Personification in Music

Piano Man lyrics


It's nine o'clock on a Saturday
the regular crowd shuffles in
There's an old man sitting next to me
Makin' love to his tonic and gin
He says, Son can you play me a memory
I'm not really sure how it goes
But it's sad and it's sweet and I knew it complete
When I wore a younger man's clothes

[Chorus]
La la la de de da
la la de de da da dum
Sing us a song, you're the piano man
sing us a song tonight
Well, we're all in the mood for a melody
And you've got us feelin' alright

Now John at the bar is a friend of mine
He gets me my drinks for free
And he's quick with a joke or to light up your smoke
But there's someplace that he'd rather be
He says Bill, I believe this is killing me
As the smile ran away from his face
Well I'm sure that I could be a movie star
If I could get out of this place

La la la de de da
la la de de da da dum
Now Paul is a real estate novelist
Who never had time for a wife
And he's talking with Davy who's still in the navy
And probably will be for life

And the waitress is practicing politics
As the businessmen slowly get stoned
Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness
But it's better than drinking alone

Sing us a song, you're the piano man
Sing us a song tonight.
Well, we're all in the mood for a melody
And you've got us feelin' alright.

It's a pretty good crowd for a Saturday,
And the manager gives me a smile
'Cause he knows that it's me they've been coming to see
To forget about life for awhile.
And the piano sounds like a carnival
And the microphone smells like a beer
And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar
And say "Man, what are you doin' here?"

La la la de de da
la la de de da da dum
Sing us a song, you're the piano man
Sing us a song tonight.
Well, we're all in the mood for a melody
And you've got us feelin' alright.

Personification: Lodged by Robert Frost

Can the rain really talk to the wind? Can the wind really listen to the rain? Can flowers really kneel?

Well my theory is that all things in nature have some way of communicating with one another, so i believe they did talk, listen and kneel.

What are some of the effects that the tool of personification brings to this poem?

In the poem the personification gives the wind, rain and flowers the characteristics of a human being.

If the rain and wind and flowers were real people, how would one describe the event that is occurring?

If this was an actual event they would probably be in an argument of an work place.

If the flowers were real people, how do they feel after the wind and rain "smote" the garden bed?

I believe if the flowers were real people, they would think they were getting robbed or ransacked.

Speculate on why the spectator of the poem empathizes with the flower?

I think the speaker is saying that hes the flower and how he views the world as a flower.

Simile Poem: My Friend

She is as crazy as a rooster;
Still I love her like a sister.
Her hair is black and dark
Like the color of the midnight sky.
Her skin is as pale as flour
Placing her among the Twilight vampires.

Similes

Football is like a battlefield.
MMA is like Karate on drugs.
Croquet is like war.

Halloween is like a monster frenzy.
Christmas is like epiphany.
Valentines Day is like the tragedey of Romeo and Juliet.

My father is like a human weapon.
My mother is like sunshine
I am like an assassin in the night.

Metaphor Poem

Reading is my heart.
Filling me with knowledge.
Reading is my prayer.
Filling me with hope.
Reading is my soul.

It teaches me how to cope.



Poetry Writing Exercise: Metaphor

1. My life is an empty galaxy.
2. My mother is the earth.
3. My father is the sun.

1. My anger is the pit of Hell.
2. My sadness is a winding river.
3. My happiness is the endless ocean.

1. My father is the flame.
2. My mother is the flower bed.
3. I am a lion on a hunt for a gazele.

Tall Poem

I’m bigger than the entire earth
More powerful than the sea
Though a million, billion have tried
Not one could ever stop me.
I control each person with my hand
and hold up fleets of ships.
I can make them bend to my will
with one word from my lips.
I’m the greatest power in the world
in this entire nation.
No one should ever try to stop
a child’s imagination.