Harper Valley Song Analysis

“Tale of Two Citiez” by J Cole is a song featured in his 2015 album “ Forest Hill Drive”.The song is inspired by the book “Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens, the book is set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution some of the themes that the novel focuses on is the conflict between rich and poor. In an interview with Tavis Smiley Cole explains how the song compares two side of Fayetteville; the more prosperous area Forest Hill Drive opposed to the crime-ridden inner city area. In the song Cole speaks about dealing with peer pressure in living in a crime ridden place and trying to find a way out. In Monster, Steve is dealing with living in a crime ridden neighborhood where most kids around his age are into drugs,

I chose “Humble and Kind,” by Tim McGraw as my theme song. “Humble and Kind” is a very good song that has very unique lyrics. The song gives advice on how to live. There are many manners in this song that are very important. The song is a parent telling their child how they should live life. It seems that the artist wrote the song on how he wishes he would have acted when he was younger. One of the main messages of this song are that everyone has something in their lives, but you still need to be nice. Some of the lyrics on the song are about the 10 Commandments. Even though we grow up, we still need to remember our manners and how to live life. “Don’t hold a grudge or a chip and here’s why Bitterness keeps you from flying.” This is an example

In Natasha Trethewey’s poetry collection Native Guard, the reader is exposed to the story of Trethewey’s growing up in the southern United States and the tragedy which she encountered during her younger years, in addition to her experiences with prejudice and to issues surrounding prejudice within the society she is living in. Throughout this work, Trethewey often refers to graves and provides compelling imagery regarding the burial of the dead. Within Trethewey’s work, the recurring imagery surrounding graves evolves from the graves simply serving as a personal reminder of the past, to a statement on the collective memory of society and comments on how Trethewey is troubled with what society has forgotten as it signifies a willingness to overlook the dehumanization of a large group of people.

With every aspect of our lives we are making a point, arguing a belief, or refuting some other aspect of our existence. Aesthetic pieces, most avidly poems and songs, argue a message both in the lyrics and in the meaning posed between the lines. “American Pie,” in a multitude of ways, argues that American lives and memories are closely intertwined with the music of the time period. Not only does “American Pie” argue a message it also pulls many generations together. Today, thirty years after the initial release, “American Pie” still has an effect in our music and continues to be popular with all age groups. Don McLean accomplishes this task through using the context of the time period, placement of words, the words

Whiskey Lullaby is a song sung by Brad Paisley (ft. Alison Krauss) which narrates the story of a soldier coming back from war to find his wife in bed with another man. After this, the man drinks away his life trying to escape the pain until he commits suicide. Then the song continues to talk about how the woman follows down the same path after hearing about his death. In the end of the song they both get buried next to each other which symbolizes how they are finally together. The audience for this country song is those who have served or who have had family members serve. The unexpectedness of how life will figure itself out when the soldiers return. Also, how hard it is for families when their loved ones are out fighting, and they are

We see how these concepts norms, values, structure and social facts, and agency give an understanding to lyrics in a song for society and how the concepts tell the story in the song “Wrong way” by Sublime. Many important factors came from these concepts we have to see the role society (her father, brothers, and narrative) played in Annie’s life and what influenced her choices in life. Symbolic interaction theory effectively explains the narrative in this song because of the different views Annie and him see with her life, that her reality of her life is a good life, and that he does not see it as a good way of life but as a bad road ahead.

Since its inception, country music has proven to be? as a powerful outlet to express the view of the contemporary culture. As a result, the lyrical value of such songs provides listeners an insight to the changing climate of social and political ideologies. During the 60’s defined gender roles dominated social lifestyle and was were? mimicked in music. In recent years, a resurgence of idealistic, stereotypical gender-specific roles have cropped up in country songs, creating a subgenre labelled “bro-country.” Jody Rosen of the New York Times first coined the term “bro-country” in order to describe songs that use lyrical tools idealizing dominant, hegemonic gender roles present in culture. Songs such as Tim McGraw’s “How I’ll Always Be,” Luke Bryan’s “Huntin’, Fishin’, Lovin’, Every Day,” Sam Hunt’s “Make you Miss Me,” and Dierks Bently’s “Different for Girls” use the lyrical discourse, under the lens of “bro-country”, to highlight dominant, male gender-specific roles, while simultaneously reinforcing prominent, often negative, views of women.

Country music has proven as a powerful medium to express the views of the contemporary culture. As a result, the lyrical value of such songs provides listeners an insight to the changing climate of social and political ideologies. During the 1960’s defined gender roles dictated social lifestyles and were mimicked in music. In recent years, a resurgence of idealistic, stereotypical gender-specific roles have cropped up in country songs, creating a subgenre labelled “bro-country.” Jody Rosen of the New York Times first coined the term “bro-country” in order to describe songs that use lyrical tools glorifying prevailing, hegemonic gender roles present in culture. Songs such as Tim McGraw’s “How I’ll Always Be,” Luke Bryan’s “Huntin’, Fishin’, Lovin’, Every Day,” Sam Hunt’s “Make you Miss Me,” and Dierks Bently’s “Different for Girls” use the lyrical discourse, under the lens of “bro-country”, to highlight dominant, male gender-specific roles, while simultaneously reinforcing prominent, often negative, views of women.

Through new technology including the ability to record music, the emergence of Tin Pan Alley, and the immigration boom, America soon developed a new sinful musical culture. 19th Century American Pop music, although tame in today’s standards, was considered to be morally corrupting and created a new naughtier America. In the transition from classical romantic ballads to the syncopated, “blackness” was pop like Ragtime music took quite a large evolution. From the dance halls for the working class, cabaret for the middle class, and high class refined dancing, the explosion of Ragtime music effected all types of Americans. Due to the immigration boom and the introduction of mobility and leisure time, class lines began to blur, causing the middle and working class to bump elbows more often than ever before. Often times, such incidences would occur in entertainment venues like Coney Island or even run of the mill vaudeville shows. Modern music was can be identified by its’ lascivious subject matter, which reflected the evolving ideals of Americans. One song that illustrated this is “I Love My Wife; But Oh, You Kid!”, which spoke of a man’s desire to cheat on his wife, highlighting the new sexually aware younger population. Although it’s tone and composition were similar to earlier, classic, love songs the subject matter and morals

Through the use of Scout’s innocent nature and the words and actions carried out by the townspeople, Harper Lee’s critical tone regarding prejudice is revealed.

one, the interior is mainly solid stone with only a small portion of the overall mass being rooms. This design would make using the pyramids as grain depositories highly unlikely. Its shape isn’t contusive to being used as a granary and we know that the Egyptians had actual granaries, they were bee hive shaped buildings found within Egyptian cities. Furthermore, funerary texts have been found on the inside walls of several pyramids. These texts are often called the Pyramid Texts, and they give instructions to the pharaoh on his journey through the afterlife. Documents that have survived until today refer to the pyramids as the tombs of the pharaohs. For example, in the Harper’s Song of Antef (probably from around the 1st Intermediate Period),

The Shires are a country duet from the UK. The members of this duo are Ben Earle and Crissie Rhodes. The word "shire" is a term meant to describe a British county. The Shires was created in 2013 and by 2015 they released their debut album “Brave”, which propelled the band in the music industry. The band became the first British country act to enter and place in the Top 10 of the UK Albums Chart. The members, Earle and Rhodes, share the leading vocals, but Ben also brings to the table his piano and guitar playing.

Muddy Waters concert opens with Muddy plucking on his electric guitar to the tune of “long distance call” is a slow song with a plea to “please call me on the phone sometime” the others in the band join in. The song ends with a man being told another mule is kickin in your stall. Through it all the band rolls out the same slow rhythm.

For the scene where Hamlet kills Polonius I have selected the song, “I Shot the Sheriff.” Towards the beginning of the song it says this, “Yeah! All around in my home town, They're tryin' to track me down” The man singing the song is telling his story in how people are trying to track him down to arrest him. It shows how Cloudius and the rest of the court are trying to track down Hamlet for killing Polonius. Next, he goes on to defend himself and make a claim. “ But I swear it was in selfdefence.” While, Hamlet never explicitly speaks the words, self defence, he does go about it as if it was not a big deal and shouldn’t be questioned. Later in the song a line of lyrics go, “I shot the sheriff…” This is the man, who is singing the song, admitting

The second poem I choose to analyze is “A Song in the Front Yard”this poem is also filled with some of life's little ironies, its main subject a privileged youth wanting to break from her gilded cage into an impoverished, sinful world. The poem is told in 1st person narrative from the view of a young rich girl who romanticizes being poor. Throughout the poem several literary devices were used to convey a clear message among them metaphors and imagery. The poem begins to the tune of a young girl who has had enough of playing in her front yard and smelling the sweet yet bitter scent of roses and wants to have an adventure in the backyard, her mother warns her of the dangers that come with straying away from the safety of one’s own front yard, yet the rebellious youth does not understand her mother’s reasonings and does not see the danger in becoming a “bad woman.” In this poem Brooks tackles a major conflict that all humans face do we let our parents and society's expectations determine our lives or do we give in to our own desires no matter how misguided they might be.