Goodbye. Something you don’t expect fairytales to end with – especially for fictitious romances that are supposed to be a whirlwind and last forever. In this unit, we analyzed the cinematic elements (music, lighting, framing, etc) of two films and compared how they utilized them to further their plot. Both my films, La La Land and Edward Scissorhands, were romance films, but they don’t end with a happily ever after. Instead, elements such as lighting and music were purposefully contrasted to foreshadow the inevitable separation of both relationships.
In this unit, I was grateful to learn the importance of music (or the lack thereof) can influence the atmosphere of a scene. Music is usually thought of as being one-dimensional, such that if there is sad music, the scene is sad; if there is happy music, the scene is happy. However, throughout this unit, I was able to learn that music in films isn’t as clear cut as day and night. first off, there is both non diegetic and diegetic sounds, which can also play at the same time, lead into each other, overlay, etc. Also to factor in, the volume of these sounds and how even silence can be utilized to invoke a message. Repetitions and variations of the songs exist as well and can change the mood of a scene despite having been played before. All these factors of music/sounds contribute to the atmosphere of the scene, but it is rarely thought about when being discussed.
Oh! Well, you’ve stumbled upon a different kind of radish field!
Moos (meaning radish in Korean) is the fandom name for the K-pop group Mamamoo, clearly derived from the band’s name.
Who Are They?
Mamamoo is a 4 member girl group from RBW entertainment. They’re mostly known for their vocal talent as well their varied discography. The blend of their unique voices and perfect harmonies has gotten them far, from starting as an unknown group from a small company, to a popular group that continues to b r e a k stereotypes in the K-pop world.
But it was only around their “Yes I Am”era that Mamamoo started to cement themselves as legitimate artists as well as becoming icons for feminism in the industry.
The music video is comprised of the members acting confident and funny
That song spotlights each member’s unique qualities and teaches the audience to not be so focused on typical beauty standards or expectations by accepting what makes them special.
Through all their music and projects, they’ve established themselves as strong, independent artists who break away from the mold and continue to push the boundaries of music, fashion, and beauty standards!
I think often times, pop music gets a lot of hate that it doesn’t necessarily deserve. Musicians, the general public, and the pretentious music connoisseurs (who are actually just people that think they’re knowledgable on music after listening to Mozart once) all like to complain about how over-generalized and copy-paste the pop industry has become. It always boils down to this:
1. No one who sings pop music has any musical talent
Personally, I feel it’s ignorant to say that pop music takes no talent, because many of these artists are skilled, but their choice of genre (pop) restricts them from breaking out of people’s preconceived image of ‘pop stars’ and becoming something more. You see, the problem with pop music isn’t the people, it’s the fact that it has become a “hit-making machine.” Artists understand that the songs that become popular are the songs that are the most catchy. This has led to an industry filled with the same artists trying to release radio-topping singles all with the same ear worm tune that gets stuck in people’s heads, making them want to keep hearing it.
Artists now believe the only way to earn exposure is by having constant Number 1 hits, prioritizing quantity over quality. When their sole aim is to become famous through radio directed hits, their intentions for being a musician no longer is to produce music for themselves, but for fame.
Pop music is widely hated because it’s created for mass appeal, not bothering to take risks with its musical direction. Pop doesn’t lack quality, it just does not strive to be more than a straightforward tune with catchy lyrics.
Like Broken Record(s)
However, the same artists that are now considered revolutionary and have produced classic hits once started as pop artists too. In actuality, pop music doesn’t lack talented singers or people with the ‘it’ factor. When examined, these ‘timeless artists’ started with pop and were regarded as pop artists until they broke out of the mold.
1. Legendary boy group The Beatles, who broke numerous charts and records were also a pop group until they expanded to songs with more instrumental influence and serious lyrics. “Love Me Do” (one of their earlier songs) is clearly not on the same lyrical level as “Tomorrow Never Knows” (came out 3 years later).
2. Alanis Morisette debuted with her hit song, “Too Hot”. Like most of today’s pop songs, “Too Hot” is a catchy tune with that features surface level lyrics. Eventually, Alanis Morisette became the household name that she is when she transitioned from pop to grunge with classic songs like “You Oughta Know”.
These artists didn’t get magically better out of nowhere, but it was a matter of them gaining more credibility as an artist as their material became more serious. Perhaps when the older generation reminisce about “classic artists” like The Beatles, they only remember these people through rose tinted glasses and sing their praises like a broken record. The same things they complain about now are the things their parents complained about when they were younger and listening to the younger versions of classic artists.
“Modernity Has Failed Us”
The lyrics of pop songs sound very superficial and lazily written because pop music is overgeneralized and because the lyrics are played over simple, radio-directed tracks. The song lyrics to certain popular songs especially proves that musicians (like The 1975) can produce deep and meaningful song lyrics.
A state of the union address for a fractured planet – Tom Connick (NME, 2018)
You want deep song lyrics? The 1975 will hit you with a whole song about everything wrong with our world.
Every sentence is loaded with cultural references. Even if it’s not heard in the song, it’s shown in the video.
Everything from selling melanin to Eric Garner to our flawed the prison system. The 1975 was not afraid to lay out humanity’s wrongdoings plain and simple in the form of a 4:25 minute song.
“Selling melanin and then suffocate the black men Start with misdemeanours and we’ll make a business out of them”
Melanin: Matty (lead singer) references to “selling melanin” – a recent phenomenon that ironically sees the rich and white purchasing melanin to purposefully make their skin darker. It exposes the irony and hypocrisy that is white people darkening their skin, amidst ongoing racism.
Eric Garner: The second reference “…and then suffocate the black men,” follows up white people’s idolisation of darker skin, with the phone-shot video of the death of Eric Garner, a African American man choked to death in New York by a police officer. The killing broke NYPD codes of conduct, which sparked nationwide protests, but also goes to show how ironic it is that white people somewhat fetishize the idea of darker skin when, for centuries, it has been the target of racism and discrimination.
Prison: In “Start with misdemeanours and we’ll make a business out of them,” Matty references to the increasing privatisation of the prison system, which had controversy not properly rehabilitating the prisoners, but instead, was a way for the rich to get richer off the private sectors.
These 3 topics alone were covered all in a 9 second span of time from 0:34-0:43, but is only a brief microcosm of the whole song.
Funny how a call to action for the world to admit its wrongs is being delivered in the form of a 4 minute pop song when the president of a first world country doesn’t even recognize global warming…And pop songs are the ones usually being trashed
In a sense, that’s what lyrics are for; Giving you hope when you’ve lost yours.
Like the song says: “Modernity has failed us, and I’d love it if we made it” the lyrics symbolize the hope we hold in our society and as individuals that we will be able to learn from our mistakes and continue to live.
I know lyrics are just words, but words are power.
Music is about changing society by inspiring individuals – Matty Healy (The Guardian, 2018).
MLA Citations:
– The 1975. “Modernity Has Failed Us.” Genius, Genius Media Group Inc., 19 July 2018, genius.com/15014723.
– Connick, Tom. “A State-of-the-Planet Address: Every Reference in The 1975’s Powerful ‘Love It If We Made It’ Video.” NME, NME, 16 Oct. 2018, www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/1975-love-it-if-we-made-it-video-explained-2390473.
– Theodosion, Constantine. “Why does pop music get so much hate?” Quora. 2 Aug. 2017, https://www.quora.com/Why-does-pop-music-get-so-much-hate
– Snapes, Laura. “Matt Healy of the 1975: ‘I’m Not Scared of Myself Any More’.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 20 July 2018, www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jul/20/matt-healy-of-the-1975-im-not-scared-of-myself-any-more.
How much did you know about Chemistry when we started? When we first started, all I really knew about chemistry was from our short unit last year. Even then, I forgot a lot of what we learned. I really only knew a little bit about chemical reactions and the periodic table. I feel like after this unit, I really learned a lot more about chemistry, but I know there’s still so much more that chemistry offers and we haven’t gotten into yet.
What learner profile best describes your approach to this unit? I think the learner profile that describes my approach in this unit is open minded. This unit was pretty different from the other units we did throughout the year, so it was a bit hard to understand what was going on at first. However, as the unit went on, I learned how to be open to this topic (chemistry) and that helped me to learn.
Considering you will have Chemistry next year in G9–how will you prepare for the class over the summer?
What is one goal you will set for yourself for the Chemistry class next year? I think I have a lot to learn over the summer, especially about chemistry, and that’s what this unit taught me. There’s so many different things like moles, atoms, balanced equations, these things are all going to be in next year’s classes, so it would be nice for me to learn what they are over the summer. I think I want to set the goal of having a good basis of understanding for chemistry (knowing the basics of most common elements and how they react/relate to each other).
In the book American Born Chinese, Gene Luen Yang shows how other people’s words at an early age can change one’s behavior towards other people through Jin’s childhood relationship with his classmates and teacher.When Jin transfers to his new school, he is one of the only Asians in his class and unfortunately, Jin notices that his classmates are only focused on stereotypes. “Rumors began to circulate that Suzy and I were arranged to be married on her thirteenth birthday. We avoided each other as much as possible.” (31).His classmates don’t like Jin because his culture is not like theirs and since they feel that Jin is very different from them due to his race, they come up with stereotypes that further isolate Jin from them. They do not want anything to do with him or know very much about his culture, which is why they make hurtful comments to Jin. Their relationship (making rude comments towards Jin) stems off of hate from the classmates, which causes Jin to feel self conscious about his Asian heritage. From the moment he stepped into class, he was already subjected to the underlying racism that exists in American culture from his classmates. These rumors are based off of stereotypes that Chinese people are still very primitive in their ways and since neither Suzy or Jin wants to be associated with something so negative, they avoided each other, in turn, avoiding that specific stereotype. Jin is being exposed to stereotypes and racism from classmates and teachers early on and this type of interaction leaves a mental scar that stays with him, not just for that day, but for years to come. These types of interactions where the teacher and classmate assume he eats dogs makes him try his hardest to avoid fulfilling the Asian stereotypes that they expect him to satisfy, so anything that deals with Asian culture, even if it’s something as simple and as innocent as interacting with another Asian classmate, Jin avoids it. The rumors are ignorant to the point where it’s outright racist, but since Jin is so young, this is all he is used to and all he knows.From that point on, Jin has unconsciously decided he wants nothing to do with Asians because just a few seconds later, he avoids contact with the only other Asian in the class, Suzy, for the rest of the year. Due to other people’s hatred of Asian culture, Jin was also influenced because he believes all the negative rumors his classmates have told him, and doesn’t want to be associated as Asian anymore. Without even noticing, Jin’s perception of Asians, especially himself, has been affected by the negative rumors that surrounded him at a vulnerable age. It took away his behavior and identity as an Asian because it made him feel like there was no place for Asians in America. What his classmates said heavily influenced his life and the way he portrays himself to others.
MLA citation: Yang, Gene. American Born Chinese. First Second, 2006.
Illustrator TIEA:
In the graphic novel American Born Chinese, Gene Luen Yang and Lark Pien use recurring characters and choice in color in order to emphasize meaning behind Jin’s transformation to the audience. Jin was so caught up in wanting to feel like an American that he betrayed Wei Chen’s trust, but still felt no remorse when he went to sleep at night. In the illustration, Jin dreams that the herb woman that told him he could be anything he wants to be if he sells his soul, came back and transformed Jin into what he desires to be. (Yang, Pien, 194). In the page, Jin’s transformation to an American is made all the more prominent by a physical depiction of the contrast between Jin’s old body, and Jin as an American. From the picture, the use of the woman from his childhood, it shows the audience that Jin is willing to do anything to become an American because then he will be what he has always wanted to be. When Jin was young, his perception of the woman was that she was crazy to think he would do something as drastic as sell his soul in order to become a transformer. However, when the woman comes back in his life, this time as a dream, the difference in how Jin used to think and what Jin thinks now is made more clear to the audience because now, Jin is willing to do anything to become American, including losing his identity as an Asian. Although Jin thought he would never do something like sell his soul, after seeing Jin transform into an American, the idea that Jin didn’t sell his soul, but rather, lost a part of it is given to the audience by how quickly Jin made the decision to forget his Asian identity. The black background gives off the effect that the readers are now in Jin’s mind and they can see all the things that he desires most. In his mind, Jin has turned himself into what he’s always wanted to be. The readers are able to see how drastic the difference between what Jin sees himself as and what Jin desires for others to see him as because the illustrator chose to gradually change the colors of Jin’s face on the same page until he was blonde and his eyes were blue. To be able to see the process of transforming through his hair color, the audience is shown the contrast between Jin’s 2 identities. The first is Jin’s identity as an Asian, shown on the left, before his transition. His second identity is the American part of him, his desire to look like how everyone else around him looks and how he feels like American on the inside, but doesn’t look like one. The contrast in the colors highlights to the audience how the different the 2 cultures/identities within Jin are. It shows how different Jin desires to be from his Asian heritage and since the black background conveys the idea that the readers are in Jin’s mind, it’s almost as if the audience is able to see how Jin’s 2 identities are fighting with each other in his mind to be “Jin’s true identity”. Jin’s mind is confused as to whether he is Asian or whether he is American because although it is obvious that he is physically Asian, Jin feels and relates more towards his American identity, so putting his physical transformation between both identities on the same page is emphasizing to the readers that Jin doesn’t want to be Asian anymore because he feels more like an American. By only describing the mental change in Jin would not be able to show how much his mindset on being an Asian has changed, but through an illustration of physical change in Jin, the contrast in Jin is much more prominent.
MLA citation: Yang, G., Lark, P. American Born Chinese. First Second, 2006.
We’re supposed to conduct an interview in Japanese, one student is the reporter (Cheyenne) and one student is the person being interviewed (Paula). We have time to prepare questions for each person to answer on a subject. In my interview, I was assigned to the topic of talking about students, so Cheyenne asked me questions about how I felt about the students at KAS, their English abilities, and what they want to be when they grow up.
Poetry is a lot of things. For some, it’s a way of expressing themselves. It’s storytelling without all the unnecessary words. It can mean anything you want it to mean. It’s complicated but so simple. That’s the beauty of poetry.
For every person that reads those words, it takes on different meaning and form that is unique to each individual. People can spend hours analyzing and annotating a single poem and still never know what exactly the author is trying to tell the readers. Or maybe the author’s intent was right in front of our faces the whole time and we just overcomplicated the entire theme of the poem. Maybe the author meant for the readers to decide the meaning of the poem for themselves. Who knows? It’s poetry. Use the words to find yourself, then maybe other people can find you.
Two Poem Annotation:
Pleasures of Ordinary Life Annotation:
Phenomenal Woman Annotation:
Two TIEA Paragraphs:
Pleasures of Ordinary Life TIEA:
In Pleasures of Ordinary Life, Judith Viorst uses first person point of view/perspective to inspire readers to learn how to find happiness in the small and ordinary things.Viorst draws from her own personal experiences and failures in life that have led her to being content in a life that’s not as she envisioned by saying,
It seems the woman I’ve turned out to be
Is not the heorine of some grand story.
But happiness arrived in new disguises:
Sun lighting a child’s hair. A friend’s embrace. (14-15, 9-10).
Viorst chooses to use words like “I’ve” in order to be able to talk about her own personal experiences which allow her to establish trust with the reader. Since Viorst is using first person perspective to discuss the dreams she had that didn’t come true,the readers feel like the author can relate to the sadness that comes along with realising they didn’t become who they wanted to be. After she has established trust with the readers that she understands their disappointment with themselves, she changes the topic and in line 9-10, instills motivation by discussing how she gradually found happiness in simple things like a sun lighting a child’s hair or just a friend’s hug. She is able to inspire readers to find happiness in their own lives because by discussing her own broken dreams, the readers feel as if she’s been in their position before and if she has been able to be content in her life as it is now, then the readers can also be like her and be happy in the small things. She gives them hope that failure or not succeeding doesn’t mean they can’t be happy.
Viorst, Judith. “Pleasures of Ordinary Life,” Poem Hunter. 3, January, 2003. Wed. 19 April, 2018.
Phenomenal Woman TIEA:
In Phenomenal Woman, Maya Angelou uses imagery to empower women to feel proud of themselves and feel comfortable in their own skin, no matter what they look like.Angelou talks about how although she doesn’t have the physical attributes that people would label as pretty, men and women find themselves being drawn into the aura her attributes give off, saying
It’s the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
And the joy in my feet.
I’m a woman.
Phenomenally. (22-23, 25-27).
Angelou is first able to draw the reader’s attention to her running list of physical features because the detailed description of each trait makes the readers give more thought to the meaning of each line. However Angelou uses imagery in an interesting way that gives each trait a deeper meaning than just being a detailed description, she uses imagery to empower women. In the first line of evidence, the author of course does not literally mean she has fire in her eyes, but wants to bring out the amount of passion and fight that she has sand needs to have in order to fight against the prejudice she faces from being a woman. The second line is talking about the brightness and confidence that emits from the radiance of her smile. When she looks at you, because of the confidence in her smile, she brightens up the room like a flash of light. When you read the third line, you are able to feel the aura that she gives off when she dances. Since Angelou uses descriptive words like ‘joy in my feet,’ the readers know immediately that she looks happy when she dances and she’s able to influence people around her to also share her excitement when they see her dance. Angelou is telling people through the depth of her imagery that it’s not the physical features themselves that make her attractive, but the way her confidence and self-love seeps through her features and makes them attractive. It’s not her eyes that are attractive, but the passion in her eyes.
In Pleasures of Ordinary Life by Judith Viorst and Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou, both authors use first person point of view to inspire their audiences to feel a certain way. Viorst and Angelou both mention their past experiences with feeling like failure and learning to embrace what it means to be a woman in order to build a level of trust with the readers before talking about how they’ve moved on or realised the true meaning of beauty.
But I have learned to find the poetry
In what my hands can touch, my eyes can see. (Viorst, line 16-17).
But they can’t touch
My inner mystery. (Angelou, line 33-34).
In the first 2 lines Viorst starts to talk about how she has overcome her feelings of being a failure and has gradually learned to find the poetry. She’s using poetry as a metaphor for happiness, because often times, like happiness, it’s a lot harder to write poetry when you’re forcing yourself to write. It’s the same with happiness, a lot harder to find when you are forcing yourself to be happy or find happiness. Instead, Viorst is saying in the second line that she has learned how to let the words and the poem come naturally to her. She no longer racks her brain to force words out onto paper, but feels the poetry in the moment. If she sees something she feels overcome with motivational to write about, then she will write because it’s something she wants to do. It’s her way of saying she will feel happiness in the moment instead of trying to fake her joy. The author uses first person perspective throughout the 2 lines, which ties the concept of being happy to her poetry. This is done well by using first person point of view as she talks about poetry, but then as she talks about feeling inspired to write, the subject becomes more vague, switching to talk about both poetry and happiness while keeping the first person point perspective. The audience sees how she was inspired by poetry to not force herself to feel upbeat and are also inspired to be content in whatever they feel, whether it’s sad, joyful, anger, or any other emotion. The and 2nd author, Angelou, also uses first person point of view to inspire woman to focus on more than just looks using her own experiences. The 3rd and 4th lines are referring to how people wonder how she is beautiful without having the standard beauty ideals. Angelou tries to get the point across to the readers that her “inner mystery” or what makes her special is not on the outside, but on the inside. Since so many people have wanted to tear down her self esteem by saying she’s not physically pretty or has features that fit the normalised idea of pretty, she wants the readers to know she is not phased by what they comment about her her appearance because they can’t touch her soul, and that’s what makes her pretty, but above all, it’s what makes her phenomenal. Readers are inspired by her poem because she uses her personal experience to empower women to embrace their inner beauty.
Contrast:
In the poem Pleasures of Ordinary Life by Judith Viorst and Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou, the authors use poetic devices such as rhyming and repetition differently in order to serve different intents. In Pleasures of Ordinary Life, Viorst uses a clear cut rhyme scheme of ABABB throughout the entirety of the poem to tie in the idea of pursuing a content fulfilled life through all stanzas.
It’s time to make things good, not just make do.
It’s time to stop complaining and pursue (Viorst, line 4-5).
Since she keeps going back to this idea of wanting to pursue a life where she’s content in the ordinary, the best way to help the readers remember and take note of this concept is to bring it up over and over again. However, she achieves this not by using repetition, but by Rhyming helps the readers to remember the poem better because it gives the poem a beat that makes the poem easy to read. Viorst takes advantage of the recurrence of sounds that occur in rhyming to present a recurrence of the same ideas because the music of rhyme helps readers to remember. rhyming instead. Then using rhyme, she continuously talks about getting herself out of the funk, in the poem, and talks about it twice already in the evidence. In Phenomenal Woman, Angelou uses repetition along with rhyme in order to get the readers to take note of the big idea, so she repeats the same rhyme over and over throughout the poem saying,
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal Woman,
That’s me. (Angelou, line 11-13).
The idea of being unapologetically a woman is repeated through the whole poem, but the part that readers pay attention to is the rhyme that is repeated in each stanza. Angelou takes a different approach from Viorst and instead of changing the rhyme constantly, she uses the same repeated rhyme to help her emphasise the point that she is an unbelievable woman. Through rhyming, the author is able to create a pattern that she repeats in order to create meaning. It is because repetition creates a sense of hope for the readers in this poem, that Angelou continues to use the same rhyme. The readers are bombarded with the recurrence of these lines, especially the word “phenomenal”, which leads them to feel as if maybe the author wants them to remember she is phenomenal/women are phenomenal. Angelou stresses the idea that women are not just unique and amazing, but they are so much more powerful than that, they are phenomenal.
Inspirational Poem – All I Hear:
They laugh and say
“We’re not laughing at you, we’re laughing with you.”
But it feels like they’re just trying to downplay,
In a way,
The judgement behind those words.
I scoff and pretend I’m not the same, but
Am I like them?
Every word that comes out of her lips, clouded by the faint sound of her foreign accent.
Her words hold the weight of the world,
The finality in leaving,
The pain of starting over,
But all I hear is broken English.
Am I like them?
How dare I be ashamed when she was the bridge between two cultures,
And her words were like the stories of the travelers who crossed the bridge.
Stories I never heard.
Words I never bothered to listen to.
Am I like them?
She could’ve spoken in every other language,
She could’ve told me everything.
But I preferred the deafening silence.
I am like them.
I don’t want to be.
I won’t be.
Inspirational Poem Slideshow:
Hope Imagery Flipgrid:
Hope Imagery Poem – Hope Makes Us Believe:
My hope feels like the soft red cloth that wraps your neck like a cape.
My hope tastes like the endless boxes of cereal kids go through in their relentless search for that one toy.
My hope looks like the thousands of people, young and old, all marching for their rights.
My hope smells like the disinfectant of hospitals as parents wait an eternity for their comatose child to wake.
My hope sounds like the rhythmic pattern of feet against pavement long after practice has ended.
My hope is for people to hold onto their hopefulness (because it’s the only reason they try).
What was the hardest part of this task? Easiest? I think the hardest part of this task is figuring out your dependent variables and how you’re going to measure them. For me, I didn’t really want to do anything with frequency because I thought everyone would do it, so I decided to measure amplitude. However, I didn’t really know what units amplitude used, especially since it’s measured in meters. I had to do some research about how to measure of amplitude using digital apps and digital measures. I thought the easiest part was making the instrument because it was actually fun, so it didn’t feel like work.
One of the Approaches to Learning (ATL) suggested for Science in the MYP is stated below:
Social skills–Practise giving feedback on the design of experimental methods
Discuss the statement above as you reflect on your planning and building of your instrument. I thought the way that this summative was designed, it gave a lot of room for others to reflect on our instrument and for us to reflect on our instrument. By having to explain to the class and give a demonstration, I think the students were given a chance to think about what they wanted their variables to be and how they wanted the class to view their experiment. It makes people really think about what they want to do in their experiment if they know other people will listen to them talk about it.
How successful was your instrument in the 5 tests? Which test(s), if any, did your instrument fail? Be honest! Discuss your ideas on how to improve your instrument. I think my instrument didn’t do very well in holding up throughout the whole of the project. The cardboard that held up the instrument was too flimsy to keep holding up the milk bottles, so we had to make some adjustments to the design of the instrument in order to help support the weight of the bottles and take pressure off of the thin piece of cardboard. We ended up having to cut foam and put it underneath the glass bottles.
Discuss why you built the instrument you did? Do you play a similar instrument? Was it an instrument you thought would be easy to be successful building, intrigued or challenged you? I play piano and violin, but it wasn’t really like them. It’s probably most similar to the piano however, the mechanics work differently. I would like to explore wind instruments like the flute Paul made because it seemed to work really well.
In this assignment, we’re trying to find the many different types of literary devices that artists usually use in song in order to enhance their message or to make things sound better. Poetic devices is often used in modern day music, but we often don’t realize it because it is so engrained into our understanding and expectations of music. The lyrics of these songs can sometimes sound like a poem because of the use of poetic devices. We made a video in which you will be able to see examples of different poetic devices in modern music.
