In this section of the blog, I analyze poetry, songs, ads, and PSAs – and perhaps other things as well. If you’re interested in discussions on meter, rhyme scheme, the oddities of public service ads, or music videos, this part of my blog is for you.
(If some of you come here for help on a school assignment, I hope you get the not-too-suspicious B+ that you deserve.)
A-ha
+ Take On Me
Anheuser-Busch: Whassup Ad (1999)
Bacon, Francis
+ Help Lord
Barber, Samuel
+ Adagio for Strings
Blake, William
+ A Divine Image
+ A Poison Tree
Boberg, Carl
+ How Great Thou Art
Brooks, Garth
+ The River
Brooks, Gwendolyn
+ We Real Cool
Charles, Ray
+ Seven Spanish Angels (w/ Willie Nelson)
Chesterton, G.K.
+ Elegy In a Country Churchyard
+ The Donkey
Crane, Stephen
+ Behold, the grave of a wicked man
Crossman, Samuel
+ My Song Is Love Unknown
Cummings, E.E.
+ l(a
Denver, John
+ Take Me Home, Country Roads
Dickinson, Emily
+ “Hope” is the thing with feathers
+ I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
+ I had no time to Hate —
Donne, John
+ No Man is an Island
+ Holy Sonnet 10: Death, be not proud
Dunbar, Paul Laurence
+ We Wear the Mask
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
+ Concord Hymn
Frost, Robert
+ Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
+ The Road Not Taken
+ Dust of Snow
+ Nothing Gold Can Stay
+ Fire and Ice
Hayden, Robert
+ Those Winter Sundays
Hemingway, Ernest
+ Ultimately
Henley, William Ernest
+ Invictus
Hood, Thomas
+ Silence
Hughes, Langston
+ I, Too
+ Quiet Girl
+ Dreams
+ Still Here
+ So Tired Blues
Keats, John
+ Bright Star
Kipling, Rudyard
+ IF—
Lewis, C.S.
+ The Country of the Blind
Lindeman, Edith (with Carl Stutz)
+ Red Headed Stranger
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
+ The Arrow and the Song
+ The Rainy Day
Matsuo Bashō
+ The Old Pond
Milton, John
+ When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
Nash, Ogden
+ The Duck
+ The Firefly
+ A Word to Husbands
Natsume Sōseki
+ Over the Wintry
Parr, John
+ St. Elmo’s Fire (Man in Motion)
Poe, Edgar Allen
+ TO —
Queen
+ Another One Bites the Dust
Rosetti, Christina
+ In the Bleak Midwinter
+ Up-Hill
+ Remember
Sandburg, Carl
+ Fog
Shakespeare, William
+ Sonnet 18
+ Sonnet 130
Shakur, Tupac
+ The Rose that Grew from Concrete
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
+ Ozymandias
Silverstein, Shel
+ Put Something In
+ Snowball
Spafford, Horatio AND Philip Bliss
+ It Is Well With My Soul
Stevens, Wallace
+ The Plot Against the Giant
Stevenson, Robert Louis
+ The Land of Nod
+ Autumn Fires
Strait, George
+ Ace in the Hole
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
+ The Charge of the Light Brigade
+ The Eagle
the Alan Parsons Project
+ Eye in the Sky
Thomas, Dylan
+ Do not go gentle into that good night
Tolkien, J.R.R.
+ Song of Aragorn
+ The Road Goes Ever On
Tozzi, Umberto
+ Gloria
Twain, Mark
+ Warm Summer Sun
U2
+ Where the Streets Have No Name
Whitman, Walt
+ A Noiseless Patient Spider
Whittier, John Greenleaf
+ Ichabod!
Wordsworth, William
+ I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud