Am Offering This Poem, Ode To My Socks, And All Of Me

I selected “I am Offering This Poem,” Ode to My Socks,” and “Bonny Barbara Allan” for all having a common theme. I also selected “All of Me” by John Legend, “The Gift” by Jim Brickman, and “Don’t Let Me Down” by the Chainsmokers. The common theme of all of these is love. Love is an intense feeling of deep affection, and all three of these poems, and songs contain the definition of love.

First, I found a connection with the poem “I Am Offering This Poem” and song “All of Me” by John Legend. In “I Am Offering This Poem” Jimmy Santiago Baca writes, “I have nothing else to give you.” In this poem the poet has nothing else left to give her because he gave her all his love in the poem. In the song “All of Me” by John Legend, he sings, “Cause all
In the poem “Ode to My Socks,” the poet writes, “I resisted the mad impulse to put them into a golden cage.” In this poem the poet loves his handmade socks from Maru so much that he doesn't want to wear the pair of socks because of how warm and soft they are. In the song “The Gift” Jim sings, “You gave your love away .... for the gift.” In this song it delivers a message of putting love into people, and also gifts. Then receiving those gifts of love back. In both the poem, and the song, they put their love into a form of a gift. Which then gives the person receiving the gift the same feelings of deep affection of the creator. Another connection I made between the song and poem is when Jim Brickman sang, “But the colors will fade away.” And when the poet writes, “Like explores in the jungle who have over the very rare green deer to the spit and eat it with remorse.” In both it describes how the socks and deer meat will not be warm, and tasty forever before it spoiled, but the love and taste for them will never
In the poem “Bonny Barbara Allan” the poet writes, “Will save me from my dying.” In this poem William loves Barbara Allan, but is denied by Barabara for a kiss to save him from dying. In the song “Don’t Let Me Down” the Chainsmokers sing, “Stranded, reaching out, I call your name, but you're not around. In the song they don’t want their companion to let them down, and not love them. In both the poem, and the song they want their love of their life to love them back. Another connection I made with the song and poem is when the Chainsmokers sang, “That you’ll be here, when I need you the most.” And the poet wrote, “I’ll die for him tomorrow.” In the end they both needed each other to live, therefore Barbara died for William, and after that the rose and the briar ran round each