[url=http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html]The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock[/url] I've heard lots of different theories on what it's about, but it seems to be about a loser middle-age guy at a party who can't talk to girls. Could be more but it's definitely about that, at least on the surface It's a modernist poem as well, so keep taht in mind
"A Weekend in the Country" by Stephen Sondheim is so witty it's unreal. [url=http://www.allmusicals.com/lyrics/littlenightmusic/aweekendinthecountry.htm]Lyrics[/url] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwNbW7_aF_E]Music[/url]
A favorite verse:
I've an intriguing little social item-- Out of the Armfeldt family manse. Merely a weekend, still, I thought it might am- Use you to know Who's invited to go, This time with his pants.
where "item" and "might am-" rhyme. Like who thinks of that. Geniuses do. And to top it off, the English is beautiful and that last kicker is really funny.
I would also recommend texts from Mahler symphonies/songs but they're in German so the artistry in rhymes etc is lost in translation
You can probably pull something from a Dr Seuss book and say how it was at a jab at World War 2 and Nazi Germany or some sort. Maybe even something from Shel Silverstein.
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Yeah Walt Whitman poems- Song of Myself
maybe even the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock if you wanna go nuts!
Yonkers - Tyler, The Creator
or anything by sylvia plath l o l
The Wasteland by T.S. Elliot
Sailing to Byzantium - Yeats
O Captain! My Captain!
BY WALT WHITMAN
[url=http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html]The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock[/url]
I've heard lots of different theories on what it's about, but it seems to be about a loser middle-age guy at a party who can't talk to girls.
Could be more but it's definitely about that, at least on the surface
It's a modernist poem as well, so keep taht in mind
"A Wanderer's Song" by John Masefield.
"A Weekend in the Country" by Stephen Sondheim is so witty it's unreal.
[url=http://www.allmusicals.com/lyrics/littlenightmusic/aweekendinthecountry.htm]Lyrics[/url]
[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwNbW7_aF_E]Music[/url]
A favorite verse:
I've an intriguing little social item--
Out of the Armfeldt family manse.
Merely a weekend, still, I thought it might am-
Use you to know
Who's invited to go,
This time with his pants.
where "item" and "might am-" rhyme. Like who thinks of that. Geniuses do. And to top it off, the English is beautiful and that last kicker is really funny.
I would also recommend texts from Mahler symphonies/songs but they're in German so the artistry in rhymes etc is lost in translation
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You can probably pull something from a Dr Seuss book and say how it was at a jab at World War 2 and Nazi Germany or some sort. Maybe even something from Shel Silverstein.