American Song Meaning
In today's culture a vast majority of people enjoy listening to music. Some people may like listening to music during their down time where others might like to pick up a good poem or two to read. Music and poetry have things in common but not many people go beyond knowing the lyrics to a song and finding the true meaning behind the song. In the following paragraphs will explain how lyrics can be compared to poetry through the speaker, symbols and rhyme schemes.
In both poetry and music, the speaker doesn't have to be the author or the artist it can be directed to someone who may have faced the same scenarios. In the song "American Noise" by the band Skillet the lyrics are written towards someone else or they can be about the musician depending …show more content…
These lyrics have so much more meaning behind them beyond being lyrics to a song. Slamming doors from fighting with people you care about to constantly being on your cell phone in this era and then not being able to let out what you are feeling so you just silently scream inside your own head. Then going on to having to wiggle around the rules of society to fit in the American ways but that person doesn't want to fake someone they don't want to be. This is similar to Roethke's poem also, in the first line he doesn't just say that his father is drunk but uses symbols such as the whiskey to make the reader look for the meaning. He also uses other symbols such as the waltz instead of the word stumbles to define the way his father walks.
When listening to music and reading poetry you may find rhyme schemes. In the song lyrics and poem that have been used for examples in the essay they have few words that may rhyme throughout. Songs and poems don't have to rhyme in order to be good. We were all taught to think that poetry has to rhyme in order to be considered anything, just like music doesn’t have rhyme schemes in order to create lyrics out of them. Rhyme schemes can also be hard at times so if a song were to rhyme throughout it may sound repetitive throughout just like a
In both poetry and music, the speaker doesn't have to be the author or the artist it can be directed to someone who may have faced the same scenarios. In the song "American Noise" by the band Skillet the lyrics are written towards someone else or they can be about the musician depending …show more content…
These lyrics have so much more meaning behind them beyond being lyrics to a song. Slamming doors from fighting with people you care about to constantly being on your cell phone in this era and then not being able to let out what you are feeling so you just silently scream inside your own head. Then going on to having to wiggle around the rules of society to fit in the American ways but that person doesn't want to fake someone they don't want to be. This is similar to Roethke's poem also, in the first line he doesn't just say that his father is drunk but uses symbols such as the whiskey to make the reader look for the meaning. He also uses other symbols such as the waltz instead of the word stumbles to define the way his father walks.
When listening to music and reading poetry you may find rhyme schemes. In the song lyrics and poem that have been used for examples in the essay they have few words that may rhyme throughout. Songs and poems don't have to rhyme in order to be good. We were all taught to think that poetry has to rhyme in order to be considered anything, just like music doesn’t have rhyme schemes in order to create lyrics out of them. Rhyme schemes can also be hard at times so if a song were to rhyme throughout it may sound repetitive throughout just like a