Thought this song was particularly poetic, not to mention incredible. Also, the video goes so well with the song. Enjoy
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Friday, April 6, 2012
Not much thought put into this one...
I'll be cliche with this one
'Cause I'm running out of time
When I was one-and-twenty
I think it may have been my prime
Confidence at an all time high
No graduation in sight
The best question to answer...
Are you going out tonight?
As a senior, one year older
I guess I feel the same way
"You only live once"
Now that's the tritest thing to say.
When I was 21?
When I was twenty-one?
Hmm, that was so long ago.
I've been locked up all this time
There's not much point to know.
But now that you are asking
I believe I can remember.
That was the year I did it
On that dark night in December
My time in here has changed me
It has laid down some new tracks
For the best, it rearranged me
I wouldn't take it back.
1 and 20
When I was one-and-twenty
I set out to find
The meaning of this life of ours,
Some guidance for the blind
I thought it would be easy,
A prompt coming of age.
In just a couple weeks
I'll have the wisdom of a sage.
A year has passed. I'm twenty-two.
The only thing I've gained
Is anxiety and pressure
From these thoughts that I have strained
Ashbah by Brian Turner an Iraqi war veteran
The ghosts of American soldiers
wander the streets of Balad by night,
unsure of their way home, exhausted,
the desert wind blowing trash
down the narrow alleys as a voice
sounds from the minaret, a soulfull call
reminding them how alone they are,
how lost. And the Iraqi dead,
they watch in silence from rooftops
as date palms line the shore in silhouette,
leaning toward Mecca when the dawn wind blows.
Easter, 1916 Vs. Break of Day in the Trenches
The poem Easter, 1916 by Yeats uses some obvious and not so obvious metaphors to describe the revolution of Ireland against the British in 1916. I think that Yeats is mainly saying in the first stanza that he is acquaintances with many of the revolutionaries at the time and he may not believe in their revolutionary tactics but he talks to them about it anyway. He then goes on to describe some of the people who were killed by the British whom he knew pretty well. The third stanza I think is talking about how many of the revolutionaries have only one purpose and their hearts are of stone meaning that no matter what happens they want this change in their country. And that many bad things may happen, but they will still fight for their beliefs. The recurring line "A terrible beauty is born" seems to represent the fact that even though many revolutionaries died at the hands of the British for their actions, their deaths inspired the rest of the country to fight for the same reasons they did and the country became more unified against the British.
This poem is different in its message than the poem by Rosenberg called Break of Day in the Trenches. Yeats' poem implies that the war that was fought was meaningful and the deaths of the people he described were important and not in vain. In Rosenberg's poem, he is stating that war is pointless and useless and all it does is cause unnecessary death and destruction. The subject of the poem is praising a rat because he is lucky that he does not have to deal with this war and worry about dying for a useless cause. The language in this poem is more depressing than than of Yeats'.
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