Standin ' on the corner with the lowdown blues
A great big hole in the bottom of my shoes
Honey, let me be your salty dog
Let me be your salty dog
Or I won 't be your man at all
Honey let me be your salty dog
Listen here Sal, well I know you
Rundown stockin ' and a worn out shoe
Honey, let me be your salty dog
Let me be your salty dog
Or I won 't be your man at all
Honey, let me be your salty dog
Down in the wildwood sittin ' on a log
Finger on the trigger and eye on the hog
Honey, let me be your salty dog
Let me be your salty dog
Or I won 't be your man at all
Honey, let me be your salty dog
Pulled the trigger and they said go
Shot fell over in Mexico
Honey, let me be you salty dog
Let me be your salty dog
Or I won 't be your man at all
In “Poem to My Litter,” Ritvo wrote about how doctors split his tumors and scattered them in the bones of twelve mice (3-4). Here he managed to convey very surreal and strange images through plain language. It’s the work of a very accomplished writer with an unusually vivid imagination and a surprising sense of humor. This is someone who have accepted his fate and diagnosis, and his writing addresses his terminal illness head on, without pity or melodrama.
“She’s cut it bad, this time worse than before. She can’t work and it’s turning all green…her money is nearly all gone, too, and we can’t pay the rent and the interest on the house; and we have no coal and nothing more to eat, and the man at the
Have you ever faced a life-changing experience that impacted you, your family, or your country? Melba Pattillo Beals, Jackie Robinson, and Feng Ru faced life-changing experiences and made decisions that impacted their lives, their family’s lives, and their countries’ lives. In the story Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Pattillo Beals, Melba integrated an all white school so blacks can get an equal education as whites. In the story I Never Had It Made by Jackie Robinson, Jackie was the first African American to play in the Major Leagues. Finally, in the story “Father of Chinese Aviation” by Rebecca Maksel, Feng Ru, became the first Chinese aviator to build planes of his own design.
It was an oath to God. In the lyrics, it states, “I keep a close watch on this heart of mine... Because you’re mine, I walk the line” (Cash) This means that he is only thinking about her by putting aside drugs and his old wife and not even thinking about them because he is so infatuated with June Carter. “Hurt” by Johnny Cash was another classic that everyone loved but also made people cry. It was a remake of the song originally done by Nine Inch Nails.
Silvia Plath’s Mushrooms and Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s Municipal Gum both use extended metaphors to symbolise the poets experience with oppression. Plath’s mushrooms become symbolic of the rise of housewives whereas Noonuccal compares the oppression of Indigenous Australian’s to a native gum tree imprisoned by a city. Through their inclusive language, both poets biographically reflect their encounters with oppression. Both poems are free verse, as Plath carefully configured 11 stanza 3 lined poem, to ensure there are 5 syllables in each line whereas Noonuccal’s 16 lined poem contains a peculiar end rhyming scheme.
“Sweet Home Alabama” by Ronnie VanZant contains a message that has been at the tip of our noses, but some did not care to actually evaluate it. The catchy song speaks directly to Neil Young, telling him to mind his own business because he [Young] -- a Yankee -- has not lived what the Southerners have. I believe VanZant knew what a problem segregation and the Civil Rights movement were in Alabama, yet he loves the South. In the first stanza, he writes, “I miss ‘ole’ ‘bamy once again…” referring to the State of Alabama. VanZant certainly doesn’t need Young’s opinion, or him in general, as we see in the line, “Well I hope Neil Young will remember A southern man don’t need him around anyhow...”
"I got you! You can't keep a job and you lose me ever' job I get. Jus' keep me shovin' all over the country all the time. An' that ain't the worst. You get in trouble.
What the cock is that shit? But maybe it’s like Take Back the Night. Maybe it’s like how bleeding hearts grow old and swing to the right. Maybe it’s like when a faggot calls himself a faggot.” Silverman sings the entire tune grinning, the contradiction between the endearing upbeat melody and lyrical content creates an amusing sense
Poetry Analysis Once the poem “History Lesson” was written numerous poetry foundations celebrated it for many reasons. “History Lesson” not only makes an impact on literature today it has also impacted people also. This poem inspires people and moves them to the point to where they can find a personal connection to the poem itself and to the writer. Not only does it hold emotional value for those who were victimized and those whose family were victimized by the laws of segregation, but the poem is also celebrated for its complexity. The poem uses many techniques to appeal to the reader.
In the first verse, Scotty McCreery sings about a time he was fishing at the creek as a child. The first time he mentions the theme, which is hidden in the phrase, “five more minutes,” he talks about a simple event that does not hold much meaning or emotion, but he purposefully uses it. The lines that introduce this are “Mama’s on the porch yelling supper’s hot, y’all come and get it” and “We yelled five more minutes.” Scotty starts with a verse like this because it exemplifies how precious time is and how he always tries to create more time for what he loves.
In “The Trouble with Poetry”, and “Introduction to Poetry” Billy Collins focuses on the issue of forced inspiration, and the lack of appreciation readers, and aspiring poets have for the feel of poetry. In “Introduction to Poetry”, Collins mentions that some poetry enthusiasts try too hard to find the meaning of a poem; to try and decipher it like some ancient hieroglyphics, that they forget that poetry is not an essay and does not necessarily have to have a distinct message. In stanza’s seven and eight, the speaker states that poetry should be felt, and that what one poem means to a group of people could have a completely different effect on another group. In stanza eight “Feel the walls” is the speaker’s ways of saying that one should feel a poem and let the poem speak to them, instead of searching for what they believe to be its true meaning.
“Hate Poem” by Julie Sheehan describes how she transformed hatred to love. By looking at her pattern of thinking, it involves her own experience in the daily life that result the conflicts between her loves and hates. This poem begins with “I hate you truly. Truly I do” (1). This opening did not match the idea of a poem about hate; instead it is a poem about love.
The poem, Useless Boys,is one that portrays a feeling of indignation, rebellion and finally, understanding by two boys who grew up with bitter views of their fathers’ onerous jobs. The narrator believes that the only reason his father stays at his job is for the money. In his naivety the son does not realize that at times living selfishly is the way things have to be. Sometimes commitments are made in a self-sacrificial and cowardly manner. No matter how “wrecking” his father’s career, he stays in order to provide for his family.
Gonna get an ak and shoot up a KFC(bang bang) All you stupid niggas do is run shoot and steel The only place you belong is in the got dam cotton field I sit in the front of the bus cuz my name is sparks All you niggers sit in the back sorry rosa parks When I see dead niggers all I do is
Because it has no context behind it, it could imply that demanding his girl to get him a beer is normal, therefore he does not even have to ask. The lyrics suggest that having a big truck and being demanding of his girlfriend is manly. Therefore, these lyrics encourage these kinds of behaviours and label them as manly, which then causes men to act the same way. Another example of song lyrics that reinforce toxic masculinity is “I’m Still A Guy” by Brad Paisley. Paisley sings, “But when you say a back rub means only a back rub.