The Rain Song

Song lyrics have always been more poetic than people tend to give credit, through their imaginative and emotional style of expressing the author’s intents yet allowing each listener to add their own experiences into the interpretation. Recorded in 1972 and released in 1973, Led Zeppelin’s “The Rain Song” displays the bands creative genius in producing a ballad that has stood the test of time. At the suggestion of Led Zeppelin drummer, John Bonham, following a discussion with George Harrison about the band not writing ballads, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, both lyrical geniuses, wrote this charming ballad about love (“Songfacts”). Jimmy Page and Robert Plant used metaphor, simile, and symbolism in order to compose a song that anyone can relate…

Cross My Heart” It is 8:00 P.M. and it is pouring rain, emotionally froze and tired, sleep is the farthest worry from the mind. Dancing in the falling rain, thinking, this is not how life was supposed to happen. In everyday life no one understands the struggle for some and the ease of others. One may not understand the pain that a person carries around with them everyday, just because the smile fooled him or her. Sometimes a song or a movie can carry more meaning for a person than one may…

I am going to compare and contrast Adele’s song “Set fire to the rain” and Schubert’s “Death and the maiden op. 7 no. 3” "Der Tod und das Mädchen", D. 531, written in 1817 (7 years before the String Quartet with the same theme in the second movement, no. 14, D810) It is true that both songs have very catchy tunes, and are easy to listen to, especially with the ascending notes, it is like a party for our ears, knowing where the melody is going strikes up a feeling of repetition and unity within…

There Will Come Soft Rains by Pamela Madsen is a six-movement oratorio that reflects upon “the 20th-century fascination for utopian salvation in California, the need for water and the meaning of rain” (Madsen, There Will Come Soft Rains). Inspired by the Mojave Desert, Madsen’s work involves intimate chamber music and sounds that collaborate with visual media and literary texts. The concert is performed by the Los Angeles Percussion Quartet, the Eclipse String Quartet, and pianist Vicki Ray, who…

Would you rather live where you grew up or would you move away? The poem for “The Drought” by Gary Soto and the song “In Color” by Jamey Johnson have similar themes because they are both have dry, emotional theme but they are different because “The Drought” is emotional talking about the lack of rain and “In Color” is emotional talking about his childhood. Gary Soto uses personification to show the clouds are dry and empty. “Scraping their bellies gray on the cracked shingles of slate.” The…

appeared– it started raining and did not stop for the rest of the trip... I remember being stressed out as I was the one in the back of the canoe who steers. Why did I make that choice? It was hard to control the canoe in the rough river, and the cold hard rain did not help. Many hours later, we were glad when we rounded to the eighth mile because we were tired and hungry. I remember the anger and frustration I felt when the adults mentioned that we had a third left of the trip for the day.…

mentions in Chapter 9: It 's More Than Just Rain or Snow, weather can define a story. Weather has the ability to add an otherwise unknown or invisible mood that the writer wants the readers to feel. Weather is used in stories as more than just simply part of the setting. As Foster says,"Weather is never just weather." By this he is saying that the weather means something, it is symbolizing something of a greater meaning. Ray Bradbury is an author who is able to tell his stories incredibly well…

Lesson Plan Format Type of Lesson Read-Aloud Lesson Students will be reinforcing what they have already learned about the five senses through Rain by Manya Stojic, with a discussion focusing on the difference in the five senses and the impact they have on the story and its characters. Information about the Class Grade Level: 27 Kindergarteners Reading Levels: The students in this class cannot read on their own yet. Diversity – Gender: 12 girls and 15 boys. Linguistic Diversity: From what has…

The weather was cold, rain clouds had cloaked the sky in despair. The music rang out like echoing children. The rain started to trickle down now making me cold. Not feeling safe here I began to run. I ran, and I ran and I ran till I couldn't do it any more. I still wasn't out of the city. I could still hear the songs play. Fell to the ground now feeling safer, even if I wasn't completely satisfied. The clouds grew thicker and then it wasn't much of a sprinkle but now a downpour. This was the…

to feed their stock. Grazing and pasture becomes abundant during raining seasons. In the drier months, grazing fields wither, but pasture recovers shortly during the raining season, and animal population surges during this season. In time, climate change conditions such as rain shortages and prolonged periods of drought, coupled with a population upsurge in the herding communities increases to such a degree that overgrazing lead to an irreversible land deterioration. Thus, the carrying…