Sample Sound Effects in Poetry Assignment

“Pieces of Me”-Ashlee Simpson

On a Monday I am waiting

Tuesday, I am fading

And by Wednesday, I can't sleep

Then the phone rings, I hear you

And the darkness is a clear view

Cause you’ve come to rescue me

Fall, with you I fall so fast

I can hardly catch my breath

I hope it lasts

Ohhhh

It seems like I can finally

Rest my head on something real

I like the way that feels

Ohhhh

It's as if you know me better

Than I ever knew myself

I love how you can tell

All the pieces, pieces, pieces of me

All the pieces, pieces, pieces of me

I am moody and messy

I get restless and it's senseless

How you never seem to care

When I'm angry, you listen

Make me happy, it's your mission

And you won't stop till I'm there

Fall, sometimes I fall so fast

When I hit that bottom crash

You're all I have

Ohhhh

It seems like I can finally

Rest my head on something real

I like the way that feels

Ohhhh

It's as if you know me better

Than I ever knew myself

I love how you can tell

All the pieces, pieces, pieces of me

How do you know

Everything I'm about to say

Am I that obvious?

And if it's written on my face

I hope it never goes away

Yeah!

On a Monday I am waiting

And by Tuesday I am fading

Into your arms

So I can breathe

Ohhhh

It seems like I can finally

Rest my head on something real

I like the way that feels

Ohhhh

It's as if you know me better

Than I ever knew myself

I love how you can tell

Ohhhh

I love how you can tell

Ohhhh

I love how you can tell

All the pieces, pieces, pieces of me

All the Pieces, pieces, pieces of me

Key:

End Rhyme = red

Assonance = blue

Consonance = orange

Alliteration = green

Refrain = purple

A song to match my American Dream

My Love for you is real, by Ryan Adams

My love for you is real

It moves like he summer breeze

My love for you is strong

Lord, it brings me to my knees

 

It was born in the wild

It’s river long, rock strong

True and wild as hell

Honey now, my love for you is real

 

My love for you is calm

Candy sweet and thunder strength

My love for you is wild

It breaks the locket’s  [incomprehensible]

 

My love for you is long

It crossed the oceans on a sail

My love for you is true

Meanings change but not the tale

 

It was born in the wild

It’s river long, rock strong

True and never [incomprehensible]

Honey now, my love for you is real

 

Oh, it’s real, oh, it’s real, oh

Honey now, my love for you is real

Like most people, part of my American Dream is to have someone to love and grow old with.  I think that this song can relate to that in several ways.  It simply talks about love - and a love that is "real" and "strong," "long" and "wild," one that contains "sweet" as well as "strength."  This can be for the love of a spouse/significant other or love for a child or a parent.  In my view in order to be happy one needs to surround oneself with love - love of self and love of others.  

I think Ryan Adams' song does a great job in expressing this idea of love.  One wants a true and honest love and that is the kind he is describing in his song.  Let's look at the way uses metaphor to describe this love:

"It moves like a summer breeze" means that it is refreshing - and real love is refreshing!  Think about a really hot day where you are sweating and along comes a nice breeze - don't you enjoy that!  

"It's river long" means that it is unending - because rivers don't really have an end, do they?  Rivers run into larger bodies of water, so they actually never end but keep going.  That's the kind of love that I want.

"It crossed the oceans on a sail" means dedication and endurance.  Do you know how long it would take to cross the ocean by sail?  That is dedication - and dedication is real love.

I wish some of the lyrics were a bit more comprehensible.  This just happens to be one of my favorite songs and perhaps that is because it is a song that I can relate to in my American Dream, in what I want to get out of life.