Deadline for this is May 2nd, Saturday, 12 noon.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Section P - Question #2
Choose one song from the "Song Poems" handout. Do a VERY SHORT (150 words max!) literary analysis of this based on Gémino Abad's method (object, manner, devices, effect). Make sure to point out poetic techniques used by the writer (means & devices). Mini-essay format, of course. Include a word count.
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This dramatic song poem represents a person who is preoccupied with an interior world and wants to make contact.
ReplyDeleteMetaphor and simile were mainly used in this poem: Today I am a small blue thing; like a marble/ or an eye; I am scattering like light; These techniques show us that the character is weak. He could be easily broken when he fails in having interactions with somebody from the outside world. He’s just a small blue thing because he feels that he is not important, not loved and lonely.
With my knees against my mouth; perfectly reflected; cool and smooth are alliterations and assonance used. Repetition was very evident.
Lastly, this poem has a humorous effect to the reader because it’s as if a child is only describing himself or how he feels depending on how he sees his surroundings.
This dramatic song poem represents a person who is preoccupied with an interior world and wants to make contact.
ReplyDeleteMetaphor and simile were mainly used in this poem: Today I am a small blue thing; like a marble/ or an eye; I am scattering like light; These techniques show us that the character is weak. He could be easily broken when he fails in having interactions with somebody from the outside world. He’s just a small blue thing because he feels that he is not important, not loved and lonely.
With my knees against my mouth; perfectly reflected; cool and smooth are alliterations and assonance used. Repetition was very evident.
Lastly, this poem has a humorous effect to the reader because it’s as if a child is only describing himself or how he feels depending on how he sees his surroundings.
-Sarah Candido Lit14 P 141 words
Maggie Estep's "The Stupid Jerk I’m Obsessed With" is a dramatic poem which shows her love towards a man.
ReplyDeleteShe gave many reasons why she loved the man - how he had perfect jeans, how he defended her, and such. It's ironic how she managed to write many things why she loved him but still call him a jerk. Simile is used - he would bark like a dog, and so is metaphor - lend fuel to my fire. Repetitions are freely used here – phrases and words are constantly being repeated.
The poem's effect is comic because people will realize that sometimes, the people they love are less than perfect and it's same love that fills the imperfection. Even though that man is a jerk, he still loved him.
-John Wong Lit14 P 125 words
“Living Like a Refugee” is a dramatic poem all about someone seeking refuge in a foreign land. The persona might be someone who has experienced hardships in living abroad to a point of poverty. Nonetheless, anaphora technique is evident with the word “You” in several line beginnings. The rhymes, however, are evident in the 2nd sentence and the last 3 lines of the poem. Moreover, there is a pattern in the 2nd and; 3rd and 4th sentences which may show patterns in the life of refugees. Finally, there is the repetition of the title within the poem which gives emphasis on the state it wants to address. Also, there is simile in the title with the use of ‘like’ comparing normal living with refugee life. In addition, the poem is serious because there is a sympathetic feeling over the refugee and his/her lifestyle or way of living.
ReplyDelete-Izzabella B. Perez, Sec P (147 words)
"Desafinado" is a dramatic poem about being left alone by someone he/she loves. In the poem, symbolism is used most of the time, even the title itself which translates to “out of tune” meaning that the love for each other by the persona the one he/she loves is not in harmony. The poem also uses personification in the line “our hearts would always croon”. Another element used is both end and internal rhymes like melody-symphony, pitch-rich and croon-tune.
ReplyDeleteThe poem is gives a dramatic or serious effect to the readers because mainly it is about the person who the persona loves trying to say “I just don’t love you any more” to the persona.
-Lu Emil A. Tabel Sec P (120 words)
This song, “The Stupid Jerk I’m Obsessed With”, presents a situation of a girl persona that is obsessed in a guy and always calling him a stupid jerk. This song is in dramatic mode since the persona used 1st person perspective. This used both end and internal Rhyme like in the words winking and grinning. The song used simile in the line, “and would bark like a dog”. And metaphor when the persona said that the person she loves is just a figment of her imagination. The song also used repetition of words. This song is also full of symbols like the plaster. This song is comic because this song shows how irritating love could be. It also shows an irony. She hates the person she is obsessed so much because she could not stop thinking about his face and other characteristics since she loves him so much.
ReplyDelete-Kristofer Benedict Chua ( 148 words )
"Desafinado" is a song that represents a human experience of someone, the persona, who feels lonely as the persona's loved one has lost his/her love for the persona. The song took a dramatic mode wherein the readers come to know the persona’s feelings, character, actions and emotions. One poetic technique the song poem used is simile – Love is like a never-ending melody. The poem relates love with music elements such as melody and tunes. Having the persona wanting his/her love to bring back the old tune would give readers a serious effect. The song poem had end rhyming at the start not until the end to show how happy their past was and how serious he was now to bring back the melody.
ReplyDelete-Ryan Sibbaluca (Section P): 124 words
Leonard Cohen’s song poem “Dance Me to the End of Love” is mimetic as it represents a clichéd human emotion: love. Since the song poem is in the dramatic mode, it allows the reader to “witness” the persona while he is asking for a dance from the woman he loves. The writer used several devices in the song poem. He used figures of speech such as simile (e.g. like an olive branch), metaphor (e.g. be my homeward dove) and allusion (e.g. Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon). He also repeatedly used the phrase “Dance me” and placed it at the start of almost every other line. He primarily utilized end rhymes such as dove–love, born–outworn–torn, etc. In addition, most lines have 6 or 7 syllables each. Lastly, the effect of the poem is serious as it clearly shows one’s genuine love for another. (150 words)
ReplyDelete- Melissa Manay, Lit14 P
The song “Ode to the Sea” by Pablo Neruda basically presents a conversation between a fisherman and the sea.
ReplyDeleteSome elements that can be seen in the song includes personification where the wave of the sea was given human traits as it “slapped” the rocks and strokes and soaks and smothers the rocks with kisses. Also metaphor can be seen as the song compares the fish caught by the fishermen as “gifts of silver” in their hands. On a more general perspective, if you will look at the poem as a whole, you can see that the poem is written in such a way that it will look like a wavy sea in side view. The effect of the song can be serious because on the last verse, the fishermen plead to the sea to stop its harsh attitude and instead give them fish to catch so they can eat.
- John Vincent C. Lorenzo (Section P) word count: 150
The song "Small, Blue Thing" is about a person who uses a small blue thing as a medium that constantly describes how he is neglected and his feelings in a relationship with a significant other. The song is a narrative type because the song uses alot of I's which is only used when narrating an event. There is a part in the song that uses the word "like" to compare himself to a marble which is defined as a simile. Another device is personification where in the song the small blue thing is able to feel cold, curious, and lost. Finally the song under effects and power leans on the serious type. Mainly because of the words in the song that is able to amplify the effect to a point that it shows a sad and straight forward message that can no longer side rail to laughter.
ReplyDelete-Daryl Royce M. Tanrena, Sec P (147 words)
Suzanne Vega’s Small, Blue Thing is about a “thing” that is round, smooth, cool and curious. I’d say that it is in a narrative mode because though the persona is the “thing” itself, the persona is more on telling his experiences, which also makes it a mimetic poem. Though the poet does not mention what the small, blue thing really is, through her imagery such as the “eye,” “marble,” “made of china”, “made of glass”, she has helped the readers imagine or visualize what she is talking about more easily. Vega also used the technique simile, making the “thing” share with the characteristics of the eye and the marble. The poem is more of the comic side since the word choice, words like “skipped,” “lost inside your pocket,” “raining down in pieces,” to name some, are almost always related to playfulness, making the tone light. (145 words)
ReplyDelete--Jamie Mae Sim Lit14 P
The dramatic poem “Desafinado” somehow talks about a male persona who seems to be talking to his lover while trying to regain her lost love for him. The poem primarily uses a comparison and contrast rhetorical device which revealed the kind of relationship the characters had before while using simile (“Love is like a never-ending melody), metaphors (“A symphony conducted by the lighting of the moon”, “We used to harmonize, two souls in perfect time”) and personification (“our hearts would always croon”) which gave readers an idea of how happy they were up until the time when their love ended up as “desafinado”-slightly out of tune. Finally, it gave a serious effect based on how really faithful the persona’s love for the girl when he convinces her at the end that if she tunes her heart back to him, there’ll be no desafinado anymore. :(
ReplyDelete-Romy Robielos II, Lit-14 P (146 words)
The song ‘The Last Days of the Suicide Kid’ mimics (mimetic) the human condition of loneliness and old age. The persona is similar to that of Resume (Dorothy Parker) who tried to commit suicide multiply times but, in the end, decides to continue on with life. It is told in the narrative-mode of representation; it makes the reader a listener (stories of the kids making fun of him) to his stories. Images are greatly used to play an important role in the song. We are shown through words how a nurse picks a flower to give to the persona. A situational irony was used because we would expect him to kill himself again. But, we learn that something else will commit suicide, a flower. The effect is quite serious because a sacrifice was done just to make someone else feel better.(141 words)
ReplyDeleteHans Christian Yu, Lit14-P
Desafinado is a song about someone asking his or her love to bring back the feelings that the latter used to have for the persona. It is in the dramatic mode since the song addresses to a “you”, so we can say that there is a dialogue. Simile is evident on the first line of the song which tells us clearly that the persona compares love with an unending song. It also compares love to bossa nova. On the other hand, the rest of the song is a metaphor of love in general. The songwriter used words and phrases related to music, such as “out of tune” to compare to the love that has lost, “tune” (noun) to compare to feelings and (verb) to compare to feel, etc. Its effect on the readers is serious since we could sympathize with the persona’s longing for his or her love. (Word Count: 148 Words)
ReplyDelete-Joan Carla Sy, Lit 14 P
the song "ode to the sea" by pablo neruda presents a persona's view towards the sea. The song basically talks about how the sea moves, the actions it does and how it reacts which uses personification. Another element that was used is metaphor comparing different things in the song. The song uses imagery describing actual objects and actions that the water, waves and the sea in does while adding the personification perspective, gives it more drama and effect. Given another observation that the song or poem does not have a certain meter to it, at first glance the song would not look like an actual poem but something like random sentences put together. overall, the song gives its readers a tone that connotes sadness due to its lonely, and harsh use of words. the ending also gives a hint of gloomyness due to the lack of catch.
ReplyDelete(147 words)
Russel Corral, Lit 14-P
*ma'am sorry i didn't have an internet connection so i could'nt post anything please accept*
According to answers.com, desafinado means tuneless or tone-deaf. At first read, “Desafinado” talks about love. The manner in which the song was written is dramatic. The persona is urging his love to come back to him, with the poem as his speech. One of the devices used is simile, seen in 1st stanza, 1st line and 2nd stanza, last line. Another device is personification in the 3rd stanza, “hearts would croon”. The rhetorical device cause and effect was used to show that when a couple is in love, their hearts are in tune and when they’re not, it’s desafinado. Rhyming was also a technique used. The effect is serious; the persona’s lover has fallen out of love with him, thus desafinado, and he just wants to get her back. When couples are completely in love with one another, they are as one.
ReplyDelete-Dianne Laurice Tan, Lit14 P (word count: 142)
The object in the song “Small, Blue Thing” by Suzanne Vega is someone who is not being able to connect with the one she loves. The third stanza of the song suggests how the speaker is unable to grasp on or be together with her lover. Whenever she gets close to him, she always gets rejected. The song uses devices like metaphor and simile as seen in the first paragraph where she compares herself to a small blue marble. The song repeats the words “I am” throughout the song using it to show that she is really affected by the situation. The song brings a serious effect because the tone and diction of the persona gives off a sense of loneliness and sadness.
ReplyDelete-Schevenard Cu, Lit14-P (128 words)
Reuben Koroma’s Living Like a Refugee is mimetic of most people’s tendency to leave their country to seek for refuge or greener pastures and the challenges they encounter from doing so. These people are usually affected by war or economic underdevelopment. The song is narrated, placing the reader as a listener of what the persona might have experienced as a refugee in another country. In terms of technique, imagery is thoroughly used in the poem to emphasize the author’s point of warning the readers of consequences that such action may bring. Rhymes are not heightened as straight-forward diction is evident to easily address the persona’s point. Overall, the song’s seriousness moves readers to see the reality of living in a foreign land to be ironically bringing them to worse dispositions.
ReplyDelete-Ma. Angelica Anne M. Tangco Lit 14 P (word count: 130)
The poem “The Last Days of the Suicide Kid” tells about the human experience of being suicidal because of loneliness and feeling that he doesn’t exist (A mimetic type of poem). This poem is in the mixed mode of representation wherein the persona narrates about his last days but also has a short dialogue between him (“oh, yeah, yeah.”) and the nurse in the poem. Because of its detailed descriptions, the poem uses imagery that let readers visualize the poem. Personification is also used (“eyes rolling backward”, “the mercy of death”). There is also repetition that emphasizes the persona’s feeling of loneliness and non-existence (“and I don’t even exist” said twice in the poem, “brain gone, gamble gone, me, Bukowski, gone”). Lastly, the poem gives a serious effect to its readers because it’s atmosphere or tone is sad and it makes readers sympathize with the persona due to his situation. (word count: 150)
ReplyDeleteLit 14 P
Tan, Ariadne Sharla
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The song poem “Hyper-ballad” by Bjork, for me, is mimetic. It tries to imitate a person who ponders about suicide because of a failing relationship.
ReplyDeleteThis is a narrative poem because it narrates the speaker’s thoughts throughout the poem.
There is a bit of irony in the poem because the speaker imagines committing suicide just to be safe with the person he/she ‘loves’. There is also imagery because the speaker makes the reader imagine the setting of the poem such as “It’s real early morning; no one is awake; I’m back at the cliff; throwing things off”. From the quote, I would say that the diction is quite melancholic since the speaker is alone and is reflecting about his/her relationship and suicide through fragmented and straight-to-the-point words and sentences.
The overall effect of the poem to me is that it is serious because it’s a deep reflection of suicide.
(149 words)
Chester Lorenz Chacon Lit 14 P
Through the first few words, “Do you remember an Inn, Miranda?” of Belloc’s “Tarantella”, we see that the poem is about a person recalling something. The persona, speaking from third person talks to “Miranda” asking if she recalls the same. It isn’t a narrative poem since the persona isn’t telling the story, rather speaking and confirming what he/she recalls. The poem uses imagery as it paint a picture of the things that were present, or experienced, such as “the wine that tasted of tar”. The poem also uses assonance, seen in lines such as “And the fleas that tease in the High Pyrenees”, which along with the other rhymes, make the poem quite light, in turn making it comical in effect. Even so, the poem strikes me as serious because the persona is recalling the experience. Also, the end of the poem shifts tones and becomes more serious. (148)
ReplyDeleteGrace Gana
Section P
Bjork's Hyper-ballad, on a literal level, speaks of a person's weird and secret morning rituals as an object of representation. The song is in the narrative mode. The narrator is telling the events (in a bland straightforward manner) rather than speaking her thoughts, “Every morning I walk towards the edge and throw little things off.”
ReplyDeleteThe poem effectively employs imagery as a device. The scene is “well-painted” - early morning at a house at the top of a mountain, with a cliff nearby. One can also imagine the falling objects, the portruding rocks at the bottom, and the sound that these collisions make.
The overall effect of the song is serious. The monotonous narration and eerie scenery help enhance this effect. The poem's deeper meaning tells of a person in a relationship who releases her repressed fears/anxieties/violence/suicidal thoughts/anger issues by “throw(ing) things off. . .” a cliff.
Villejo, Erwin Dee J.
Section P
(150 words)
Pablo Neruda's song poem "Ode to the Sea," a reflective lyric poem,shows the persona's pondering towards the sea. The poem's persona reflects by describing the actions of the sea by speaking to himself and to the sea in the first person's point of view. The element of personification is very visible here as for instance,"It slaps the rocks." The pleading of the persona towards the end of the poem where it asks for them to "don't waste time" and "help them instead" is clear in the poem. The manner of reperesentaion is in the narrative mode as he recounts on what the sea does. Imagery is also evident in the poem as it creates a mental picture of the sea. The effect of this poem towards the readers is very serious because it shows the persona's sadness which might be a fisherman who is having a hard time fishing. (149 words)
ReplyDelete- CAMILLE T. KOA
SECTION P
The song poem “The flowers of youth” by Tita Lacambra Ayala is about the slow yet harsh disappearance of one’s youth.
ReplyDeleteThe object of representation in the song is the youth of an individual; and using metaphors, she compares it to the falling leaves in the garden, the collapsing bridges, and a distant memory: once glorious but decaying.
The poem is a narrative, for it doesn’t use characters, only the speaker(narrator), and the one she is talking to(reader). the speaker would be most likely an old man/woman speaking to a younger person.
The effect is dominantly serious for it asks the readers to sympathize for themselves; for the poem tells them that they’re beauty is decaying hopelessly.
This can also be said as a “reflective lyric poem” for the speaker is reflecting upon her youth, and just like a stamp, all she has is her memory to remember it by.
Camilo J. Cordero Jr.
Lit14 P
150 words
The object of representation in the poem Desafinado mimics the story of a persona who is in love but sadly, the person he/she is in love with is slowly taking a separate path. The manner of representation is in the dramatic mode because the persona speaks and acts in his/her own person. The means and devices that are commonly used in the poem are simile, metaphor and rhyme. Love was compared to a never-ending melody and symphony which made it a simile and metaphor. Also, the title which means “slightly out of tune” is a metaphor to what is happening to their love. The rhyming words usually followed an aabcc in the first two stanzas but changed towards the end of the poem. Some rhyming words are melody-symphony, moon-tune, pitch-rich, sing-swing, time, time-rhyme and loving-long. The effect given by the poem is serious.
ReplyDeleteDesiree M. Fadri
Lit 14-P
143 words
The “Ode to the Sea” is being told by a fisherman asking the sea to be calm and give them plenty of catch. I have considered the poem as something dynamic. Upon reading the repeated lines “says yes then no,” I felt the waves hitting the shore. I believe the poem is of dramatic mode since I felt like I was there in the shore. There are no signs of imparting something humorous so I considered it serious as well. The poem is very rich with personification− the sea talking, slapping the rocks and soaks them. Lastly, the fisherman’s talking to the sea, I think, is a kind of apostrophe in a way since the sea is something inanimate. Most probably, this is the fisherman’s way of building rapport with the sea since his living depend on it.
ReplyDeleteSydney Dondon (138 words)
Obsession is a mental disorder that was greatly exemplified and represented in Maggie Estep's song poem. It is represented thru a gusto of the persona to someone whom she labels jerk. The poem discussed about how obsession can make one person's life lunatic. It tackled the motions of obsession to the point that we think that our significant other loves us back and becomes our life to the extent that we want to get out of our life thru the means of committing suicide but still settles in being obsessed to that someone because that is the only thing that makes us happy. The poem used repetition, rhyme, simile, metaphor and as well as idioms in its creation of a dramatic situation. The poem will give us a comic relief especially when the persona admits that she is actually happy being obsessed with a jerk.
ReplyDelete145 words-John Albert M. Bonifacio Section P
The song "Desafinado" clearly represents the human behavior of love, and the different issues that surround it. The song is also an example of a mixed mode of representation, as the writer would sometimes explain the scene using the dramatic mode, then shifts to include himself in the song. The author described the meaning of love for him by comparing it to music and melody using similes and metaphors. Desafinado also employs personification by giving "love" human qualities. Lastly, the song's theme is love, a universal theme that affects almost all of us therefore making it's message clear and effective. I was moved by how his love story turned out, and impressed by how he showed his emotions using musical terms.
ReplyDeleteIvan Zamora- 121 words
Reuben Koroma’s “Living like a Refuge” is meant to be ironic. The object basically shows a person leaving behind his home for a better place only to find out that the place he now lives in is no better than where he came from. You never really find feel right at home in your “refuge”.
ReplyDeleteThe song poem is presented in a narrative form with only the narrator speaking. Figures of speeches were also used. The poem itself was a metaphor insinuating that being somebody your not is living like a refuge. Metaphors were further used in illustrating life as a refuge. It used imagery when it was painting a picture of life as a refuge (strange dialects, unusual diets and tarpaulin houses). The imagery was quite depressing thus leaving a serious note to the readers.
Word Count: 136
Literature 14 P
Rosario Terese L. Miranda