Compare And Contrast Music And Poetry

Music and poetry are two of the many artistic ways people express themselves in their everyday lives. Some say that poetry is more artistic than music and vise versa to other. It is nearly impossible to compare all poetry and all music and say one is more artistic than the other. When someone compare one song and one piece of poetry it is easier to see which one gets the main point across the best and which is more artistic while still conveying the theme. The message or theme of the 2 pieces of literature that are being compared is that society today is so caught up in technology that they do not take a minute and look around to see how beautiful everything is around them. The song “Tiny Glowing Screens pt.1” by Watsky is more poetic and artistic
The song gives many metaphors about how technology changing things. Watsky also makes some connections to his own life in the song. “It really tastes like chicken when I bite the hand that feeds me” (Watsky line 12). This lyric is a connection to his own life because he got his start on YouTube, the internet that he disses is in fact the thing that got him famous. This also connects to the saying “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you” which means to not turn against the ones you depend on. Another quote that connects to how technology is changing things is “‘Cause it’s been getting so hot” (Watsky line 17). This seems pretty vague but what he is saying is that technology not necessarily phones and computers but technologies such as coal & oil extractions, natural gas extractions and technologies like these are causing global warming and no one really cares because they are so preoccupied with gadgets and such. These are just a couple of metaphors that are scattered around throughout the song, but there is a main focus in the
“I bathe my television / in total attention” (Siato line 1). This poem is mainly talking about how a lot of people are so wrapped up in the lives of people on the television and not focused on their own lives. This leads us into our next quote “Sometimes my mother calls / and I don’t answer” (Siato line 5-6). The person being depicted would not even move their arm to pick up the phone and talk to their mother, imagine all the things they would not do either. The poem is mainly written in blank verse which is a piece of literature that does not have a rhyme scheme, which does not give it any disadvantage to getting the theme across but for many people songs get themes across better than poems. “It is certainly true that poems are taught (for better or worse) in classrooms and made a part of the canon of literature, whereas songs, especially popular ones, usually are not” (Zapruder). Here the author of this article is saying that in schools poems are boring in a sense to some students, but some think that when they are reading and analyzing lyrics it is much easier because you can connect more. Also that schools do not show song lyrics in the same way as poems and other literature which may make students think they are not equivalent to each