Song Analysis: The Farmer's Back

Music is an art. It is combined in a way to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expressing of emotion; the lyrics help you connect and cope with certain situations you’re experiencing. I chose to analyze the country song, “Good In Goodbye” by Carrie Underwood. Carrie Underwood wrote this song for a past love whom she sees years later outside a restaurant they used to go to and recalls the good in her heartache and pain. This song is very close to my heart, it helped me when I was going through a heartbreak. I now realize why this song’s meaning is worth knowing. Country music’s atmosphere is mostly nostalgic and it always has a great message or a life lesson behind it.

All my life, I have been a country boy. I grew up on a small family dairy farm in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, the most tucked away place in one of the most tucked away states, and spent my entire life around animals. Early on, I’d ride on my dad’s shoulders when he’d go get the cows from the pasture. I’d sit on the wagon while my parents were putting in hay. Soon, I was either throwing bales onto the elevator, or up in the barn stacking them feeling like last night’s leftovers in the microwave. Or going out to get the cows from pasture on a mid-July afternoon. Sun hanging low, and so humid you wade through the air, listening as the peaceful song of the peepers in the gully replace the grasshoppers’ drone. I’ll always be a country boy, that’s one thing they can’t take away.

The symbolism in this song is that life is hard for other members of the society. This song regards a man trying/ resolving to alter his ways before starting to change the world. This

For my assignment I decided to use the song “The Hand That Feeds” by Nine Inch Nails. I discovered this song a year or so ago and really liked it. I put it on my phone where it was barely listened to, but when I looked though my phone specifically for a political song, this one called out to me. When I listened to the song I found a much deeper meaning that before and realized what this is actually about. Needless to say, I enjoy the song much more knowing what the lyrics actually mean. I finally decided to use this song when I found an interesting article that really pushed the song’s meaning beyond the limits.

Everyday people decide whether to take risks or not. Most of the time people do not take risks because they are fearful to see other people’s reactions, but it is good to take risks because it can result in a positive outcome if one is successful or not. In the poem, “a song in the front yard”, Gwendolyn Brooks, the author of the poem, discusses a girl who debates if she should or should not enter into the “back yard.” The girl does decide to enter in the backyard where she benefits from taking the risk. Brooks communicates the concept that people need to take risks to develop new experiences in one’s life.

Author Jean Toomer who is one considered one of the Great American authors, wrote during the Harlem Renaissance period. Particularly, in his work(s) titled Harvest Song written in 2003 we can see evidence of the characteristics, themes and style identified with the Harlem Renaissance movement which was extant in American letters between 1920 and 1940. As a representative of such a movement, Jean Toomer then remains one of the most identifiable and iconic writers of his time.

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.

The piece of art I chose is is a song that I listened to a lot as a kid and still listen to today. The melodies and instruments transcend the lyrics. However , the lyrics hold so much more. I lived on a fire station as a kid when this song came out. Actually it was a tape in 1985. I thought because of the association with my dad being gone on fires all the time, that this song “The Working Hour,” related to him and his need to be away working on fires all the time. As an adult, I still feel those feelings as I did when I was 7 yrs old, however now I am the one working. I do the same job, and the working hour means something more to me now then it did when I was a kid waiting for my father to return from fires. This was a time when work to

The song talks about how we all want the day when we will be successful and people will know our name. This is much like what Willy had always wanted for himself. It then goes on to talk about how they worked hard through sweat and dirt to get where they are now and that in the beginning no one knew or cared for who they were. They believed in what they were doing and kept on pushing and trying harder to reach their goal while learning from their mistakes by turning their “mess into messages”(New). It also talks about how they fought in wolves in sheep's clothing. This can seem to be unfair as being in sheep clothing means to look innocent and weak which would make the “wolves” lower their guard. This is much like how Ben in the play went through the jungle to become successful. Ben may not have played completely fair, but he believed in himself and improved himself to eventually come out a successful and wealthy man. Overall, it reflects the motif of the jungle because it talks about working hard through the

Bordering Alberta and Manitoba, Saskatchewan –which means swift flowing river in native Cree (insert citation)- is widely known for it’s agriculture, especially wheat. Some even call it Canada’s breadbasket. It ranks 5th in area and 6th in population out of Canada (insert citation), and proves that this province has a lot more to offer than just wheat. It demonstrates that it is complex and strong in all aspects if physical, economic and human diversity.

The issue the song relates to is depression. Depression is real and it does affect people and their everyday lives. Depression can lead to many more issues in others and those issues lead to more issues and it just keeps going and going. Sometimes depression can lead to suicide and it often does, especially in teens. In an article called, “Thwarting A Killer: Teen

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.

In an alternative version of Atwood’s poem ‘’Pig Song’’ , called ‘’The Outcry of a Sheep’’ , the speaker , that is not a person , but a sheep , addresses directly the reader and has an outcry about its family’s decimation due to people’s actions. This persona poem focuses on the deployment of the mask , which gives the speaker the chance and the freedom to see things from a different perspective and personalize the animal rights and industrial farming issues , that are addressed elegantly , as my analysis will attempt to show . First of all , the poet covers up his real identity and uses a mask in order to describe the animal’s

The images created in the song show the adversity the people face and how they are being silenced by the majority. In the opening stanza the people are a metaphor to the sunrise, coming slowly and patiently but exploding with power when they truly come out. As the people face challenges,