ok i am writing a brainstorm for a poem about music. i need to use metaphors in my writing. i am having trouble thinking of some. if some of you could give me some of your ideas i'd appreciate it greatly.
2007-04-30 12:55:59 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
i don't care about what the metphors are about i just need them to be about music, maybe how they float through the air......idk, i just need a lil bit of help.
2007-04-30 13:03:52 · update #1
i know not all poems need rhyming, thats why our assignment is a free verse poem. but our assignment also says we have to have the correct use of metaphores. i am having trouble with that so i am asking for your help.
2007-04-30 13:16:48 · update #2
Well, you just used one metaphor in your question:
"notes floating through the air."
notes
sound
waves
pitch
flat/sharp
voices
crescendo
softly
speaking / tones
staccato
Use these in analogy with music to convey an emotion or thought, and you'll have what you need.
2007-04-30 13:13:50 · answer #1 · answered by Bobby Jim 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Metaphors say that something is something else without using the words like or as. So taking the idea of one of the other answerers and turning the simile into a metaphor "The musical notes were the autumn leaves of a tree falling softly on me."
2007-04-30 20:07:13 · answer #2 · answered by The PENsive Insomniac 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay, dear ... a metaphor is not a phrase that has the words 'is like' in it. A 'metaphor' is something else that is 'entirely different' but which 'says something about' the subject ... so a 'good metaphor' for 'music' depends on the 'style' of music. I listen to a lot of 'classical' music, and I would say that Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue' is 'a cacaphony of erotic chaos' ... and Beethoven's 9th Symphony is 'the joy we find in loving God' (although that may be 'too easy' since that piece includes 'The Ode to Joy' which is about 'loving God' in German). I also love Jimi Hendrix and his music is 'heavy lightness wafting through the leaves in summer' to me. You should 'find your own 'metaphors' by sitting down and 'listening' to the music which your 'poem' is about ... and you can't really write about 'music in general' because music is a 'metaphor' of it's own for 'life' expressed in the 'tones and changes and rhythms' of the 'instruments' (including the human voice) that 'make it' happen.
2007-04-30 20:50:10 · answer #3 · answered by Kris L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well what could you say music reminded you of? The drum = the beating of the heart? The flute - the song of a nightengale? George Harrison used a musical metaphor - While My Guitar Gently Weeps. You have to figure out what music means to you - what it sounds like. How it makes you feel. Does it make your heart dance? Your soul cry? Think of things like that. Pax - C.
2007-04-30 20:07:35 · answer #4 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sorry but I dont have any suggestions for you except for this......
Poems come from inside you. A poem needs to reflect your feelings or opinions on something. I'm not trying to offend you, I'm just saying what I believe is the whole point of a poem.
If you want inspiratiion, then listen to your favourite songs and relax, if it's inside yoou it will come to you.
2007-04-30 20:03:34 · answer #5 · answered by Aasta 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The music falls softly on the wind, its gracefull tune forever turning over in the trees. The sea dances to its beat, all the world sways to the sound.
2007-04-30 20:33:41 · answer #6 · answered by *~Filthy Gorgeous~* 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
music is water, music is life, music is love, music is a storm, music is whatever you want it to be. =]
heh iono just right out of the top of my head =] good luck on your poem!
2007-04-30 20:09:19 · answer #7 · answered by whispertotherain 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not all poems need metaphors and a rhyme sceme.
2007-04-30 20:12:48 · answer #8 · answered by seryanton 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Music can be sweet like sugar or bubblegum. Music can be hot like jazz.
2007-04-30 20:01:38 · answer #9 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
'the notes fell softly upon me like the leaves of a tree in autumn"...
2007-04-30 20:01:42 · answer #10 · answered by woofan60 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋