so anything I listed would be dated.

This one could work - an oldie, though:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xuNYEUYtD8c&f...

Or how about "Richard Cory", the poem -

http://wordinfo.info/words/index/info/vi...

and the same song by Simon & Garfunkel?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=euuCiSY0qYs&f...

Answer 2

"Do not go gentle into that good night"  - poem by Dylan Thomas

"Let Me Die in My Footsteps"  song by Bob Dylan

Answer 3

ou could compare Shelley's "Ozymandias" to Emerson Lake and Palmer's song "Lucky ManI." Irony figures prominently in

both.

OZYMANDIAS

I  met a traveller from an antique land

Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,

Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown

And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command

Tell that its sculptor well those passions read

Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,

The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.

And on the pedestal these words appear:

`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:

Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,

The lone and level sands stretch far away

LUCKY MAN

He had white horses

And ladies by the score

All dressed in satin

And waiting by the door

Ooooh, what a lucky man he was

Ooooh, what a lucky man he was

White lace and feathers

They made up his bed

A gold covered mattress

On which he was laid

Ooooh, what a lucky man he was

Ooooh, what a lucky man he was

He went to fight wars

For his country and his king

Of his honor and his glory

The people would sing

Ooooh, what a lucky man he was

Ooooh, what a lucky man he was

A bullet had found him

His blood ran as he cried

No money could save him

So he laid down and he died

Ooooh, what a lucky man he was

Ooooh, what a lucky man he was

Answer 4

I know a song, it is by the SUGERBABES. it is called UGLY.

it is bout people callin others ugly

Answer 5

wont go to home without you by maroon 5 and I dont now any poem,

Answer 6

ummm maybe you could try christina aguilera: im ok and carol anne duffys poem we remember your child hood well. They can both be related to physical/mental abuse...