Question

Can someone please help me, ASAP! Write a song poetry by following the examples that the question explains, and list the song name/singer. The poetry has to be a song, and don't forget to list the name and the person who sings it. Include the answers to the questions below about the song.

1. What is the literal meaning of the poem? You may need to paraphrase lines to get to this. Look up words you don't know.



2. Who is the speaker in the poem (like a narrator, but it's called the persona in poetry). Is there a listener or another character who acts as the recipient? Is it you? Someone else?



3. What is the speaker's tone, or what is the tone of the poem? Which words reveal this tone? (The tone can be sad, happy, ironic, dark, hopeful, child-like, etc...)



4. What heavily connotative words are used?


connotation=what the word makes you think of, what feelings the word evokes denotation=the dictionary definition



5. What concrete images does the poet use?

sight / sound / taste / touch / smell


Do any of these concrete images help to convey an abstract idea?

love/hate/death/loneliness


6. What figures of speech are used? simile (like or as comparison) “but I hung on like death....” metaphor (comparison) look at "The Journey" for an example personification=giving human-like qualities to inanimate objects (or concepts)


symbolism=a concrete object/image that stands for more than its literal meaning.

alliteration=repetition of an initial sound "in a deep and dark December"


allusion=reference to a historical, biblical, or mythological event or person



7. What is the occasion or setting of the poem? Is it important to the meaning?



8. What is the role of metrics (rhyme, rhythm)



9. Is the form important? Stanza breaks, rhyme scheme, individual lines...)



10. What else seems important or interesting about the poem?

Answer 1

Title: Lost and Found

Verse 1:

I'm searching high and low

For a piece of my soul

I've been wandering for miles

Looking for what I've known

Chorus:

Lost and found, it's a never-ending game

Trying to find my way back again

But the road is long and the journey is hard

Will I ever find what I'm looking for?

Verse 2:

Every step I take

Feels like a step away

From where I used to be

From the place I long to stay

Chorus:

Lost and found, it's a never-ending game

Trying to find my way back again

But the road is long and the journey is hard

Will I ever find what I'm looking for?

Bridge:

I know I'm not alone

In this search for home

And I'll keep on moving forward

Until I find what I've been looking for

Chorus:

Lost and found, it's a never-ending game

Trying to find my way back again

But the road is long and the journey is hard

Will I ever find what I'm looking for?

Outro:

Lost and found, it's a never-ending game

But I won't stop searching until I find my way

Lost and found, it's a never-ending game

But I'll keep on playing until I find my way

1. The poem is about the search for meaning or purpose in life.

2. The speaker is the persona of the poem, and it is not clear if there is a listener or another character who acts as the recipient.

3. The tone is hopeful, with words like "keep on moving forward" and "won't stop searching."

4. Connotative words include "lost," "found," "search," and "home."

5. Concrete images include "searching high and low," "wandering for miles," and "every step I take."

6. Figures of speech include the metaphor of the search for meaning as a "never-ending game" and the personification of the road as "long and hard."

7. The setting is not specified but is likely to be an internal or metaphorical setting.

8. Metrics are a free-verse poem.

9. The form is important in that it follows a traditional verse-chorus structure.

10. The poem explores universal themes of the search for meaning and purpose in life.

Hope this helps!