Wyatt: Affirmative Action
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Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Friday, March 3, 2017
free post
This post is totally random but I had nothing else to write about so... here goes.
Is it really a coffee habit if I'm not dependent? I'm not sure. Is it possible to drink as much coffee as me and not become dependent? Still not sure. Am I causing myself trouble in the future by doing this? Even more not sure. But all I know is that coffee tastes really really good, and I don't want to stop drinking it. So coffee addictions aside, I think I'm going to keep on drinking it.
song
She Loves You by the Beatles.
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/beatles/shelovesyou.html
I have determined that analyzing poetry is not my strong suit. That said, I think a couple of these "techniques" I found might be a little shaky, but I think that's mostly left to how its interpreted.
I found several different techniques in this song, but the most unusual one I found was anaphora. When I think of anaphora, I usually think of a pledge, or an oath. "We will do this. We will do that. We will honor this. We will pledge to do that." And et cetera. But this anaphora is smooth, very different from the harsh anaphora I'd seen before. It's the repetition of the phrase "she loves you" at the beginning of every other line in all but three verses, when it say, "She loves you/and you know that can't be bad/she said she loves you/and you know you should be glad."
Another thing that goes on is sibilance. This occurs every time the words "She says she loves you" are sung. (She says she loves you). There is a hyperbole when they sing "she almost lost her mind." I know this doesn't count because it's end rhyme, but the rhyme scheme is ABAB for all standard verses and the chorus. the intro, bridge, and conclusion don't follow this pattern.
The last two things are the ones I consider to be really shaky. This is because it is left entirely to how a person looks at these words. The first is euphony in the verses. In verse one, they sing, "You think you lost your love/Well I saw her yesterday." I hear this as euphony because of the "oo" and "eh" sounds that are repeated and because of the sibilance in line one. And although the words themselves can be viewed as sad, the syllables are smooth. And the last thing I noticed was personification. This is when they sing, "Pride can hurt you too." I view this as personification, because I think they're referencing the fact that the person who they're singing to hurt the girl. I think that it's a karma thing.
But then again, its all based on the connotation.
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/beatles/shelovesyou.html
I have determined that analyzing poetry is not my strong suit. That said, I think a couple of these "techniques" I found might be a little shaky, but I think that's mostly left to how its interpreted.
I found several different techniques in this song, but the most unusual one I found was anaphora. When I think of anaphora, I usually think of a pledge, or an oath. "We will do this. We will do that. We will honor this. We will pledge to do that." And et cetera. But this anaphora is smooth, very different from the harsh anaphora I'd seen before. It's the repetition of the phrase "she loves you" at the beginning of every other line in all but three verses, when it say, "She loves you/and you know that can't be bad/she said she loves you/and you know you should be glad."
Another thing that goes on is sibilance. This occurs every time the words "She says she loves you" are sung. (She says she loves you). There is a hyperbole when they sing "she almost lost her mind." I know this doesn't count because it's end rhyme, but the rhyme scheme is ABAB for all standard verses and the chorus. the intro, bridge, and conclusion don't follow this pattern.
The last two things are the ones I consider to be really shaky. This is because it is left entirely to how a person looks at these words. The first is euphony in the verses. In verse one, they sing, "You think you lost your love/Well I saw her yesterday." I hear this as euphony because of the "oo" and "eh" sounds that are repeated and because of the sibilance in line one. And although the words themselves can be viewed as sad, the syllables are smooth. And the last thing I noticed was personification. This is when they sing, "Pride can hurt you too." I view this as personification, because I think they're referencing the fact that the person who they're singing to hurt the girl. I think that it's a karma thing.
But then again, its all based on the connotation.
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Saturday, February 18, 2017
Poem
I used end rhyme, rhyme scheme, and this is a narrative. This isn't on the list of poetry terms, but this poem is a limerick. Or really two limericks put together I guess.
Eating a little peach
Thinking of times
When there were no more rhymes
For me to use in my speech.
When the time came I was ready
I could keep my voice quite steady
I feared I would fail
Speaking with no avail?
But in truth it was over already
A Strange Story Full of Vocab Words
I'm just going to apologize for this before you even read it....
One day, after taking a slew of tests, I walked along the road on the way to the inception of a friend of mine. Although she had reckless tendencies, she was accepted into a sorority. On the way, I met a wandering rogue who desperately craved some excitement, for he too had just taken a large haul of tests. I conceded that I would rather go do something fun than go to a dull inception, so I canceled my rendezvous with my friend (which caused a great deal of strife between us).
We sauntered along until we saw a funny little man soliciting sky diving sessions. We recklessly went and did it. Halfway through the sky, I discovered that my parachute was faux! What a grievance. I was certainly in jeopardy. Did they not know that selling faux parachutes was prohibited?
Luckily, the rogue saved me. When we landed, we went on a crusade against the man that gave me the faux chute. We indicted him of attempted murder, and that resulted in the seizure of his license to sell parachutes, and his incarceration.
One day, after taking a slew of tests, I walked along the road on the way to the inception of a friend of mine. Although she had reckless tendencies, she was accepted into a sorority. On the way, I met a wandering rogue who desperately craved some excitement, for he too had just taken a large haul of tests. I conceded that I would rather go do something fun than go to a dull inception, so I canceled my rendezvous with my friend (which caused a great deal of strife between us).
We sauntered along until we saw a funny little man soliciting sky diving sessions. We recklessly went and did it. Halfway through the sky, I discovered that my parachute was faux! What a grievance. I was certainly in jeopardy. Did they not know that selling faux parachutes was prohibited?
Luckily, the rogue saved me. When we landed, we went on a crusade against the man that gave me the faux chute. We indicted him of attempted murder, and that resulted in the seizure of his license to sell parachutes, and his incarceration.
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