Poetry & Feeling Feelings...

1/31/2015

So far so good in our poetry unit! But let's take a few more moments to talk about connotation, our TP-CASTT method, and why feelings are such a big deal in poetry.

I've been trying to pay (even more) attention to what I read and listen to and how we use language to get others to feel stuff. My little kids are quite aware of how some words and phrasing affect me more than others.

For example...

Addy: "Can I eat this gigantic drippy ice cream sandwich five minutes before bedtime?"
Me: Um, no you may not.
vs.
Addy: "May I eat this gigantic drippy ice cream sandwich five minutes before bedtime?"
Me: What a proper way to ask a ridiculous question. Sure! Enjoy it and be sure to get extra sticky.

Manners and properness will take you far, guys. Plus it's adorable and I don't want to raise a couple of heathens who eat gigantic drippy ice cream sandwiches five minutes before bedtime. wink.

Or, another scenario...

Student A: Ugh, reading is so boring!
Student B: Ugh, reading is so challenging!
Me: Student A, shut your face, reading is amazing and totally not-boring and, yes I agree Student B, at times, reading is challenging!

Boring and challenging...probably not much of a difference in this scenario, right? But with teacher ears and connotation, I'm immdeiately emotional.
.....

Although what I'm talking about is more under the umbrella of rhetoric than poetry, they're probably the same in the other, right? In MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech, which you all know and have studied, the pathos is kicking. We feel so many feelings in that speech, and that's accomplished through a very deliberate use of language. But it's not only pathos, it's poetry. The same techniques of repetition, figurative language, imagery, tone, rhythm and sound help to create this really condensed emotional moment, and I think poetry does something similar. By the end of (a Salfia favorite) The Negro Speaks of Rivers you may not be moved to action, but you might consider the world around you a little bit differently. Either way you slice it, what we're talking about is craft.

This might be taking the long way around (I know, sorry), but it could be a useful way of thinking of the C in TP-CASTT. Although we've done loads of lit analysis this year, we've not been this deep into feeling and emotion. I'm not sure if our studies so far have required it. But poetry will. And we're not talking about sentimentality, we're talking about writers capturing the human experience. Remember the second half of the Aristotle quote, "Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, great and feeling souls"? Yeah.

And the first half of that quote, well, we'll save for another day.

Your job for this blog comment is to...
Extend the idea of connotation in the TP-CASTT method by finding an example of language in a book, a song, or a poem that connotes or creates emotion.
(In other words, whatever you choose would appropriately fit into the C box of a TP-CASTT worksheet.)

And then...
Provide a few sentences explaining your example.

My example:
I'll post my explanation later, but for now, my example is from a Josh Ritter song called To the Dogs or Whoever...

"Can you love me like the crosses love the nape of a neck?"

What a line! So...

Have fun!

42 Comments

Alexis Bush

1/31/2015 03:50:59 am

"Why do you want to fly, blackbird? You aren't ever going to fly."
- India Jean Jacques "Blackbird"
This song is a very short, very deep song. It's just like poetry and says a lot without using a lot of words. The connotation of the word blackbird is being someone who wishes to leave a group of people or someone who has been kidnapped. The song lyric is basically stating the dark idea that whoever they are singing to will never be able to escape where they've been trapped.

Mrs. H

1/31/2015 09:11:52 am

Excellent first post! I'm happy to see you explicitly address the connotation of the word 'blackbird.' Blackbird will forever only remind me of that pretty little Beatles song. :)

Jonathan McGuire

2/1/2015 03:23:39 am

"What do I think, he asks, what should he do with an employee who spends company time in some little fantasy world. If I was in his shoes, what would I do?...What I would do, I say, is I'd be very careful who I talked to about this paper. I say, it sounds like some dangerous psychotic killer wrote this, and this buttoned-down schizophrenic could probably go over the edge at any moment in the working day and stalk office to office with an Armalite AR-180 carbine gas-operated semiautomatic."
This quote is from the nameless protagonist of the book Fight Club. This quote gives both the boss and the reader a feeling of uneasiness, and gives the audience a reason to be frightened of him. The passage builds up tension in the scene, much like the breaking point the narrator is speaking of. This quote has a nervous, shocking connotation to it, allowing the reader to feel like he or she is in the position of his boss.

Susan Margevich

2/1/2015 08:08:44 am

The song I will be analyzing for connotation is "Bullet" by Hollywood Undead, which is way out from my usual music taste, but it's a very neat song. You can listen to it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP077RitNAc
First of all, you guys have got to listen to this. This song is one of the most cheerful sounding songs ever, upbeat, warm, singsongy, whatever. The rhythm swings carelessly like any pop song and is annoyingly catchy.
The lyrics that match make this such much more interesting.
This song is very, very, very blunt in its meaning- it's about suicide. The chorus is as follows:
"My legs are dangling off the edge,
The bottom of the bottle is my only friend,
I think I'll slit my wrists again and I'm gone, gone, gone, gone.
My legs are dangling off the edge,
A stomach full of pills didn't work again,
I'll put a bullet in my head and I'm gone, gone, gone."
The word choice is calm and plain, not mournful in any way, but rather conversational. The speaker is totlly at peace with what he is doing, speaking about awful things with a very lighthearted tone. The rhythm is upbeat and also conversational. Charlie Scene's verse is:
"I'm 20 stories up, yeah, I'm up at the top,
I'll polish off this bottle, now it's pushing me off,
Asphalt to me has never looked so soft,
I bet my mamma found my letter, now she's calling the cops."
Again, the speaker is totally disregarding everyone around him, instead calmly swinging his feet and thinking about his impending doom with a placid tone.
This song is disturbing. Straight up. It discusses suicide, self-harm, abuse, and addiction with a totally plain voice, making the entire song pretty uncomfortable and jaw-dropping. The imagery is strong of a calm-faced man waiting for his own death, and it's freaky. The ubeat rhythm and conversational tone is honestly thr coolest thing ever considering the content.

Annyssa Greene

2/1/2015 08:28:51 am

"You may write me down in history With your bitter twisted lies, You may tread me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise."
-Maya Angelou Still I Rise
The connotation in this poem is very strong. The use of dirt, dust,and bitter twisted lies give the poem a negative connotation. However,history and I'll rise give a flash of hope in the connotation. Inspiration is written through out. By listing the negative then adding positives give the connotation a turn from why me to I can do this.

Ashley Boothe

2/1/2015 09:09:21 am

My line isn't from any poem or any piece of literature but something from a conversation I had roughly two years ago with someone. I was told that "Redemption is a beautiful thing," in regards to a problem I was having at the time of this conversation.

This example evokes thought; strong and or deep thought. Redemption is to redeem and to redeem is to be able to pick yourself up after something has happened and learn from it. It's not something a lot of people think about because our society glamorizes things like "staying up till 3 AM because #yoloswag" and "I got so wasted last night and almost died but it's okay lol because #yolo" (literal quotes from people I know via twitter). It's all negative and backwards when you think about it because if you're healthy and have ambition you need to be punished for whatever reason. That's scary, don't you think?

What this quote in particular does is not romanticize the fact that you made a mistake and you should feel proud of it, but rather you will have another chance to fix it in the future somehow. It portrays hope and faith, and if anyone every says this to you it will cause you to think and get excited for your future like it did for me.

I won't say who told me this for two reasons: 1- No one (save Susan) will have a clue who I'm talking about and 2- It's a respect thing. They have told this to many people and it has created different results each time, most of them positive in some form or fashion. It's beautiful to think about and even more intriguing when you find that you may hear this one day again from someone you barely even know. Something to think about.

Tania Boh

2/1/2015 11:18:25 am

"You'e loathing already ready to incite rage as if each message board is a stage where you recite hostility turning freedom of speech into freedom of cruelty....We were once upon a time told that none of you exist, we dismissed you as make believe of myth, now armed only with resolve we will no longer tell ourselves that you aren't real, we will not let you make your dinners out of the things we feel." Troll by Shane Koyzcan

By far one of my favorite poems written by him. The poem draws attention to internet bullying like no other.The "trolls" go from the mythical creature to the actual internet bully. The use of a message board to share information with others turns into bullying others for their thoughts an opinions, no longer "freedom of speech".
Finally the situation of bullying isn't going away anytime soon, but that we can never let the bully win, in the end we can come out victorious.

Leah Smith

2/1/2015 11:34:13 am

This is cliché and really "basic white girl" of me, but 'Photograph' by Ed Sheeran has a deep connotation. In this line of the chorus: "We keep this love in a photograph", the word photograph connotes that they want the memory to last forever, as a picture would. In the following verse:
"Oh you can fit me
Inside the necklace you got when you were 16
Next to your heartbeat
Where I should be
Keep it deep within your soul"
The words soul and heartbeat connote the realness of their love. A word like heart wouldn't do as well at conveying the meaning. The word necklace is used as something she considers special and dear to her heart; he would like to be considered that way as well.

Cailin

2/1/2015 11:43:39 am

YAAAS LEAH YAAAS

Karla Hilliard

2/1/2015 12:05:14 pm

Slow clap...
;)

jordan fain

2/1/2015 11:37:53 am

"As we grow to meet decay"
This is a line from the song To Daffodils. The line refers to daffodils but also to ourselves. But it has a negative connotation with the use of the word decay.

Rachel Chapman

2/1/2015 11:50:12 am

One of my favorite quotes, that I was once told, and I continue to use to help others, is "Kill them with kindness"

This sentence really contradicts itself, because the connotation of killing and kindness are polar opposites. By placing these two words together, it creates a sense of destruction through being basically a better person. In order to really get to someone who is trying to get to you, all you have to do is be nice, smile, and stay on top of your game. That kind of attitude will eat away at someone, and eventually upset them to a point of giving up. This line a paradox, and I honestly love it for its contradicting connotation, and the imagery of hurting someone through being nice.

Cailin Mosser

2/1/2015 12:13:18 pm

My all time favorite quote was said by Lance Armstrong:
Pain is temporary; it may last a minute, an hour, a day, or even a year, but eventually it will subside and something will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

Pain has a negative connotation, but it is put together with the word 'temporary', which lets you know that that pain will not last for long. Quitting anything may it be sports, relationships, or even life, will leave you with nothing but hurt until you do something to create a positive change. I think that's what Armstrong is trying to say; what he had to tell himself when he dealt with testicular cancer and professional biking.

Lex Reyes

2/1/2015 12:35:32 pm

"And be my slave to the grave, I'm the priest God never paid"
-Muse "The Small Print"
The negative emotions in this song are revealed in this one line. A "priest God never paid" would be someone who was good, but never got anything in return. Being a "slave to the grave" would be to lack freedom until death, and both "slave" and "grave" have a negative connotation.

Erica Conaughty

2/1/2015 12:53:05 pm

Last night I had the house to myself, and I watched my favorite movie, Eat Pray Love. There is a part in the movie, for those who haven't seen it, where they go to the Augusteum. It was built by Octavian Augustus to house his remains. It was the only thing that lasted in the fall of Rome, and now is one of the loneliest places. I could quote the entire passage (because trust me, I love this movie) but she ends by saying, "Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation."

This part makes me tear up every time. Being torn down is really one of the best things that can happen to you, not because it is just learning experience, but it is a time to build yourself back up again. You can change whatever you want. It is a time to focus on yourself.Your mind only has the power that you give to it. We are all so afraid of things changing and falling apart so the point where we try to hold onto things that are already falling apart. That isn't a way we should live.

Carolyn Hill

2/1/2015 01:15:38 pm

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is just a little something extra"
- unknown
When one is ordinary they are average, but when one strives to be legendary and puts in that little extra they become extraordinary. Being ordinary is not a bad thing, however, people who wish to be extraordinary will not settle for the average achievements.

Original has a simple connotation but becomes slightly offensive when it is compared to being extraordinary. The connotation behind "a little something extra" is the the little voice in our heads telling us to push forward and better ourselves. When one fails to follow their heart and not do the things they love with pure passion they loose their little something extra. If Micheal Jordan did not play the game of basketball with intense passion he would've been simply ordinary.

Ryan Moore

2/1/2015 01:21:50 pm

I'm not sure were I heard this quote or if I remember it correctly but it's this.
"The true measure of a man isn't how high he rises, or how far he falls, it's how high he rises after he has fallen."

This quote talks about something that is almost universal in life. People will have high points in their life, and sometimes they will fall. Whether it be by their actions or someone else's. The true measure means what will a person do after they fall, what actions will they take. Will they try to move on, and accept it? Or will they fall further by being unable to accept it? This is the ultimate test of a person, and many times it is the hardest one.

Alona Jepifanova

2/1/2015 01:45:00 pm

alright, so I saw this movie a long time ago, long enough to not remember the name but it was about a girl who just went through a whole lot of issues and blah blah the whole sappy love movie thing. Anyways, as she was also, a senior in highschool, her Senior quote was "Has the ambition to witness a miracle" which I believe is the most wonderful fragment sentence I've ever seen and it's stuck in my head ever since. Her quote can be inspiring for anyone because I mean really, who wouldn't want to witness a miracle? it's saying that she (and anyone else) should have the love and passion to see and experience something breathtaking in their lifetime but in a different way, it all depends on what you consider a "miracle" also. whether it's watching two people fall in love, a baby being born, or just hearing a good speech, we should all push ourselves to see great things in life because (from another quote that I could write about but I'll save for another time) It's not about how many breaths we take in life that are important, but it's how many moments take our breath away.

Alexis King

2/1/2015 02:05:59 pm

"And I've been a fool and I've been blind
I can never leave the past behind
I can see no way, I can see no way
I'm always dragging that horse around
All of his questions, such a mournful sound
Tonight I'm gonna bury that horse in the ground
Cause I like to keep my issues drawn
It's always darkest before the dawn"
- Shake it out by Florence+ The Machine
I choose these specific lyrics of the song because of the double meaning of "Tonight I'm gonna burry that horse in the ground." They are infact not talking about burying a horse at all. The horse refers to her deep dark past and whomever may have been in her past. She is talking about letting go of her past and starting new. This song hold a positive and negative connotation and is very touching and relatable to the listeners.

Hannah Cherry

2/1/2015 02:13:05 pm

One of my favorite quotes is "Go where you are celebrated- not tolerated. If they can't see the real value of you, it's time for a new start." - unknown
This quote is meant to inspire readers, and it achieves this through the connotation. Celebrated is a strongly positive word and it sets up the connotation for the whole quote. Then it further expands on it with the phrases "real value" and "new start" which also have positive connotation. This word choice gives the whole quote an inspirational and empowering feeling.

Lexi Sowers

2/1/2015 02:14:24 pm

"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be to eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends." -J.R.R. Tolkien LOTR

This quote, I believe, is composed of many "feels". It really makes you evaluate life and death in their entirety. It also poses a question. Can you give it to them? What makes your life any greater than theirs? What gives you the power to judge them? Life is filled with multiple tests and questions. It is your choice on how you with to answer it.
It has both negative and positive connotation. Death refers to the demise or end of someone's life. And life refers to the complete opposite.

Dani Matthews

2/1/2015 02:29:01 pm

This quote is from the opening of Memories by Panic! at the Disco.
"He was the congregation's vagrant,
With an unrequited love.
When your passion's exaltation,
Then finding refuge is not enough."
"Congregation's vagrant" is much stronger than saying "he wasn't really a church going man," as vagrant suggests his church attendance was rare as he never stayed in one place for long. "Unrequited" is a less commonly heard word so it gives a despairingly heartbroken feel. "Passion's exaltation," is wholehearted emotion. All of your intense love is in a state of extreme happiness. "Refuge" is much more intense than "running away" as refuge suggests escaping for the sake of your personal safety.

Kara Iden

2/1/2015 02:46:44 pm

"Never Let the Fear of Striking Out Keep You From Playing the Game." Originally said by Babe Ruth, it was also quoted by Hilary Duff (one of my role models) in the Movie A Cinderella Story. "Never" gives a very strong connotation, almost like you don't have a choice. The play of words with comparison to baseball is very motivating, even if you don't play baseball you understand what they are trying to say. I think the quote radiates a very positive connotation to stick up for what you believe in and don't be afraid of failure because that will get you nowhere.

Nikki Schlapo

2/1/2015 02:57:32 pm

"Even now, as I write this, I can still feel the tightness. And I want you to feel it-the wind coming off the river, the waves, the silence, the wooded frontier. You're at the bow of a boat on the Rainy River. You're twenty-one year's old, you're scared, and there's a hard squeezing pressure in your chest. What would you do?" - The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien ~~~~~ So I chose this quote because of everything that falls into the connotation part of TP-CASTT. O'Brien uses point of view, imagery, and sentence structure to create meaning and feeling. His point of view switch puts the reader in his shoes and the imagery sets the scene. Then he asks a question which really makes you think about the situation and how he must have felt. I think this quote shows how all of those literary devices create meaning in the story.

Angel Mercado

2/1/2015 03:21:51 pm

This quote is from my favorite book/movie The Great Gatsby.
"tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning--
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
This quote expresses the significance of the past to dreams of the future. It focuses on the struggle of people being able to achieve their goals by both transcending and re-creating the past. Although people can't seem to move on from the past, the metaphor used here is, the current draws them backward as they row forward toward the future. The connotation of "boats against the current" is looking back at your past, will hold you back from your future goals or success.

Katie King

2/1/2015 03:27:56 pm

"The sun hasn't died, deep in my bones, straight from inside." -Radioactive, by Imagine Dragons. The word sun gives a very positive connotation and by saying it "hasn't died" is giving off the feeling that the singer has gone through something but is still shining, pushing through. Also the strong connotation of "deep" paired with "bones" and "from inside" add to the sense of power that is coming out from within.

Kristen Blaine

2/1/2015 03:30:44 pm

"For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you’ll never walk alone."
A section from the poem Time Tested Beauty Tips, one of Aubrey's favorites. It reveals the feeling of striving for perfection, as every young girl typically does. She was a huge inspiration to younger girls and she tried speaking this poem to them to show that beauty isn't everything, she gives them the feeling of becoming a better human being to become truly beautiful.

Austin Custer

2/1/2015 03:32:48 pm

"Jarring of judgement and reasons defeat the sweet heat of her breath in my mouth I'm alive" Hozier- Angel of small and the codeine scene. When he says jarring it basically let's the listener know that he knows that this realtionship with this girl is a bad choice but the word jarring is like him saying that he put this in his head to last

Olivia McGoldrick

2/1/2015 03:52:30 pm

"The sky it was gold, it was rose
I was taking sips of it through my nose"
This is a quote from the song Semi-Charmed Life by Third Eye Blind.The words "gold" and "rose" both have positive connotations, we see roses, and gold,as fancy and beautiful things. The "taking sips of it through my nose" acts as sort of imagery for how the sky/day/that time of life was. The singer/songwriter engages the senses by describing how it looked, and how he was "taking sips of it through my nose" saying he was drinking the day in.This imagery also gives off a positive connotation of the day/sky, because you wouldn't really soak in and admire something if it wasn't positive and beautiful.

Haili Ortego

2/1/2015 04:03:38 pm

"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times if one only remembers to turn on the light."

These words are ones I live by. The connotation of the word light in this sentence is a positive one. The entire sentence is self-empowering. Its trying to tell you that you're in control of your own happiness. That even when you think there isn't any, you can always find it somewhere. Maybe its just the Harry Potter dork in me, but I love this. The idea of happiness just being a switch you can flip, has such a positive connotation about it.

Stephanie Johnson

2/1/2015 04:04:28 pm

"Down in the flood of remembrance, I weep like a child for the past."

- Piano a poem by D.H. Lawrence

Okay, so when we analyzed this poem in class I fell in love with this last line.The entire mood of this piece was melancholy but this last phrase embodies what Lawrence was feeling and really, just REALLY gave me the "feels". The reason for this is because I can make an emotional connection and relate to the aching, longing feeling he has towards the past. But, his word choice also plays a big part in this. The first word he uses that creates effect is 'flood'. When people use the word 'flood' it's connotation is overwheling and consuming. It's like he can't stop himself from remembering his past, its pouring down upon him. Then the second word he uses is weep. 'Weep' has a stronger sad connotation than 'cry'. So yeah. He's not just crying, he's weeping...he's mourning. Lawrence is at a point where he has completely cast down his manhood and has humbled himself to the point where he compares himself to a child.

Lexi Beach

2/1/2015 04:16:59 pm

"And I want it, I want my life so bad. I'm doing everything I can, then another one bites the bust. It's hard to lose a chosen one. You did not break me. I'm still fighting for peace."
-"Elastic Heart" by SIA

I wanted to just copy and paste the entire song but I thought that might be a bit much. I chose this portion though because of two things. The connotation of "a chosen one" and "fighting for peace". Starting with, "a chosen one", generally these words are describing someone who is divine or sent from a "higher place" to save the "average" people. But in this song, the tone of this song connotes the phrase, "a chosen one", as the person who was chosen to be loved and because of the well-known connotation of this phrase, it adds to the effect of how important and significant his loved one was (if that makes any sense). The second thing I noticed was "fighting for peace". The connotation of fighting is associated with war and violence and peace is what ends the fighting but by saying "fighting for peace", it puts the two polar opposites up against each other while creating a relationship between them.

Elise Freeman

2/1/2015 04:23:34 pm

"Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof"

I chose this lyric from the song "Happy". I think he is trying to say that you can see a glass half full or empty. A room without a roof is open with tons of oppurtunities or you can choose to close it off.

Travis Krauch

2/1/2015 05:06:11 pm

The quote I thought of for this assignment comes from the song "Cherry Wine" by Hozier:
"Calls of guilty thrown at me
All while she stains
The sheets of some other
Thrown at me so powerfully
Just like she throws with the arm of her brother"

By comparing the accusations the narrator is weathering to a game of catch their partner played with her brother, they are giving the accusations a physical weight. This also implies that the accusations are as carefree as the laidback game of catch. Alternatively, the final line could be in reference to how she physically abused her brother, as in throwing being a synonym for twisting or the like, which would imply a pattern of abusive behavior.

The accusation in the first line is a set up to reveal the hypocrisy in this action two lines later. This emotion of confusion on the part of the narrator is shared by the listeners: why would she accuse them of doing exactly what she is doing? Yet despite this, there is no acknowledgement of wrongdoing from the narrator, only a statement of facts. This indifference helps create and plays into the sense throughout the rest of the song that they love their abuser and don't particularly mind being wronged, but are only confused about why it is happening.

Hope Spriggs

2/1/2015 05:30:46 pm

My song that I decided to look at was "Gypsy" by Shakira. The reason I think this song demonstrates the effects of connotation is because throughout the song she changes what the average connotation of what a gypsy. Shakira does this by having an upbeat track playing in the background which makes the song lighter. This lightness then plays into the idea she tries to create by saying gypsies are just people that have free spirits and live life to please themselves. She stays away from the original connotation of thieving and conning to get what they want and then moving on the next town. By the end of the song the listener sees gypsies as a care free people that move where ever they please and live by their own means.

2/1/2015 09:21:20 pm

Great, fun, & deep posts everybody! Y'all have motivated me/impressed me once again.

Ps. Notice in so many of the lyrics or quotes the sound or syntax devices at play. Cool.

Liam Redding

2/1/2015 10:56:01 pm

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Roberts frost's use of language gives the emotion behind a story that most all of us will have to face. The two roads represent two different decisions you have in front of you. Robert says that he took the one that is "less traveled by" or the unpopular choice and that that has made all the difference.

Brittney Brodnan

2/2/2015 03:02:45 pm

"I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be." - Perks of Being a Wallfower

I chose this specific line in this book because I fell as if everybody can relate to it in some type of way. The "confusion" that one has with oneself is hard to explain to others what it feels like. In fact, we always have those "moments" stored in the back of our heads that will always be there, even when we claim to be happy and claim to have moved on.

Brock Adams

2/2/2015 04:50:55 pm

"I talked to God about you. He said he sent you an angel. Look at all that he gave you. You asked for you and you got two. You know I never left you 'cause every road that leads to heaven is right inside you. So I can say, hello my only one."
- Kayne West "Only One"
This can easily be labeled my favorite song. I think this song can relate to a ton of people as it deals with passion and love. The artist is speaking to the one he loves who has left him. His love went along with another, but is coming back to him and he has the chance to tell her that he never left her. He always loved her. However, he says that both guys were good for her as evident as God sent her two angels, although she only asked for one. The connotation of "God" and "heaven" in the song gives it a peaceful connotation. Although she left, he is at peace because he never left.

Jantzen Szanca

2/3/2015 03:04:13 am

My quote is“Lose your dream, you lose your mind.” By the Rolling Stones
I chose this quote because I think it is very meaningful and shows that dreams are everything and when you give up on them then you give up on everything. The fight to chase your dreams are everything

Savannah Owens

2/3/2015 01:19:35 pm

"Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul."

These are the last two stanzas in the poem "Invictus" by William Ernest Henley. Life is described as a "place of wrath and tears" and the "horrors of the shade" (death) is just around the corner. However , the "menace" of the years (the hardships of life) have prepared the speaker who accepts death and is is now "unafraid."
In the last stanza, the speaker is basically saying that he is the only one in charge of his own life and can determine what direction it takes.

2/3/2015 01:19:49 pm

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