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    holds true because many times words alone can’t touch someone but when you add the accompaniment it speaks volumes. I received the song “Suggestion” by Fugazi‚ and when I listened to it for the first time I just thought it was another song. As I listened to the song more and more and focused on the lyrics and the rhythm‚ the song started to speak to my soul. This song is all about violence on women in the forms of rape‚ sexual harassment‚ violence‚ and street harassment. It also emphasizes the aspect

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    The Chimney Sweeper (Songs of Innocence) Summary The speaker of this poem is a small boy who was sold into the chimney-sweeping business when his mother died. He recounts the story of a fellow chimney sweeper‚ Tom Dacre‚ who cried when his hair was shaved to prevent vermin and soot from infesting it. The speaker comforts Tom‚ who falls asleep and has a dream or vision of several chimney sweepers all locked in black coffins. An angel arrives with a special key that opens the locks on the coffins

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    Emma Allen  To what extent are William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs  of Experience a societal protest against the institutions of 18th  century England?     William Blake‚ born in the 18th century romantic period‚ was one of  England’s most esteemed poets‚ as well as a recognised painter and printmaker.  Two of Blake’s most famous collections are The Songs of Innocence and The  Songs of Experience‚ many of his poems are written in pairs‚ one in each  collection‚ offering similar themes yet differing perspectives

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    Timothy Huebner 3rd Period IB English A1 HL COMPARE AND CONTRAST WILLIAM BLAKE AND JEAN RHYS ESSAY William Blake‚ with his Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience‚ and Jean Rhys‚ in Wide Sargasso Sea‚ utilize extensive symbolism and imagery in their respective works. They use imagery related to nature to symbolize Heaven/Hell or good/evil. They also use this imagery to emphasize the morals of their literary works and indicate‚ in the case of Wide Sargasso Sea‚ how the current events would

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    Love Song Analysis

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    where there is sexual chemistry and passion‚ and then there’s also the kind of love you feel for your family or a close friend. Either way its love and its special and we all need it in our lives. The assignment we were given is to analyze love songs from a specific decade. The objective of this is to determine how communication in and about relationships has transformed over the years‚ as well as to show how standards that define good communication and good relationship has changed. The decade my

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    Country Song Analysis

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    The world of a country song writer is a different one‚ requiring him to prove his capability time and again. With millions of aspiring artists that make their appearance on the scene annually‚ the song writer has to work very hard to stay adrift otherwise he is likely to sink into anonymity before he can even realize it. A song writer has to face stiff competition and this aspect is even more emphatically seen in the case of the genre of country song writing. This is because country lyrics are comparatively

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    ENG 101-ABT 2 Song Lyric Analysis “Knocking on Heaven’s Door” by Guns N’ Roses Written by Bob Dylan The song I have chosen to analysis is “Knocking on Heaven’s Door” by Guns N’ Roses. My interpretation of the song is that it’s referring to someone who is experiencing the end stages of life. The song uses symbolism to describe the feelings of anger and remorse. Overall‚ the song is talking about a person who sees the end in sight‚ and must come to grips with it. (Verse 1) Mama take this

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    they tend to disconnect from the world and go into one of their own. In this place they find comfort and safety and it is somewhere that no one can bother them for the time being. I myself find comfort just lying in my bed staring at the ceiling and drifting off in thought. For artists though‚ they are able to find this comforting place in music. Blink 182‚ Linkin Park‚ and NAS are some of the famous artists that are able to disconnect from the world through their songs. They are able to get

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    MCM 102/Sec. #2 Dec 14‚ 2010 Critical Evaluation 998 The Failure of the American Presidency "Mosh" by Eminem is a protest song that was released in 2004 before the presidential election. The word "Mosh" itself refers the aggressive behavior in which audience members or fans react in a live music performance. The song is taken from the album Encore and was produced by Ian Inaba of GNN TV; Guerrilla News Network‚ a private website and television production company in which its

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    Romantic era. Introduction to Songs of Experience is the first poem in the Songs of Experience poetry set in Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. The poem is organized in four stanzas‚ where each of them contains five lines. The third and fourth lines of each stanza have less beats than any other lines in the verse. The rhyme in every stanza is consistent‚ which is in ABAAB form. In this poem the tone is criticizing. In William Blake’s Introduction to Songs of Experience‚ the poet uses auditory

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