The Icelandic/Jappaneese OST Song 'Von'

In the first quatrain, the speaker contrasts his age is like a "time of year,": late autumn, when the "yellow leaves" have almost completely fallen from the trees and the boughs "shake against the cold." Those metaphors clearly indicate that winter, which usually symbolizes the loneliness and desolation, is coming. Here the reader would easily observe the similarity between the season and the speaker's age. Since winter is usually

The poem “That Winter,” is the seasonal poem describing the environment has changed by using imagery. It’s impressive for describing the poem with imagery. From lines 1 to 6 on “That Winter” poem:

The Puck that I chose is a character from Norse mythology, Loki. I chose this one because they resemblance each other in many ways. Just like Loki, Puck is mischievous that likes to prank mortals and immortals. Puck seems to enjoy that he is getting people in trouble and we see these when he says” My mistress with a monster is I love”. Puck says these as he enjoys his mischievousness. Like Loki, Puck has a big role in the play because it is him who created the biggest problems and it is also him that fixed the problem. I think that Loki is very similar to Puck because, in Asgard, he created problems with the gods and also played with humans.

The same things in differnet environment can exactly different meaning. Both speakers use same imagery as setting to expresstheir attitude. The speaker in “The Lonely Land”shows his negative feeling. Nevertheless, the speaker in “the summer in Yakima Valley indicate opposite feeling in the poem. Both speakers understand the importance of nature; however the speaker in “The Lonely Land” express cold and loneliness feeling from setting and the speaker in “Summer In Yakima Valley” express relaxed and peaceful feeling in the poem.

The effect that the landscape has on the characters is very significant. Through the use of figurative language, Kent is able to covey the landscape and how it emphasizes many of the emotions felt by the characters. In the text characters live in Icelandic society where long distance communication is hard and fast communication is even harder. With the weather being the way it is; bitterly cold and oppressive, it reflects on each character and their emotions felt through the book. Particularly the oppressive snowfall throughout the text leaves the characters feeling claustrophobic and confined. In turn this allows each character to express these feelings in their own individual way. Margaret, the mother is trapped in her own house in a repetitive cycle of her own making. Agnes is caught in her own inner turmoil, and Margaret’s daughters are also trapped in a cycle, fated to live a

The environment that one is living in can supply hope. Todd Davis showed this through a seasonal metaphor. The narrator of the poem talks about weather changing and getting better, providing the metaphor. The weather getting warmer and the arrival of spring symbolizes new life and a new start. The narrator ponders, “I’m not sure/ why he couldn’t wait,” then later talks about blossoms opening (Davis 787, 4-5). This quote and other hints about spring are discussing how the new season is bringing new hope for many. The narrator says that “we understand/ the ones who decide to leave us in February” (Davis 787, 5-6). This is discussing how during the winter, life can feel so

In the poem Summer Solstice, New York by Sharon Olds, we can identify from the title that author going to address something about long summer day because she used “Summer Solstice”. Moreover she put New York City next to it which is the busiest city in the United States. Olds started the poem by telling a story about, a man who is standing on top of the building and ready to commit suicide. As he standing on top of the building and looking down, he sees thousands of people walking, talking, and busy in their own world. Olds represent him as a person who is tired of his life, and duties. “By the end of the longest day of the year he could not stand it” (line 1). In next lines of poem author explains what cause him to commit suicide. May be because he thinks giving up with his life is easier instead of living in this world. But suicide is not always a solution to fix problems in world. The theme of this poem is prejudice, because author stated at first the man is committing suicide, but he didn’t commit suicide because police stops him and tell him the real beauty of this world.

January Thaw describes the close of winter through a few signs: the melting of the snow, the wake-up of the hibernating skunk, the grieving of the mouse over his flooded tunnels, bundles of rabbit hair and their newfound “freedom from want and fear”.

Throughout Banner in the Sky, Rudi struggles not only with the battle to climb the Citadel but with a battle within himself. Above anything else, Rudi wants his father to be proud of him and strives daily to live up to his legacy. He achieves his goal of being like his father when he sacrifices getting to the top in order to save Emil Saxo. His actions end the internal war within himself when he ultimately chooses the well being of another over his own desires.

In the second stanza it is the semantic field of cold: ‘winter’, ‘ice’, ‘naked’, ‘snow’. All these lexical items give us a feeling of cold which evokes loneliness, unknown, fear.

Although this poem also is connected with nature, the theme is more universal in that it could be related to Armageddon, or the end of the world. Even though this theme may seem simple, it is really complex because we do not know how Frost could possibly

Winter is a time of cold, when forests die and animals hide from the shrieking winds and biting cold. Winter is a time for survival against the odds. How apt that the speaker is struggling against the "lovely, dark and deep" woods to remember that he has "miles to go before [he] sleep[s]." The "easy wind" calls to him, and the "downy flake" beckons him to a comfortable sleep. If the speaker had paused on a bright summer day, the sleep might be just a short rest, but the poem is set on the "darkest evening of the year" while the "woods fill up with snow," and any rest taken in the "lovely, dark and deep" woods would result in the eternal sleep of death (474).

The season of autumn is typically a very happy and exciting time of the year for most people. The weather begins to cool, the leaves of the trees change color, and it is the perfect transition from hot to cold. That being said, it is a part of the year that everyone enjoys and is happy. The movement portrays all of the same elements that the season of autumn does here in the United States. This piece is very upbeat and exciting, just like how one would think of autumn. There is a part in the melody that becomes slower and has a peaceful sound. This part also ties into Autumn where the nights are quite, cool, and peaceful. By adding mix of upbeat and slow parts to the piece, it gives it a great rhythm that is very pleasant to listen to. I believe that Vivaldi did a great job of hitting all the elements of music and produced a piece that sounds exactly what the title

The second song I analyzed was “Paradise” by Coldplay. Similarly to “Kids”, the song “Paradise” starts with the idea of childhood. “When she was just a girl she expected the world. But it flew away from her reach so she ran away in her sleep and dreamed of paradise” is the opening verse for this tune. It talks of a young girl with big dreams expecting the world. As the girl in the song grows up she finds that life is not as simple as she believed. “Life goes on, it gets so heavy. The wheel breaks the butterfly. Every tear a waterfall. In the night the stormy night she'll close her eyes.” Those lyrics are a good example of how life has some downs, tears, and storms, but it talks of how the girl stays positive when the song says, “She’d say, ‘I know the sun must set to rise.’” I think this song is a good reflection of me. I have big dreams for myself, but as life goes on I go through some bumps in the road. I have encountered many of my own stormy nights, but I know the sun will rise to a clearer and brighter day in time. I have learned not to expect things to be handed to me, but to chase after my dreams, and my own perfect paradise to a path of success.

Some of the difficulties that can be faced with singing this song mainly because this song is sung in a different language. As a non-native German speaker I found that the clarity in the song to be straight-forward, each word has a distinct sound over all making it easy to pick out the words that are being sung. As for the tempo of the song, because it is a lullaby, it is fairly slow and each syllable has its own note that is being sung on. Because the speed of the text depends on the melody of the song, some of the words can easily be slurred together if the singer is not paying attention so the placement of the words. I think that good expressive moments would be when the song is repeating itself. During the first round of singing the