A Super Computer of Death

In his short story "EPICAC," Kurt Vonnegut uses satire to criticize humanity's growing dependence on technology. Written in 1950, soon after the development of the first super computers used for military tactics in WWII, Vonnegut was profoundly affected both by the war and by the boom of technology that followed.

The plot of the story is simple. A man who works as a mathematician describes himself as the friend of the super computer in the office. He works tirelessly with the computer day in and day out to fix and perfect all of the computer's intricate details. During this time as a mathematician at the office, he falls in love with one of the other employees named Pam. One night, when finishing his work at the office, he accidentally unlocks a secret function of the computer, where the computer can express emotions. The computer begins writing love letters for Pam because the man is unable to show Pam how he really feels. At the end of the story, the computer writes a marriage proposal for the man to give to Pam and explodes during the night. Supposedly, the computer fell in love with Pam in writing these letters. The boss at the office is devastated because the super computer contained all of the business' information and data, and it destroyed all of the data and office space itself.

In this bizarre story, Vonnegut satirizes human dependence on technology. Specifically, by giving the computer a secret function to feel emotion, Vonnegut expresses immense concern for humans loosing their ability to think for themselves. The way I see it, this introduces a revolutionary thought that is remarkably relevant to modern day, despite being written almost 70 years ago! Vonnegut expresses that humans are susceptible to manipulation and loss of a freedom to think. Further, he argues that technology should be used with caution in order to maintain control of life and happiness.

Dug even deeper in the story is Vonnegut's suggestion that humans are inherently vulnerable to being controlled by outside influences of "greater intelligence". Whether this is taken to mean technology, aliens, or other people, the assertion remains the same: people should be wary of who and what they trust.

Hence, when asked if Kurt Vonnegut employed satire effectively in "EPICAC," my answer is an overwhelming yes. Vonnegut made me think about my technology use, and I am positive the same is true for anyone else who understood his true motivation in writing.

Tearing Down China

https://www.theonion.com/chinese-man-worried-you-can-t-have-respectful-debate-ab-1832652900


        I recently read this article from the onion that is a great satire. This article from the ever great Onion is a true treasure. This article reaches into people and pulls out their most sarcastic selves. The article is a great example of sarcasm for many reasons. Sarcasm is a sharp or cutting expression/remark, it means to tear someone’s flesh. One of the ways is, this young man is telling us that the people who live in China are extremely lucky to live there and they need to realize that before they mess up the best thing that ever happened to them, he's saying this to tear them apart and to be mean to them. Truly showing us the Greeks are great namers. The man obviously doesn't agree with what his fellow countrymen are saying. Another way it's sarcastic is the fact that he calls the communist party brilliant when America has tried for years to show people that it's quite the opposite. However, this article is more than just a sarcastic one, it draws attention to the problem that China is having with their government and the lack of freedom they experience. So even though this article is funny and sarcastic it also brings attention to a more serious issue that's happening in China. The article wants people to pay attention to the world around them but people don't always like to hear how their world or country is acting, so this article helps bring attention to the serious issue but in a more relaxed way so the reader can enjoy themselves but still learn about places around them.

How SNL Mocks Gendered Ads

In the Saturday Night Live skit and mock-advertisement entitled "President Barbie," three young girls are shown playing with a variety of toys. The narration of the ad starts with generic background about the girls being able to do whatever they want as long as they use their imagination. Their original interests are not specifically gendered in the beginning: one girl plays with Legos, another draws a map to a castle, and the last girl dreams of going to space.

Then the narrator announces the product they are advertising, a Barbie doll that resembles Hillary Clinton and is named President Barbie. The girls are given the doll, promptly pass it off as boring, and continue playing with their preferred toys, much to the narrator's displeasure. As the narrator attempts to pass the doll off as empowering because of its image as the first female president, one of the girls retorts, "Yeah, but girls don't have to play with dolls, we can play with whatever we want."

The first and most obvious technique found in this skit (and the majority of other SNL works) is parody. In this case, it is a parody of children's toy commercials that encourage gender stereotypes like girls playing with dolls and princesses and boys playing with trucks and Legos. The skit is satire because it imitates the children's cartoon with the goal of making it clear how ridiculous the commercials are. Another aspect of advertising that the skit is making fun of is how toy brands will make toys that are still gendered but say they are about female empowerment. Like in this ad, the product is meant to empower girls by making them picture a woman or themselves as president, but in the parody, it comes off as still forcing girls to play with dolls. By making fun of these ads, SNL makes it clear they believe that kids shouldn't be forced to play with gendered toys because of some upbeat commercial that makes it seem like that's the only way they can have fun.

The second technique is the situational irony of the skit due to the interaction between the narrator and the girls in it. In a traditional ad, the expectation that is set up is that the narrator would talk about the toy, and the children or people in the ad would get excited about the toy and then play with it and have fun for the cameras. But in order to criticize how society structures these gendered ads, the girls in the ad flip the script by refusing to play with President Barbie and insisting they are more empowered to play with whatever they choose than to have gender so blatantly forced upon them.

Amazon what?!

A great satire that I came across when watching SNL was a skit called "Amazon Echo." This skit gives is a parody of how Amazon Echo should function, but for old people. In today’s society, when we think of old people in relation to technologies, we think of them as someone who is not capable of using electronics such as phones, modern television, and gadgets. This skit makes fun of the old people as well as Amazon Echo in a way that allows elders to be able to use the technology. This skit uses few different types of satires, including parodies and hyperbole.

A parody is a type of satire that imitates a style for comedy or to be ridiculed. In this case, the skit was ridiculing elders because they have hard time understanding technologies. This idea is humorous towards the younger audience and may even go as to promote the fact that we should have technologies that will be easier for elders to use, or even have essential lessons towards the elders on how to use technologies.

Another type of satire that this skit uses is hyperbole. Hyperbole is also a type of satire that uses exaggeration and overstatement in order to make its meaning clearer. One example, of hyperbole is in this skit was when Kate McKinnon asked Amazon Echo to increase the temperature of the house, in which Alexa responds as “It’s literally 100 degrees in here”. This exaggeration shows that elders are fragile when it comes to weather, and even at a hot day, they may find the weather still a bit chilly.

Music Poetry!

Chum

Earl Sweatshirt truly is the Shakespeare of our generation and we see this through his song “Chum” in the Doris album. The song is pretty deep but he seems to be talking about his family life and how it has turned him into the person he is today.

Something sinister to it, pendulum swinging slow
A degenerate moving through the city with criminals

He is using quite ingenious wordplay in the above lines. In physics, a pendulums motion is said to be “degenerate” as friction increasingly slows it down. However, the word “degenerate” can also mean an immoral or corrupt person. Earl is describing the pendulums motion as similar to himself, as well as saying he was a moral person who is becoming more corrupted with time

When he says

Get up off the pavement, brush the dirt up off my psyche
Psyche, psyche

This indicates that his troubles are more complex now, involving his psyche rather than just lewd under-age drinking. The line “pendulum swinging slower, degenerate moving” in connection with the slowed down vocals in the words psyche, might mean that Earl’s degeneracy is slowing down with his age as he brushes the dirt off of his dirty psyche. He’s still inclined as a young adult to do stupid things, but he’s starting to slow down.

Poetry in form of Music

I chose the song Same Love by Macklemore &Ryan Lewis featuring Mary Lambert. The central idea of this song-poem is gay and lesbian rights and the issue surrounding that topic. The speaker is a person speaking out against the hate and is presumably gay or lesbian. They talk about how it's ok to be who you are, even if that is gay, lesbian, bi, etc. They influence pride into the people who are in the same situations. This song was written in 2012 and at that time the LGBTQ+ community was not as welcomed and popular as it is today. This was how the speaker spoke out against the hate and defended his opinion on the topic. The song is written in a poetic way but there is no specific rhyming scheme to it but when listening to the song you can hear a rhythmic tone to it. The lyrics flow together as well as the verses and choruses. This song doesn't feature any metaphors, similes, personification, etc., but this poem still brings forth images and a story in the reader and listeners head. The speaker puts multiple stories in the song to bring an image to the audiences mind. They use imagery to get their message across.

Cartoons and Cereal

Throughout Hip-Hop history, Poetry has always been intertwined with experiences and lyrical metaphors to help express and convey an emotion, thus expanding and bring together communities between people through, childhood experiences, love, and mental health. Kendrick Lamar is considerably a more recent hip-hop icon that conveys his poetry with his experiences of drugs, love, hate, loneliness and his childhood home. In his song "Cartoons and Cereal" released in 2012, he emphasizes the parallels of addiction and youth. He focused on the power of idolizing cartoons and being youthful with the power of addiction, when growing up you are exposed to new things. These "adult things" that he was exposed to while growing up; he wasn't shielded by them by parental figures.

[Intro]

I wanna hit line drives…
Wanna lose weight and keep eating...
For you...
Hey, whats up doc

As the song continues, we learn Kendrick grew up around his best friends, his A1 that he went way back with- especially to the reference to sandboxes having a double meaning because its literal and figurative because sandboxes are a symbol of youth and innocent “the Good ‘ol days”, back when life was good and all about fun. And, he continues to say because of their background, being youth his 'brother' was holding a handgun due to gang affiliations and his 'sister' giving birth, due to the systematic oppression of young Black women because used and having their innocence taken away due to lack of information on abstinence and education, it shows the poverty of their neighborhood and their "Worlds"

[Bridge]

Now I was raised in a sandbox, next to you and her
You was holding the handgun, she was giving birth
To a baby boy to be just like you, I-I wonder what's that worth

The ideology of Black boys not having no worth in our society, as just being gang affiliated and targets for police brutality- to be a black Boy to Kendrick means their life doesn’t hold much value because they barely make it to adulthood anyway. So,what’s the real value to Black lives?

I-I wonder if you ever knew that you was a role model to me first
The next day I-I woke up in the morning, seen you on the news
Looked in the mirror, then realized that I-I-I had something to prove

This is shown that, Black boys,look up to Black men peep how they were taught to continuous feed into the cycle of seeing themselves on TV in a negative light, Kendrick says to he will be different by proving that he is different, all of this while growing up while exposed to these factors that will shape his perspectives on his value of his life and others around him

You told me "Don't be like me, just finish watching cartoons"
Which is funny now cause all I see is Wile E. Coyote's in the room

The coyotes symbolize the future obstacles of gangs, and vivid imagination as being a child seeing ‘villains’ try to conquer and win against the innocent and heroes, Kendrick tries to be the hero and still remain good and focused on trying to grow up while being prematurely exposed explicitly by teen pregnancy and gang violence and being targeted because he is a Black male in Compton. I'd argue his song is poetry because it lays a foundation of a experiences that Kendrick feels and convey to make people feel some way about his story through things all humans go through; coming of age.

What Do They Call Me?

"Four Women" is written and recorded by the artist Nina Simone from her album Wild Is the Wind. The song was recorded in 1965 and released in 1966. This song is about the depictions of four women with different skin tones and stereotypes. The women depicted in this song are based off of real women. The song also dates back to the slave era where these stereotypes originated. The speakers in this song are four different African American females. The audience are African American women who relate to the descriptions and stereotypes in this song. T

he main use of imagery really brings out the poetic side of the song by creating a stereotypical picture of each women. The use of imagery and first person throughout the whole song also communicates experience for those who actually live with these descriptions and stereotypes. The lyrics of the song would be divided into four stanzas, one for each woman depicted. The first line in each stanza starts out with a woman stating, "My skin is..." to kick off the description of that woman. The women would go on to describe themselves including, "My hair is long", "My manner is tough", and "My hips invite you" Each stanza is directed to a specific type of woman, creates a specific image for them, and conveys a specific experience that they can possibly relate to which will pull in the African American female audience. They will feel like the song is written about them because, poetically, it is written about them. The song written and sang in first person adds on to the personal feel of the it.

Even if some African American females have not experienced these stereotypes, they can feel the experience of those who have because the first person supports the song being for all African American women. The stanzas end with the question, "What do they call me", "they", meaning those who create and believe in the stereotypes, followed by the names, "Aunt Sarah", "Saffronia", "Sweet Thing", and "Peaches". The names in the song add an emotional dimension to the song by providing an unwanted symbol from those who branded them with it to the women who "fit the description". There is a personal connection with those names and the description behind them to the women who represent them making the audience feel emotionally attached to the song. A song with the capability to be directed to people with the use imagery and first person, communicating experiences, and creating an emotional dimension should be considered a fantastic poem.

Reborn

The song I choose is "Reborn" on Kanye's new album "Kids See Ghosts" featuring Kid Cudi. This song explains how when adversity hits, you should not get discouraged and keep moving forward. The first time I heard this song, I was going through a tough time I can honestly say that this song it helped me.

Chorus
I'm so, I'm so reborn, I'm moving' forward
Keep moving' forward, keep moving' forward
Ain't no stress on me Lord, I'm moving' forward
Keep moving' forward, keep moving' forward
Keep moving' forward, keep moving' forward
Ain't no stress on me Lord, I'm moving' forward
Keep moving' forward, keep moving' forward

I'm so, I'm so reborn, I'm moving' forward

The speaker in the chorus, (Kid Cudi) is telling the audience about how he feels as if he is a new person and all stress is gone. I believe that this song can touch many people because everyone has faced a tough obstacle and this may help them. Also, even though the song was made by "rappers", there is a spiritual aspect the song. This song takes away the feeling of being "spiritually impoverished." It said poetry is gives a "unique value to realized life" and feel as if the song portrays that.

Come Back to Earth

One of best songs on the late Mac Miller's 2018 album Swimming is called "Come Back to Earth." It is the first track on the album. In the song Miller discusses how he wishes he could stop being to introverted

My regrets look just like texts I shouldn't send
And I've got neighbors, their more like strangers
We should be friends
I just need a way out of my head
I'll do anything for a way out
Of my head

The neighbors that Miller is talking about are more than just his next door neighbors but they are everyone he encounters. He's depression does not allow him to function properly in society. He does not know how to properly feel emotions and connect with people.

I just need a way out of my head
I'll do anything for a way out
Of my head

The way only way Miller feels that he can get out of his head is through abusing drugs. Unfortunately, His untimely death due to drug overdose has illuminated his drug abuse. Some have said that this song and his entire Swimming album was a cry for help.

The verse of the song utilizes the motif of water in lines like:

And I was drowning but now I'm swimming
Through stressful waters to relief

and

I wish it was nice out, but it look like rain

The water motif shows that Miller is drowning in his depression but he is slowing navigating into happy waters. Drowning is all consuming. It's scary and there is no way to get out of it without the help of other people and/or learning how to swim.

In the song, he doesn't mention the words "Come Back to Earth" or anything space related. This left me wondering why he titles the song "Come Back to Earth." I thought about it and maybe the song is a reference to his 2013 song, Earth. He talks a happier time when she was in love. In Earth, he talks about his entire worldview being different because he is in love. "Come Back to Earth" is about Mac Miller wanting to have similar emotions and experiences to the ones he did in 2013.

She Reminds Me of a West Side Story

Song: "Maria Maria"
Artist: Carlos Santana
Album: Supernatural

My all time favorite song is one called "Maria Maria" off of Carlos Santana's album Supernatural. It tells the story of a girl named Maria, and her attempt to escape the life she's living. To me, this song embodies poetry in the best sense of the word.

I said a la favella los colores,
the streets are getting hotter.
There is no water to put out the fire.
Ni gota de esperanza.

When the parts in Spanish are translated, the stanza states that "If rain were a metaphor for hope, not a drop of it could be found." This line adds to the situation that Maria is in, and how badly she wants to try and escape it. The singer also claims that Maria reminds them of a "West Side story." The beauty in this metaphor is that, while a person obviously can't be a story, they are able to be compared to something all listeners can picture.

I have been reading and writing poetry almost every day after school for the past few weeks, and something I have realized is that poetry can be many things. It's main purpose is to find a way to rearrange words, so that one person's experience becomes a metaphor for another person's life. A song like "Maria Maria" isn't one that everyone may relate to personally, we may not all know a Maria, but we are still able to picture her along with her pain, and her story. Not to mention, Carlos Santana is pretty legendary himself.

Consequences

Camila Cabello's song "Consequences" from the album Camila is truly a piece of poetry. The album Camila was released soon after her departure of Fifth Harmony. The entire album Camila seemed to encapsulate her liberation from her old band and ability to fully indulge in her own style of music and culture. The song "Consequences" is one of her more personal pieces that could've never been released if she were to stay in Fifth Harmony.

Every word is beautifully sang with a sorrowful and painful tone, conveying a story, possibly one of her own experiences, of a toxic relationship. The lyrics strongly suggest she's talking about herself by her usage of possessive pronouns and first person pronouns such as mine, I'm, I, and me. Through her choice of first person pronouns, it not only makes the entire song more personal to the listener and relatable, but also reminds the audience of her own humanity. Often times fans forget celebrities are humans too and face their own heart breaks and toxic relationships like any other human. Through her figure of speech and tone combined, we not only hear her pain and despair, but become aware of who she's directing it to.

For parts of the song, she is directing the emotion and focus towards her ex, however during the section,

    "Hesitation, awkward conversation
      Running on low expectation
      Every siren that I was ignoring
      I'm paying for it"

she herself is the focus. This isn't the only time she is the focus, however it is to me the most powerful in the sense it's extremely relatable to the audience. "Consequence" is truly a piece of poetry, because throughout the entire song, you're there with her during the happy moments of the relationship, the toxic moments, and the reflection after.

How You Gonna Win If You Ain't Right Within?

Lauryn Hill's song "Doo-Wop (That Thing)", from her solo debut album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, should be considered poetry. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill was a triumph in the development of the hip-hop genre, and still remains to be one today.

The primary theme within this song is how men and women tend to exploit each other materialistically, and how the obsession of materialism can corrupt a person. The song begins with a message towards women who are caught up in material values:

          Talking out your neck, sayin' you're a Christian
          A Muslim, sleeping with the jinn
          Now that was the sin that did Jezebel in
          Who you gon' tell when the repercussions spin?

Lauryn Hill's incorporation of the concept of religious values into this song was a smart choice. While the particular woman in this verse is saying that she has religious and righteous values, she ends up falling short as true religious values directly contrast her materialistic ones. Additionally, the wordplay utilized with jinn is very effective in enhancing the overall meaning of the song due to the meaning of jinn having ambiguity. In Islam, a jinn is an intelligent spirit with a lower status than an angel, so due to the context of Islam in the verse, "sleeping with the jinn" would go against religious values. Simultaneously, sleeping with the gin, or rather, drinking gin, also violates Islamic values since drinking alcohol as a Muslim is not permissible, or halal. The pun Lauryn Hill uses here is simple yet incredibly effective, and gives the verse much more of an impact that it would have had otherwise.

In the second part of the song, Lauryn Hill shifts her lyrical focus towards the values of men:

          The pretty face men claiming that they did a bid men
          Need to take care of they three or four kids
          And they face a court case when the child support late
          Money taking and heart breaking, now you wonder why women hate men

The use of internal rhyme throughout the lyrics worked here. These lyrics show how material obsession, particularly money, make men prioritize gaining that over all else, including family. When looking at these examples, such as the child support verse, the internal rhyme between "court case" and "support late" contribute to the overall flow of the song. Interestingly, Lauryn Hill's shift to internal rhyme in her lyrics primarily comes when she changes the focus of her song from women to men. Her intent here may have been to emphasize the qualities that men possess when caught up with material possessions.

Ultimately, this song resonates deeply with the flaws of human nature, and emphasizes the mistakes that we as a society often make.

Music Poetry- "Higher" by The Score

I believe “Higher” by The Score (Edan and Eddie), part of their Atlas album, is true poetry. It was written after moving to LA to pursue their music career, leaving their friends, family, and most of their belongings behind. As they faced challenges in this new world, The Score found their songs could provide the same sense of reassurance and confidence for others that they needed themselves.

Thus, this song (and many of their others) is intended to be empowering. It details the character's ability to overcome the struggles he faces, which inspires listeners to do the same. Edan explains, “... writing universally anthemic, relatable choruses and melodies that just – we want people to feel uplifted…” (atwoodmagazine).

They achieve this through the use of multidimensional lyrics. For example, in the phrase “All my life I have been fighting,” The Score uses fighting to illustrate multiple struggles. It could indicate literally fist-fighting to reach the top, but also demonstrate emotional or psychological perseverance. Moreover, the fighting may not only be against others, it could symbolize pushing himself to improve. Another example of multidimensional language is when they sing "They try to keep me down but I just get higher.” This could mean an obstacle that he must physically overcome, such as being tackled in football, but it also could symbolize stereotypes that confine citizens to certain standards, and exceeding expectations. This is similarly conveyed in the line "Think it's time I break my chains." He could mean literal chains from people holding him back, or breaking past expectations of what people assume. These chains could be literal or societal or even emotional weights.

Altogether, while the song illustrates one man's struggle, the overarching theme should be carried on to our own lives. We should use this determination as an example, whether trying to get a "higher" test score, a "higher" promotion, or simply "higher" confidence in oneself. 

Denzel's insight to the troubles of the the music industry

In his song Clout Cobain, on the album Taboo Denzel Curry reflects on his own insecurities as an artist as well as addressing some of the fundamental problems that affect the music industry today.

I just wanna feel myself, you want me to kill myself Man, I been on my own, Lord, I'ma need some help 

I just wanna feel myself, you want me to kill myself
Man, it's been so damn long, dealing with the things I've felt

In this opening chorus Denzel comes forward with his own struggles. Addressing those that wish bad on him as "you", he explains the isolation he feels and the constant feeling that others want to see him fail, or even kill himself.

I don't even know what to feel, they don't even know what's real
Dry tears with a dollar bill, I'm out tryna make a mill', oh
Why you wanna take my soul? I'm yelling out "hell no!"
I can't even trust my friends, most of them might be foes

The first first dives into the fear and insecurities that Denzel feels as an artist. He even goes as far as to say he feels his own friends might not even be trustworthy. The use of "they" in the first line is meant to reference some fans who don't recognize the real and painful things that artists can experience.

He feels many fans turn a blind eye to artist's mental health and can't see the real problems they are facing. He even goes on to say they're attempting to take his soul and identity by stripping him down to just someone who makes music and doesn't have serious problems.

These problems are often swept under the rug and not talked about until the artist ultimately may have to step away from music or even take their own life. By calling out these issues Denzel wants to bring awareness to the severity of the difficulties artists face in the music industry.

A 15 Year Old Prodigy?

At fifteen years old, Billie Eilish has managed to have an acclaimed debut EP, a sold out tour, and over three million monthly streams on Spotify. She has accomplished all of her fame within two years and at fifteen years old proving her resilience and talent.

Her angelic voice doesn't match her appearance, yet the somber and sadistic themes of her lyrics exemplify the sadness and vulnerability she feels within life and society. She feels restricted by many aspects society and that her fame has set on her, but she continues to stay true to herself within everything.

In her song, Idon'twannabeyouanymore, Eilish speaks to the stereotypes and constructs society is stained with.

     If teardrops could be bottled
     There'd be swimming pools filled by models
     Told "a tight dress is what makes you a whore"
     If "I love you" was a promise
     Would you break it, if you're honest?
     Tell the mirror what you know she's heard before
     I don't wanna be you...
     Anymore

She speaks of the unseen pressure that everyone feels. The title of the song helps emphasize this, there are no spaces among the six words, which makes the reader do a double take when trying to encode what is being said. She also uses assonance in this stanza, which makes the phrases more cohesive and imitates the structure of villanelle/sonnets. 

There is also personification within this stanza as she compares the "teardrops in a bottle" to "swimming pools filled with models". This is powerful because it parallels the teardrops and sadness to the models - which are the ideal standards that society has placed on us. 

Netflix trip by AJR

In the song ¨Netflix Trip¨ by AJR it is an extended metaphor comparing the tv show The Office with his love.  And his life which is a timeline of his experience with growing up. 
 I turned down Jameson when I was twelve.  
This line is talking about alcohol and how he was asked to drink when he was twelve. Then the next lines are talking about another time in his life in comparison to the office.  

The one where Dwight became the head of Sales
My eighth-grade graduation wished me well

The one where Dwight became the head of Sales

This is very poetic because it was talking about his growing up going from middle school to high school.  A very big part in someones a kids life.  And Dwight coming head of sales is a very big deal because of his growth in the company.  The strong is a strong message of coming to age and big moments in life. 

Rico Has a Dark Story

Rico Story by Speaker Knockerz is a single which speaks of an anecdote, and more ignores the music aspect in order to portray the incident in the song. Although Speaker Knockerz is a relatively unknown artist, Rico Story 1, 2, and 3 are very popular songs. Rico Story one is about a man who doesn't have much money and is driven into crime, but later sees that his girlfriend and accomplice ends up rating him out and putting him in jail. He later gets out through some dirty work and while he's out, he encounters his child's mother, who is also the same woman who put him in jail... and that's where Rico Story 2 starts. Throughout the song, Speaker Kockerz rhymes the last word of the sentence with the word in the previous line.

He told her, baby, let's go rob a f*cking bank
she said, okay and then they filled the gas tank
Pulled up to the bank, he parked on the side
He got out the car, she said, I'll stay inside
Put his mask on, load his four-four
Prayed to God and then he opened the door...

By using the use of ABAB rhyme it takes a regular story of someone's life and gives a catchy tone that brings out the "song sound" of the narrative. Along with the music in the background, the rhyme introduced in the song deceives the reader into listening to it as a song rather than a regular story. The overall sound of the song is deceiving because it is a story that is catchy like a song, which works together to build a wonderful piece of music.

Night Moves

Night Moves is a album and song that was released in 1976 by Bob Seger. I feel that this song is a perfect example of how poetry and music combine to make a unique and moving song in which the listener becomes entranced. While listening to this song I feel relaxed and at the same time engrossed in the story that Bob Seger is singing about.

Out past the cornfields where the woods got heavy
Out in the back seat of my '60 Chevy
Workin' on mysteries without any clues
Workin' on our night moves

This is the second verse of the song and Bob Seger is already alluding towards a sensual and romantic time with a woman he he is in to, but he doesn't come out and say it. Bob uses the line "Workin' on mysteries without any clues" and "Workin' on our night moves" to describe how he is involved with this woman and I think he uses poet language in these lines because the words go deeper than a literal sense, The mysteries that they are trying to solve are their feelings and romantic urges for one another.

Oh the wonder
felt the lightning
And we waited on the thunder
Waited on the thunder

In the 5th verse of the song these lines are said and they contain literal aspects of a storm but also poetic and multidimensional aspects of the feelings that Bob Seger is getting from the girl he is with. When talking about lightning and thunder he is anticipating a good time and then the thunder hits and he feels intensity from the situation that him and the girl are in.