Future

Future

Many years ago

Id dreamt

About where we all would go

When the future comes

Where do we all go?

One day I decided to

Create a machine that would take me to

The future

When I opened the door

I saw something I’d never before

My dreams were alive

I could see and feel them subside

The rhythm of life has truly changed

All the people were so strange

They all wore blue and yellow shoes

They all ate cats and played kazoos

I walked around merely looking for fun

My man was there and she told me sum

She told me the story of how

I took her there

In my machine of timely scare

Many times ago she stared

My life had come in gone I stared

She opened her arms and soon I saw

Now people had no arms

Just claws

No wishing

No hoping

I held on close to my mind coping

I ran to my machine and hopped in

To close my eyes

Shut and tearing’

As I reached for the lever I realized…

I’m in bed now

Where did it all go?

Where do we all go? X3

The history of Red

In Linda Hogan’s Poem “The History of Red” there is duality encased within the dynamic nature of red. This is because when one wonders of the color red they ponder death and blood, merely destruction or creation. Hogan starts the poem in complete darkness, mentioning black as the only color; then she digresses away from the darkness to a new life or red “creation”.  This is a symbolic motif because red is a reoccurring theme but the symbolism changes in each example. The dynamic nature of “red” in this poem is necessary in order to portray the universal idea; because without having this duality between two concepts being conveyed the universal idea wouldn’t be strong.  The universal idea communicated through this poem is that the color red itself does not simply serve to imply or show one meaning or mood; because red can represent creation or destruction, as aforementioned. The color red is shown as magmatic of creation in line 19 which says, “Wearing the red, wet mask of birth,” But, red is also shown as ravaging in lines such as; line 28 “red is the fear”, line 46 “they divined the red shadows of leeches”, line 58 “as the red feather of war” and line 61 “and red was the soldier”.  Thus, the overall universal idea serves to explain that although red usually is associated with death and despair it can also be associated with happiness and joy.

My song creation:Far

FAR

So close to me

Yet so far away,

So close I see

But I can’t see your face,

When you’re so far away

I don’t know how to say this;

I love you



You’re in the Atlantic…

Ocean

And I’m here floating in the Pacific Ocean

Looking for you



And you’re like Africa

Always looking for some new way to stay

To stay X2

And I’m like the Galapagos

Separated by the water

That creates new creations



And were are a cloud filled sky

Awaiting a storm that will not die

I look up and see reflections,

Of my heart

In the nights rains and tears

Oh so many times

I’ve felt the worlds collide



So close to me

Yet so far away,

So close I see

But I can’t see your face,

When you’re so far away

I don’t know how to say this;

I love you

Backmasking and reverse speech

In my opinion, backmasking and speech reverse are two completely controversial ideas. Backmasking is simply playing a message backwards that is meant to be played forward. Backmasking does not require any knowledge or purpose because if you play anything backwards it is backmasking.This idea is good and all but the hidden message is never intentional  in his context, unlike reverse speech.

The idea of reverse speech is the same type of idea that; subconsciously, humans speak in a forward manner but the language is bi-level and contains a second message when reversed. Reverse speech implies that humans have a greater understanding of theses words and how they sound in reverse in order to portray some hidden idea or concept. This is brought up in many conspiracies and debates about such things. This concept is harder to follow or understand than backmasking because there is so much more to it.

    There are many accusations of backmasking and reverse speech in songs that allude to satin. This includes “break on through” by The Doors that originally says “ treasure’s there” which in reverse says “I am Satan”. This is interesting because the original song has nothing to do with satan and that is why one could ponder that it is a secret hidden message. I can hear the reverse clearly which doesn't completely sway my opinion but  one could think it is more so than others that you can hardly make out what is supposedly being said such as in Lady Gaga’s song “Paparazzi”  which I can hardly tell what is being said but it is supposed to say (reversed) “Evil save us! These stars above, above... we model it on the arts of Lucifer.” I do not agree that this is backmasking because the words are not coherent enough to tell. An example i really appreciated was Hotel California because I personally know this song well and the eagles supposedly had the hidden message of “ Satan he hears this. He had me believe in him.” which seems so peculiar to me. This reverse along with the one for “Paparzzi” were hard to figure out.

Classwork : Pink Floyd VS Boston

“Rock n’ rolls band” by Boston                                  
Tone- reminiscent
3 devices:
Local color
-“dancing’ in the streets of Hyannis”
-“playing’ for a week in Rhode Island”
- “just another band out of Boston”
Imagery
-“everybody’s waiting’\ getting’ crazy”
-“people stood in line”
-“on the car radio”
Characterization
-“he smoked a big cigar”
-“playing all the bars”
-“sleeping in our cars”
-“we barely made enough to survive”









“Have a cigar” by Pink Floyd
Tone- dogmatic
3 devices:
Hyperbole:
-“I’ve always had deep respect”
-“which ones Pink?”
-“riding the gravy train”
-so happy we can hardly count”
-“everybody else is just green”
“You’re never gonna die”
Characterization:
-“have a cigar”
-“if we pull together as a team”
-we’re just knocked out”
Point of view:
-“you’re gonna go far”

Jack Johnson's "Monsoon"

                                                Amanda Paulhus

                                                                                                                                                3/23/11

Making ironic comparisons in his song “Monsoon”, Jack Johnson combines naturalistic hyperbole, personifying imagery, and playful pun in order to share his idea that “time never waits”.

Hyperbole, an exaggeration made for effect, is used often in pieces of music. Jack Johnson utilizes hyperbole that pertains to nature in his song “Monsoon”.  Johnson creates hyperbole when he sings “if the moon / can turn the tides it can pull the tears/ and take them from our eyes”. This hyperbole exaggerates how the moons presence changes the tides in saying it can do more; because this is personifying the moon, a piece of nature. Johnson also uses hyperbole as a paradox when he says “focusing on nothing so now everything is clear”; because nothing and everything are contradictory. Jack exaggerates life when he sings “all of life/ is in one drop of the ocean”. In this line he makes a derogatory exaggeration in saying that something as large as “all of life” could be held in something so small as ‘one drop of the ocean”. Though his use of hyperbole is lacking it is still an important aspect of the song.

Imagery is language that evokes sensory images. Johnson combines imagery that pertains to both sight and hearing in his song “Monsoon”. He appeals to ones hearing sense when singing “sonny do you hear the sound” because this causes you to picture either the two people having a conversation or the sound itself.  When Johnson uses both hyperbole and personification with “the moon “it creates imagery of “the moon [turning] the tides” and “[pulling] the tears /from our eyes”. These instances also create natural imagery of the ocean and the tides rolling in. Jack creates subtle imagery of someone walking “in amazement stumbling through the day” and this idea of the person seeming to be “waiting to go home”. The imagery throughout the song changes continuously.

The manipulation of words to create clever relationships between language and ideas is wordplay. Pun, a play on words in which multiple interpretations of a given word are possible, is used along with wordplay in Jack Johnson’s song “Monsoon”. Pun and wordplay are used often together.  The one pun Johnson uses throughout the song is “monsoon-er” because it sounds as if he were saying soon. Another instance of wordplay is when John sings “show me that there’s more than the mean time”. “Mean time” is a pun because time itself cannot be mean or rude.  Though pun is not used all that much in his song, Johnson made a god attempt and the wordplay truly adds to the meaning of his song “monsoon”.

Jack Johnson uses many literary devices in his song “Monsoon” In order to portray his true ideas. Making ironic comparisons in his song “Monsoon”, Jack Johnson combines naturalistic hyperbole, personifying imagery, and playful pun in order to share his idea that “time never waits”.