As Percy Bysshe Shelley said, “Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.” Poets take human emotions and experience them to words that we can relate to. Through their poems they express the feelings that we so badly want to say, but cannot find the right words to. This is true for music as well. Music and poetry focus on the evocation of human emotion. Artists and poets connect the self to the world we live in. They are capable of this through their ability to master language, known as redirect. Surprisingly, many classical poems and contemporary songs, share common themes and tones. The fact that poets from hundred of years ago are speaking about the same concepts in current songs, truly demonstrates the persistent, uncontrollable feelings we posses as human beings. The poems “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” by William Shakespeare, and “A Ditty” by Sir Phillip Sidney, and the song “Crazy in love” by Eminem, all express similar tones and themes of the nature of the strength and nature of unconditional love.
In the poem by William Shakespeare, “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” the speaker uses a declarative tone in order to present the theme of the nature of love. The speaker’s serious, and factual tone is in order to define what true love actually is. The speaker truly underlines the theme when he or she says, “love is not love which alters when it alterations finds,” (Shakespeare 472). Meaning that the love you have for someone does not change just because something else changed. The speaker is saying that if you love is true, it will be eternal. That is because “it is an ever fixed mark, that looks on tempests and is never shaken, (Shakespeare 472). Meaning no matter what storm, or hardship that comes your way, if it is truly love, then it will still remain, because love is endless. The last two lines of the poem the speaker’s tone is facetious when he or she says, “If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved,” (Shakespeare 472). This last statement truly saying that love does exist, because if it did not, that is like saying he never wrote and the poem “A Ditty” written over a hundred years later, shows William Shakespeare was never proven wrong and this phenomena known as love truly transcends time.
The poem, “A Ditty” by Sir Phillip Sydney conveys the theme of mutual, bona fide love. The speaker uses a confident tone in order to describe the nature of their joint love. The speaker’s sureness of the genuine nature of their love is presented in the very first line, “my true love hath my heart and I have his,” (Sydney 1). Simply supporting the mutual quality of their love. When explaining the trade the speaker and his or her lover made, the speaker says, “There was never a better bargain driven,” (Sydney 4). This is really saying that there is nothing in the world that could compare to the certainty in having each other’s hearts. This consistent theme of this essence behind the notion of love is not only seen in poetry, but also in music, especially rap.
Marshall Mather’s, otherwise known as Eminem is one of the most prolific, and poetic lyrists of his generation. In his song “Crazy in Love” Eminem uses a fanatical, and hypocritical tone in order to present the theme of love’s ability to seem seismic, but in reality is interminable. In the first verse of the song Eminem says, “Can't you see what you do to me baby? You make me crazy; you make me act like a maniac. I'm like a lunatic, you make me sick; you truly are the only one who can do this to me.” The significance of the last line in that verse is paramount. The person who this song is about is the only one who can make him act or feel that way because she is the only one he truly loves. And the overwhelming emotions that correspond to love, like jealousy, are to a whole other extreme. That is why the cliché “love makes us do crazy things” is so sound. In the second verse of the song Eminem uses metaphors such as “you’re the ink to my paper” in order to show that she is his “reason for being, the meaning of my existence.” Eminem also shows how love has the ability to build you up by saying “the only reason I am able to stay so stable is you’re the legs to my table,” but also it’s ability to break you down, “if you were to break I’d fall on my face.” The message in Marshall Mather’s song, “Crazy in Love” is yet another form of evidence supports Shakespeare’s claim about being proved wrong on the everlasting nature of love.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a German Playwright, poet, and novelist once said, “A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.” Poetry and music makes sense to the emotions we as human beings all share but can not put into words. There is a reason why when you’re feeling “high on life” you blast “I’m walking on Sunshine” as your driving down the highway. And when everything is wrong you sulk to the song “Look What You’ve Done” by Jet. Music is poetry put to rhythm. Yet most people think they do not like poetry because they read it like a book. And that is their mistake. Poetry is supposed to be heard, like music. This notion of poetry and music is evident, especially in the poems “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” by William Shakespeare, and “A Ditty” by Sir Phillip Sidney, and the song “Crazy in love” by Marshall Mathers. All of these pieces share similar themes of the nature of true, undying love.
In the poem by William Shakespeare, “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” the speaker uses a declarative tone in order to present the theme of the nature of love. The speaker’s serious, and factual tone is in order to define what true love actually is. The speaker truly underlines the theme when he or she says, “love is not love which alters when it alterations finds,” (Shakespeare 472). Meaning that the love you have for someone does not change just because something else changed. The speaker is saying that if you love is true, it will be eternal. That is because “it is an ever fixed mark, that looks on tempests and is never shaken, (Shakespeare 472). Meaning no matter what storm, or hardship that comes your way, if it is truly love, then it will still remain, because love is endless. The last two lines of the poem the speaker’s tone is facetious when he or she says, “If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved,” (Shakespeare 472). This last statement truly saying that love does exist, because if it did not, that is like saying he never wrote and the poem “A Ditty” written over a hundred years later, shows William Shakespeare was never proven wrong and this phenomena known as love truly transcends time.
The poem, “A Ditty” by Sir Phillip Sydney conveys the theme of mutual, bona fide love. The speaker uses a confident tone in order to describe the nature of their joint love. The speaker’s sureness of the genuine nature of their love is presented in the very first line, “my true love hath my heart and I have his,” (Sydney 1). Simply supporting the mutual quality of their love. When explaining the trade the speaker and his or her lover made, the speaker says, “There was never a better bargain driven,” (Sydney 4). This is really saying that there is nothing in the world that could compare to the certainty in having each other’s hearts. This consistent theme of this essence behind the notion of love is not only seen in poetry, but also in music, especially rap.
Marshall Mather’s, otherwise known as Eminem is one of the most prolific, and poetic lyrists of his generation. In his song “Crazy in Love” Eminem uses a fanatical, and hypocritical tone in order to present the theme of love’s ability to seem seismic, but in reality is interminable. In the first verse of the song Eminem says, “Can't you see what you do to me baby? You make me crazy; you make me act like a maniac. I'm like a lunatic, you make me sick; you truly are the only one who can do this to me.” The significance of the last line in that verse is paramount. The person who this song is about is the only one who can make him act or feel that way because she is the only one he truly loves. And the overwhelming emotions that correspond to love, like jealousy, are to a whole other extreme. That is why the cliché “love makes us do crazy things” is so sound. In the second verse of the song Eminem uses metaphors such as “you’re the ink to my paper” in order to show that she is his “reason for being, the meaning of my existence.” Eminem also shows how love has the ability to build you up by saying “the only reason I am able to stay so stable is you’re the legs to my table,” but also it’s ability to break you down, “if you were to break I’d fall on my face.” The message in Marshall Mather’s song, “Crazy in Love” is yet another form of evidence supports Shakespeare’s claim about being proved wrong on the everlasting nature of love.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, a German Playwright, poet, and novelist once said, “A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.” Poetry and music makes sense to the emotions we as human beings all share but can not put into words. There is a reason why when you’re feeling “high on life” you blast “I’m walking on Sunshine” as your driving down the highway. And when everything is wrong you sulk to the song “Look What You’ve Done” by Jet. Music is poetry put to rhythm. Yet most people think they do not like poetry because they read it like a book. And that is their mistake. Poetry is supposed to be heard, like music. This notion of poetry and music is evident, especially in the poems “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” by William Shakespeare, and “A Ditty” by Sir Phillip Sidney, and the song “Crazy in love” by Marshall Mathers. All of these pieces share similar themes of the nature of true, undying love.
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