“We’ve grown Apart” “November Rain” comparison essay Guns N’ Roses writer, and lead singer Axl Rose of the song “November Rain,” use’s a romantic, and tragic mood, a soft, smooth, and sad tone, and a motif of failed love, and November Rain to explain that true love can grow apart. While, Passionate Desyre’s “We’ve Grown Apart” uses a sad, and tragic mood, a dark, and serious tone, and a motif of failed love to explain that if its not meant to be, it wont work. Both Guns N’ Roses writer Axl Rose, and Desyre use the similar moods, tones, and motifs to promote a very similar message to the reader or listener. The moods of “We’ve Grown Apart” are sad, and tragic. The words Desyre decides to choose creates a mood of pure sadness, by only showing the woman talking …show more content…
Axl Rose’s vocals in the beginning sounds reminiscent, soft, and smooth. Later on, after the tragedy occurs Axl’s voice becomes angry, and upset. The lyrics suggest a young man trying to discuss the nature of his disappointing relationship with someone he doesn’t even love anymore. “We've been through this such a long long time just trying to kill the pain.” The couple has been struggling with their mutual distrust in love. The connection between both of these is that there is a mutual dislike of the relationship after time goes by in both the song, and poem.
The motif for “We’ve Grown Apart” is the recurring concept in this poem is that she always had a great love for him, and he for her, but she knew that someday they would break up. She keeps trying to salvage the relationship, but now she knows that she cannot keep up the charade, and has to break the news to him.
“All I can say is I'm sorry for what I have to do. I know it's the best decision, someday you'll see it too.” She is apologetic of the news, but she knows that it had to be done. The man might not think of it the same way, but after some time he will realize that the right decision was
Both poems are themed about their unbreakable bond of love and are free verse. Because both poems use “I” they are 1st person point of view. Most poems have repetition as these
In stanza four the pronoun “you” is introduce. We assume its Collin prior relationship, as its only stanza that doesn’t contains Collin pet analogy and first evidence contributing to the theme. The metaphor shift to abstract when Collin deny her worthiness and what she meant to his life. But, as he subtracted himself to the “combination”, he was able to discover her value rather measuring his spouse love and intimacy. Repetitions occur, such as “awkward and bewildering” to represent the time when his spouse was companion to him, but he couldn’t reciprocate those same nurturing feelings back to her. In addition, his spouse “held” him more than he ever did. He regrets it now when he is holding his dog but the dog is incapable to measure that same actions and words because of law of nature. The last stanza line, “..now we are both lost in strange and distant neighborhood.”, is another metaphor reference the way a lost dog might feel to his lost love that can’t ever be the same
A common theme throughout the poem is the coping mechanism used for his troubled relationship. He does not view his alcoholism as a fault, but as a comfort and an escape. He yearns “to sleep beneath a patchwork quilt of rum”. (Clarke 6) Furthermore, he wishes to drink until he is unaware that his relationship is troubled. He wishes for “the slow collapse of language / [w]ashed out by alcohol.” (Clarke 7-8) He desires to detach, and isolate himself from the situation mentally, rather than remove himself physically. This suggests that he has no wish to recover from his alcoholism, and no desire to leave his
My introduction to the work of Alex Turner came as a recommendation from a friend in High School. As a huge indie rock, music-enthusiast the chance to hear work that was unfamiliar always excited me. So immediately after school that afternoon, I downloaded the entire discography Alex Turner wrote and recorded with his band, The Arctic Monkeys, along with a solo album of his own. The themes discussed in those albums ranged from; heartbreak, experiencing night life, falling love, and the confusion and frustration of
realizes she has a long journey ahead of her, but will do whatever it takes to help her
All of the songs on this album relay different messages to listeners. Most songs contain a lot of pathos, call to action and more. Pathos is really prominent in certain songs such as Sorry, Formation, and Freedom. An excerpt from Sorry says: “Now you want to say you 're sorry/Now you want to call me crying/Now you gotta see me wildin '/Now I 'm the one that 's lying/And I don 't feel bad about it/It 's exactly what you get.” This displays the emotions after getting out of a relationship or during the struggles of it. Other lyrics from this song that display this
There are several lines within this poem referring to motifs that revolve around pain and emotional outlet. The lines “to thrust all that life under your tongue!— / that, all by itself, becomes a passion / death’s a
“I do what I think is right for my family, matter of fact I do what I know is right for my family. I don't need you telling me everyday that what i do is wrong.”
To start off, the first stanza in her song represents a sense of how unavoidable change is and how the confusion of the bond combined with the stress of the blame game can lead to a doomed
The song I chose for this assignment is “I Will Follow You into the Dark” by Death Cab for Cutie. Within this song, you will experience the life of a boy who grows old with someone he cherishes. Their life is full of traveling and being together, while giving a positive outlook on aging. You see the speaker adapt and change his thinking in order to stay true to what he believes. He also steels himself to the problems revolving around stratification, and deals with them by not letting it manipulate his thinking.
Paris by the Chainsmokers is a song that reflects on the happy side of a relationship that is rarely seen in break-ups. The song is essentially the writer remembering a relationship with fondness. It tells the tale of two young lovers on their own and in love who eventually break apart. It also touches on happy memories like the lyrics “We were staying in paris,/ to get away from your parents” (Chainsmokers, 1-2). By highlighting the highs instead of lows, it shows the listener that they should not be sad about their loss but happy that they ever got to experience the joy and happiness that most relationships provide. Almost no relationships end with happiness but this song shows that it is possible to think happily of a relationship that has ended. This song also uses higher pitched, electronic music to
The third and fourth stanzas offer the poems greatest paradoxes. The author speaks of the lovers being "At this unique distance from isolation" which is to say they are in the one place where they can truly be themselves, in their natural habitat, doing that which is only natural to human instinct. Despite these circumstances, however, the two are at a loss: "It becomes still more difficult to find / Words at once true and kind, / Or not untrue and not unkind." It is through this final stanza that the author conveys the ultimate paradox of human relationships: Relationships are not built upon true love for one another; rather they are built upon the absence of hatred.
‘When we two parted’ is an elegy of the loss of love, Byron is reflecting and analyzing a relationship that has already ended. His grief, anger and despair, intensifies his use of first person, which maintains a strong impact on the audience throughout. The poem is powerful, personal and unreserved, the emotion and passion is definitely felt through his writing. Byron’s message is ambiguous; so the reader is able to make their own assumption this is the beauty of the poem,
The third stanza goes on to define the pain, only now in more emotional terms, such as "It hurts to thwart the reflexes / of grab, of clutch" (14-15), as well as the pain of continuously having to say good bye, each perhaps as if for the last time: "to love and let / go again and again" (15-16). These lines reinforce the impression that the first stanza's definition of "to love differently" is in fact an anti-freedom or state of emotional anarchy, now using words like "pester" to describe any separation; the poet is compelled "to remember / the lover who is not in the bed" (16), hinting at obsessive tendencies as being possible components of the relationship. We also learn that she believes love requires work, which she cannot do without her partner's assistance, and that this lack of cooperation frustrates her. She believes this neglected effort is the other party's fault by his failure to do his fair share, thereby leaving her own efforts ineffective, the whole of it characterized as an effort "that gutters like a candle in a cave / without air" (19-20). Her demands of this work are quite broad, encompassing being "conscious, conscientious and concrete" in her efforts and optimistically calling this work "constructive" (20-21) before ending the stanza.
In both pieces she wishes to be detached from love and responsibility, yet as the poem progresses, she has a change of heart, almost an epiphany.