TABLE OF CONTENTS Page 2: Song (Hey joe- Jimmi Hendrix) and photo. Page 3: Analysis of song. Page 4: Poem (William Carlos Williams- This is just to say) and photo. Page 5: Reference.
Hey Joe- Jimi Hendrix Hey joe, where you goin' with that gun of your hand hey joe, i said where you goin' with that gun in your hand, oh i'm goin' down to shoot my old lady you know i caught her messin' 'round with another man yeah, i'm goin' down to shoot my old lady you know i caught her messin' 'round with another man huh! and that ain't cool huh hey hoe, i heard you shot your mamma down you shot her down now hey joe, i heard you shot your lady down you shot her down in the groud yeah! yeah! yes, i did, i shot her you know i caught her messin' round messin' round town huh, yes i did i shot her you know i caught my old lady messin' 'round town and i gave her the gun and i shot her alright shoot her one more time again baby! yeah! oh dig it oh alright hey joe, where you gonna run to now where you gonna go hey joe, i said where you gonna run to now where you gonna go i'm goin' way down south way down to mexico way alright i'm goin' way down south 2
way down where i can be free ain't no one gonna find me ain't no hang-man gonna he ain't gonna put a rope around me you better believe it right now i gotta go now hey, joe you better run on down goodbye everybody hey hey joe
Analysis of song: This song was written in 1967. Hey Joe is a song of the first album of The Jimi Hendrix Experience (group of Jimi Hendrix). The name of album are Are you experience. This album beats records. This song represent maltreatment of men over women. The speaker is omniscient. At the beginning is in 3st person, but at the finally of song the speaker is in 1st person. When I listen this song, I imagine a man in the darkness. He shots at a woman. After he escapes in a car. The lenguage of this song is simple. Hendrix uses same lines sometimes and hey joe is free verse, doesn’t follow any poetic form and the words rhyme at the end of lines, but in the middle of lines sometimes too. In this ages (1960-70’s), ghettos of America lived a brutal violence, Hendrix tried to express this violence.
Jimi Hendrix. Jimmi Hendrix was born in Seatle, in 27 november of 1942. He is the best guitarist of all times. He started play the guitar at 14 years old. In his adolescente, he lives with his grandmother in a poor suburb. He get made famous playing guitar and made the group: The Jimi Hendrix experience. He is addicted at heroine, cocaine and other drugs. He dead in London in september of 1970.
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William Carlos Williams- This is just to say I have eaten -4 the plums -2 that were in -3 the icebox -3
a b a b
and which -2 a you were probably -5 saving -2 c for breakfast -3 d
b
Forgive me -3 a they were delicious -5 b so sweet -2 a and so cold -3 b
Analysis of poem: This poem has very short verses. The plums represent a type of treachery like an infidelity, so the poem is a metaphor. I think this way because the words the poet uses aren’t the words used in ordinary life, but in poetry. About the form of this poem, I need to say that the lines are very short, no more than 4 syllables, and the stanzas have got 4 lines. This poem doesn’t follow any poetic form. The words rhyme at the end of lines. The poet used usual words, as if the speaker talks with a friend, girlfriend or boyfriend. The speaker is in 1st person and he’s an omniscient narrator. The sentences are broken and they are divided in two lines or more. The writer talks to the reader, I mean, the poem is address to his couple or his friend. I think that the writer want to talk about infidelity, but with frankness. The writer talks about treachery with delicacy because he writes this in age of repression.
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William Carlos Williams He was a important writer modernist of New Jersey. He was born in september of 1883. He’s famous for his poems of free form, usual lenguage and easy understanding. William Carlos William was doctor all his life. He was dead in march of 1963.
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