Essays on Song Page 4

To say only lasts the moment is it said, to do lasts the lifetime after it has been done. Considering Benjamin Franklin’s aphorism: “Well done is better than well said.” actions do speak louder than words. To prove this, excerpts from six different literature works and a personal experience will have to lend its knowledge….

Introduction: In this experiment the experimenters tried to determine if this clich is true, if people do actually learn better through observation than through words. They taught different children in different ways, some by action, and some by words, in order to determine how they learn better. Hypothesis: I think that the tested children who…

In this passage from David Wallace’s Consider the Lobster. There are many deep thoughts ingrained within the passage. And the author himself discusses many of his actions with regards to what he is saying. Given this, he is not always recognized for being consistent – at points he will address a section stating something about…

We have all sat in a presentation at one time or another and struggled to keep our eyes open or quickly jumped out of daydreaming and wondered how much of the presentation we actually missed. It is sometimes hard to pay attention to people giving presentations and even harder to focus on what they are…

Pink and Billy Mann wrote the song, Dear Mr. President. It was sung by Pink and Indigo girls in 2006. The song is a direct criticism of President George W. Bush and the policies of his administration. Pink address the major concerns of most Americans. The lyrics were written in a straight forward and powerful…

“Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen, a British rock band from the 1970’s, is a very complex and elaborately written and performed song. After a first listen, your senses and feelings are being stretched every which way. The song starts out slow with deeply emotional lyrics that signal deep emotion in the writer. Following the intro, the…

Introduction ”Rat Song” is a poem written by Margaret Atwood and is part of Selected Poems from 1976. What is interesting about the poem is that it is written from the point of view of a rat. And by looking through the eyes of a rat (which many people see as a primitive and inferior…

The nature of the relationships throughout the poem seems to change from a seemingly equal sense of love from both goldfish, to a more one-sided relationship in the last stanza of the poem. In the first stanza the male character is said to be a “drifter”, this foreshadows the later stages of the poem as…

The Cure formed during the Punk era of the 1970’s and they released “The Lovecats” in November of 1982. The song overall has a happy feel, which is supported by the use of an E major key. The song starts off with a snare drum beat which continues throughout the song giving it the same…

Introduction #1: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” By T. S. Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is filled with ethereal imagery of lust, love, and time lost.  The reader must make assumptions about if the time Eliot refers to is real or more a dream-like allusion to a sense of philosophical…