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Poem/Song Project

Poem/Song Project. By Alex Hancock. Initiation Rainer Maria Rilke.

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Poem/Song Project

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  1. Poem/Song Project By Alex Hancock

  2. InitiationRainer Maria Rilke Whoever you are, go out into the evening,leaving your room, of which you know each bit;your house is the last before the infinite,whoever you are.Then with your eyes that wearilyscarce lift themselves from the worn-out door-stoneslowly you raise a shadowy black treeand fix it on the sky: slender, alone.And you have made the world (and it shall growand ripen as a word, unspoken, still).When you have grasped its meaning with your will,then tenderly your eyes will let it go…

  3. Shinedown (written by Brent Smith)Second Chance • My eyes are open wideAnd by the way, I made itThrough the dayI watched the world outsideBy the way, I'm leaving outTodayI just saw Haley's cometShe wavedSaid why you always runningIn place?Even the man in theMoon disappearedSomewhere in theStratosphere

  4. Second Chance (Cont.) [Chorus]Tell my mother,Tell my fatherI've done the best I canTo make them realizeThis is my lifeI hope they understandI'm not angry, I'm just saying...Sometimes goodbyeIs a second chancePlease don't cryOne tear for meI'm not afraid ofWhat I have to sayThis is my one andOnly voiceSo listen close, it'sOnly for today

  5. Second Chance (Cont.) [Chorus]Tell my mother,Tell my fatherI've done the best I canTo make them realizeThis is my lifeI hope they understandI'm not angry, I'm just saying...Sometimes goodbyeIs a second chanceHere's my chanceThis is my chanceTell my mother,Tell my fatherI've done the best I canTo make them realizeThis is my lifeI hope they understandI'm not angry, I'm just saying...Sometimes goodbyeIs a second chanceSometimes goodbyeIs a second chance [x2]

  6. Thesis: Both Second Chance and Initiation deal with the notion of leaving the “norm” behind, in that one must leave their comfort zone in order to experience life to the fullest and to achieve their dreams. • Smith Literary techniques: • Imagery • Symbolism • Refrain/Repetition • Use of first person • Tone • Rilke Literary techniques: • Imagery • Tone • Aphorism • Symbolism

  7. Brent Smith (born January 10, 1978) is a singer and songwriter who is the lead vocalist of the band Shinedown. Smith is known to have an unusually wide vocal range and has claimed that he has never had any formal lessons or instructions. Brent has previously suffered with an addiction to drugs such as cocaine and Oxycontin, but has now been sober for over a year. He credited the birth of his son with this turn around, stating that he "saved me from my vanity." This song Second Chance was one of his band’s biggest hits and it was featured on the 2008 album The Sound of Madness.

  8. Rainer Maria Rilke (born December 4, 1875) was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and art critic. He is considered one of the most significant poets in the German language. His haunting images focus on the difficulty of communion with the indescribable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety: themes that tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist poets. • Comparison Between the two • Both write a lot about imagining a life which would be a departure from the norm • Both have suffered from vices (Smith with drugs and Rilke from alcohol) • Prevalent themes include the idea of getting up and going after your dreams even if it means you have to leave your previous life behind

  9. Brent Smith’s Second Chance and Rainer Maria Rilke’s Initiation both deal with carpe-diem themes in leaving your comfort zones and chasing after your dreams. Smith watches “the world outside” and feels as though his life is stuck in neutral. Smith feels as though he is always “running in one place” and not going out and trying to achieve his dreams. He decides that sometime “goodbye is a second chance,” and that he must leave his life behind in order to get a chance to live his life to the fullest. Rilke deals with the same theme in that the speaker in the poem is imploring the reader to use “initiation” and leave your comfort zone, or your “room of which you know every bit,” and go and live your life. Rilke implores the reader that once they leave their comfort zone, that the world around them will grow and that once this happens, you will not feel the need to cling to the norm. Both authors share the theme of escaping the norm to go chase your dreams and live your life to the fullest.

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