Jazz music sound soft and mellow as playing on however like all music, it tells a story and here are the stories of “Fly Me to the Moon”, “Waltz for Debby” and “Ancient Memories”. “Fly Me to the Moon”, written by Bart Howard and arranged by Sammy Nestico, is an upbeat standard sung most famously by Frank Sinatra. In the instrumental version of this song, a Latin-inspired sounding consonance set the romantic mood at the beginning of this song. A piano and saxophone then alternated the melody of the song as though they were dancing like two lovers flying to the moon. As the passion of the song heated up, the texture changed within the song as the saxophone took the melody and the piano and other instruments within the ensemble were in accompaniment.
"The grasses sway their tall spears; the white butterflies flutter around and float on the warm wind of the late summer." (pg 9) As the quote seems to imply, it is showing the current mood and state of Paul which, in context is a peaceful and tranquil one. It also shows his innocence to the horrors of war. The butterflies also serve as a message of his softness towards his situation and the delicacy of the balance in life. There is another passage in the book when Paul describes the butterflies as being perched upon a skull and fly about the battlefield as if they do not have a care in the world.
I could visualize that the person he is talking about is the most beautiful individual ever. I could see this by the way he compared her to “…night of cloudless climes and starry skies.” I could also sense feel as I read the poem. He described her cheek and brow, “so soft, so calm, yet eloquent,…” Figurative Language: What poetic devices were used in this poem? What did these poetic devices do for the poem? Did these devices help create imagery or communicate the author's feelings?
From this the audience can then link what is happening with the rest of the song revealing that the composer, after making love is taken to his/her’s ‘special place’ – a place of dreams. The song, Fly Me to the Moon by TGP, through the use of metaphors, imagery and music is a good example of opinion and perspective. From this song we are able to draw out the composers feeling and view of ‘making
Li Po invites the moon to drink with him as if the moon were his intimate friend. As he writes, I raise my cup and ask him to join me bringing my shadow making us three Li Po celebrates his loneliness by singing and dancing with moon and shadow rather than crying or sobbing. In Li Po’s view, moon is his friend who will meet again someday, and shadow is also his friend who is made up by the heart and segmented from himself. Similarly, in the beginning of “Words by Two Man,” “Two man walk along the beach” also indicates the heroes and setting. “Beach,” “winter,” “sea,” “jetty” and “sand” these images in “Words by Two Men” builds a graceful seaside scenery and makes readers feel immersive.
The blankets of delicate darkness that veiled the earth were embellished with glimmering colonies of nightlights, casting an ethereal radiance upon the rest of the world. The stars seemed to sparkle with such a beauty that had never been properly observed before. It seemed a waste to have such magnificent natural spectacles so high up… so out of sight to the little people down on earth. I seemed to be lost in a reverie for quite some time before I decided to get back to my intergalactic explorations. It could only get better from
In the literary work I have studied, "A Long Way Gone: the author uses many symbols to support his main theme on oppression like the moon, the cassettes', and dreams. The author uses three ways to show his account of the events, he uses present, past and his dreams which he switches over from time to time to support his story. The moon is included in every part of the book. The author first remembers how his grandmother told him “We must strive to be like the moon.” (Beah 16) and this gives him safety. In the book when Ishmael is outside during the night he feels safe as he watches the moon.
At the moon, Titus sees this pretty girl (Violet) at the other side of the club: "And then I saw someone watching...she was the most beautiful girl, like, ever" (Anderson 11). In that moment cupid was messing around and hit Titus. Titus immediately ask himself what was that make her look so pretty, and like many others he found himself in a complicated situation in how talk to her. Violet was at the moon by herself, it was her first time there. She decides to join Titus group to see the moon and what the moon can offer to these first timers’ visitors.
However, as I continue to read, it is apparent that she is referring to herself as all these different things such as the ocean which calls down the moon so she can rest in its light and dream. She also referred to herself as the sand that holds the ocean in her arms gently rocking the planet. Nikki Giovanni transfers her thoughts and feelings into her poety like no other poet can do. What she does is remarkable; her use of emotion is one reason why she is one of the most profound poets in American literature. Truth is very evident is some of Nikki Giovanni's poems.
The descriptive language used in the second stanza assumes a certain brilliance when the poem reflects a positive tone when he says “the wide wide heavens!” He uses a sense of heightened colour when describing the nature surrounding him, e.g. “purple heath flowers!” Coleridge realises toward the end of the imaginative journey that nature is all around us for those who have the desire, passion and determination to search for it. Conversational tone is also conveyed in ‘Frost at Midnight’. Frost at Midnight is in an secluded cottage during the stillness of night. “The frost performs its secret ministry” at the start of the first stanza implies personification used to establish the stunning silence of nature and the frost falling outside.