PUB #5

Music in a way is a type of literature with its rhyme scheme, and mood that the song can evoke in the listener. Many musicians can be classified as poets, because their lyrics tell a story much like a poem does. Poems and music are similar for the rhythm that they both possess. The two poems I chose “To my dear and Loving Husband” by Anne Bradstreet, and “Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds” by William Shakespeare. These poems can be connected to the song “Home” By Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros which talks about a couple feeling most connected when they are home together.

In the poem “My Dear And Loving Husband” by Anne Bradstreet the poem opens with “If ever two were one, the surely we.” What Bradstreet is trying to say is her and her husband are one even though they are in separate bodies. The love from her husband is the only thing that can quench her thirst not even a river can do that. The feeling that love gives her is greater than all the riches in the world. “I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold”. “My love is such that rivers cannot quench”. “Thy love is such I can no way repay” the love that her husband has provided her with she can never repay him for the devotion that he has given to her. Bradstreet finishes the poem with “Then while we live, in love lets so persever, That when we live no more we may live ever.” While they are alive they shall love, so when they live no more that love will live on forever. The theme of this poem ties into the tone that it provides. The theme is a mixture of happiness and sadness as is the tone. The happiness of the poem is that the love that her husband provides to her is something that is everlasting and true, and the sadness that is shown is that when they die that love will live on beyond their years.

In the sonnet “Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds” by William Shakespeare the poem opens with “Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments.” Shakespeare is trying to say that true love doesn’t have an restrictions to it. “Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds” love is not love if it doesn’t change under the slightest of circumstances. “Or bends with the remover to remove.” Love is not love if it does not change for that person. “O no! it is an ever fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand’ring bark” love is never shaken by anything it is permanent. This line in the poem is trying to say, Love is a guide like a star for a ship that doesn’t know where it’s going. “Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks, Within his bending sickle’s compass come.” Love is not phased by time it is timeless, even if those once rosy cheeks fade away into time. “Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom.” Love does not change even with the hours and weeks that go by. Love will only end when the end of the world comes. “If this be error and upon me prov’d, I never writ, nor no man ever lov’d.” The final lines Shakespeare discusses about how everything he discussed above if it is wrong then everything he has written is false, and no man in the world has ever loved. The theme of this sonnet is that love exists no matter what love is a constant. All the facts listed by Shakespeare are true no man can not love someone or something love makes you do crazy things it can come over you like an afternoon thunderstorm. Those thunderstorms are sudden and quick just like much of the love that we endure.

In the song “Home” written by Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros the whole point of this song is to describe how a man fell in love with a woman just by spending time with her. The title of this song perfectly describes what the lyrics are saying and that is when the man is with the woman he feels at home. “Home, let me come home, home is whenever I’m with you” when the two are together they feel at home and feel a sense of unity between one another. These lines within the song can be connected to the poem “To My Dear and Loving Husband” When Bradstreet states “If ever two were one, then surely we.” She feels when she is with her husband that they are one just like the couple does in the song. When Sharpe sings “And in the streets you run afree, like its only you and me” Nothing in the world matters to them except eachother feeling free while running through those very streets. This can also be related to Bradstreets poem when she states “I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold” no amount of gold will amount to how rich the love from her husband gives. As long as she has love nothing matters in the world. In the song Sharpe states “While you were sitting in the back seat smoking a cigarette you thought it was gonna be your last, I was falling deep, deeply in love with you, and I never told you till just now!” From the moment he met her he fell in love with her that love that he feels will never end in fact it will bring him home. These lines in the song can be associated with Shakespeare’s sonnet when he says “Love’s not times fool, though rosy lips and cheeks, within his bending sickles compass come.” Love is not phased by time it is timeless, even if those once rosy cheeks of the loved one fade away into time.

The song “Home” is also used in one of my favorite romance movies “Stuck in love”. The movie tells the story of a man named Bill who recently divorced his wife, but he was still very much in love with her. His children Rusty and Sam knew that their father still loved their mother. They were too developed in their own love lives to pay attention to their father. Sam was afraid to fall in love, because she did not want to end up like her father chasing something that he would never catch. Rusty never found love until he found one girl Kate who only looked for boys that would give her something quick and meaningless. Rusty helps Kate find the beauty in life through love. At the end of the movie the song Home is playing, and their mother comes to Bills home to have dinner. The song is symbolic in this sense, because the mother arrives ar Bills house, and realizes that the love that she was looking for was waiting for her at home all along.