An Analysis Of Billy Montana And Helen Darling's Bring On The Rain

Poetry is known to be a creative thought or impassioned feeling using language and is expressed in many places in the world. A poem can have many different meanings according to how an individual interprets it. Various literary devices are used to bring out that interpretation and the sense of what the person thinks that is going to happen. In the poem “Saturday at the Canal” by Gary Soto and “Nothing Better” by The Postal Service the theme is sometimes in life you may go through tough times but it is up to you whether they will continue. Some literary devices that show the coming up from tough times are figurative language, imagery, and the mood of the poems/songs.

Summer Rain is a longer poem than most others written by John Foulcher, which has messages throughout it. Summer Rain is set on a highway during a traffic jam, an experience many people have experienced. The start of the poem sets the scene economically, informing the reader that it is 4 o’clock and that the cars “clutter on the highway”. This gives the reader a visual image of peak hour traffic on a highway, so they can now almost see what is going on

In the song “ when it rains it pours “ by Luke Combs. He sings about luck and happiness after hardship. In the beginning of the song he sings “And by tuesday you could say that girl was good as gone, And when thursday came around i was all alone” ( When It Rains It Pours). Showing he has lost a girl he loved, which is the hardship. But then later in the

Ludacris does a remarkable job of portraying his message about the struggles that some adolescents are faced with. “Runaway Love”, by Ludacris, featuring Mary J. Blige (2007), represents the theme of struggle through hip-hop and rap music. It is about little girls who are “stuck up in the world on their own.” They have to take care of themselves because the people they are around do not care about them. They range from nine to eleven years in age, and their goal in life, at such a young age, is to run away from home. Ludacris is trying to get the listener to realize the struggles that even children have to face because adults are not the only ones who have problems, like most people believe. He is very successful in

But if it rained the story mood would sneak up on Papa. The hiss and tick on the metal of our big living van distracted him from his papers. Rain on a show night was catastrophe. Rain on the road meant talk, which, for Papa, was pure pleasure.

“Stormy Weather” was written in 1933 by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler and first performed by Ethel Waters at the Cotton Club in Harlem. This song captures the very essence of the Great Depression time period, which is why it was selected as one of the first two songs to be played on the mixtape. With lyrics such as “life is bare, gloom and misery everywhere” can showcase Stormy Weather as a representation of the turmoil United States citizens were facing. Ethel Waters voice and the melody of the music do a great job of translating the lyrics is such a way that listeners can envision and relate to the pain and heartache the song is portraying.

Every song has a story to tell, and some contain hidden stories or lessons, while others are completely blatant. In Billy Joel’s song, “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” he does not hesitate to be very obvious with what he tries to prove, which is how all of the events in his song contribute to one large fire. I chose to remediate Joel’s song because it spoke to me with historical context. When researching the song, I read a majority of the history behind it and decided to reflect upon it in a visual picture collage, combining a majority of the elements he mentions with pictures--all circled around a fire in the middle. I decided to also make red-dyed cupcakes reflecting the fire Joel speaks of and ice them with a flame, yet placing an X over it,

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Hurricane Dancers by Margarita Engle is primarily a historical poetic narrative. First off, lots of the pain, emotions, and feelings have been felt in real life. Quebrado may have never walked on planet Earth, but the pain he felt and his desire to be free was experienced by many other people lived the cruel life of a slave:

In 1989 the rap group “Stop the Violence” was formed in response to the violence within the hip hop and African American community. Prior to the groups formation there were two fatal shooting incidents at hip hop concerts and in result the group formed and released a single called “Self Destruction” to touch on violence within the black community and in hopes to help put a stop to the violence. “Self Destruction” closely relates to Craig Werner’s three step process by showing that even though there may be evil within the black community, the African Americans need to find hope and rise above it.

There are many ways in which one can analyze poems with similarities in subject. However, one of the most effective ways is to analyze the poems use of imagery and figurative language that the author uses to dramatize their subject matter. Three poems which can easily be compared through this method are the songs Roar by Katy Perry, Stronger by Kelly Clarkson, and the poem Breaking Free by Angela Wybrow. These three poems all share a similar topic, which is inner strength. Through this topic, the authors use figurative language and other poetic elements to create a work which centers around the theme of finding inner strength to move on from the pain and hardships caused by people in their life, and to move on and live the life that makes them happy.

This immediately changes when the description of the rain evokes the mood of sadness in the reader. To portray a sense of melancholy which is felt when it is raining, the author uses parallel constructions as a stylistic device: "The rain dripped from the palm trees. The water stood in pools on the gravel paths. The sea broke in a long line in the rain and slipped back down the beach to come up and break again in a long line in the rain ". It is noticeable that the nouns rain, pools, and sea belong to one central theme - water. This stylistic device is utilized by the author to create the atmosphere of inevitability. People cannot hide from the rain. Water is everywhere: it is on the ground, it deluges from the sky as though the world is weeping. Complication don’t begin until the American woman sees the cat in the rain.

“Hard rain” can be interpreted as the nuclear atomic rain that is harmful to both the humans and the environment or it can be the storm of rain. This line that is repeated throughout demonstrates how humans cannot control the rain. In addition, hyperboles such as “roar of a wave that could drown the whole world” (Dylan) shows how water are crucial to the human’s survival, but also a danger to the human’s survival because this wave can refer to the deadly tsunami. The personification of the “ seven sad forests” (Dylan) on seven continents also allows the listeners to sympathize with the singer and understand the effects of human activities that are destroying the nature. Furthermore, Dylan uses natural elements such as thunder that is the warning to rain as a warning to the unfortunate and miserable future of the world that will be filled with death and violence (Genius). Dylan’s incorporation of god and nature with death also relates to the later part of his life where he experienced his idol, Woody Guthrie, and himself in near-death situations. (Rollingstone)

I know there must be quite a few of you who remember the song “Sunshine On My Shoulders” by John Denver. The song reached number one on March 30, 1974.

Although this picture and message sounds hopeful, there may be a hidden message to the picture. In simple terms, many people think that the rain is actually pain and rainbow is happiness; however, if you look at the picture deeper, then you can realize something totally different. Rain is not just pain, but rain can be something valuable. Without rain, life wouldn’t exist. Every living thing on earth needs rain to survive. It nourishes all living organisms including plants and it also purifies us from the dirty stains. But at the same time, rain can be detrimental. If there is too much rain, it can cause flooding, which leads to soil erosion, and killing living things by drowning