Poem-Song Project

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Poem-Song Project

• By Kevin Yent

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Poem

• Fakhraddin Gorgani was a 11th century Persian
  poet. He was an influential poet who is
  considered to have written Vis and Ramin which is
  considered the first epic Persian romance between
  1050 and 1055. The poem at the heart of the story
  is Vis, daughter of the queen of Mah and promised
  to Mobad, King of Marv. Against a background of
  court intrigue, broken promises, and open
  conflict, Vis finds herself escorted to her
  future husband by his brother, Raminan impetuous
  prince who cannot help falling in love with his
  charge and jeopardizing the fate of two realms.
  This poem is believed by scholars to be the
  inspiration for Tristan and Isolde.
  (Source-Barnes and Noble)

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Song

• Slightly Stoopid (Band Started in 1995 and is
  still around today) is an American band based in
  Ocean Beach, San Diego, California, who can
  describe their music as "a fusion of acoustic
  rock and blues with reggae, hip-hop, and punk".
  The band was originally discovered and signed by
  Bradley Nowell from the band Sublime to his
  record label skunk records. The band was started
  by childhood friends Miles Doughty (Guitar, Bass,
  Vocals) and Kyle McDonald (Guitar, Bass, Vocals).
  They together gathered musicians Ryan RyMo
  Moran (Drums) and Oguer 'OG' Ocon (Congas,
  Percussion, Harp, Vocals), C-Money (Trumpet,
  Keyboard) and Dela (Saxophone). Miles explains
  The most important thing is you can be playing
  in front of zero people or 20,000 people, and
  youve still got to rock the show. When we were
  first starting out, literally, we played in front
  of nobodyBut after you play that show, they tell
  some of their friends and their friends tell some
  friends. Through this they kept on writing and
  singing songs and eventually wrote mellow mood.
  (Source-Wikipedia)

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PoemThe conclusion to Viss letter to RaminBy
Fakhraddin Gorgani

• Greetings to that tall tree whose leaves conceal
• Within its shape a center formed from steel,
• Greetings to that red jewel whose facets hide
• Thirty unblemished pearls arrayed inside,
• Greetings to those narcissus eyes whose light
• Deprives me of my sleep throughout the night,
• Greetings to that full moon whose course has made
  
• My fortune's moon eclipsed by sorrow's shade,
• Greetings to that fair garden which has left
• My house of patience ruined and bereft,
• Greetings to that green fir tree branch, which
  shows
• How fruitlessly my withered branch now grows,
• Greetings to that sweet rose whose smiles ensure
• My constant weeping here for evermore,
• Greetings to that wild, wanton tulip who
• Has brimmed my weary eyes with morning dew,
• Greetings to that brash rogue whose ruses keep
• My mind from any kind of restful sleep,
• Greeting to that brocade's bright mysteries,

Greetings to that renowned deceiver who Deprives
my heart of all it might pursue, Greetings to
that sweet rose whose heady scent Has filled my
months and years with discontent, Greetings to
those tight curls whose antics shame me So much
that even in Shiraz they blame me, Greetings to
that coy grace, that charming chin That's made my
life a tale of shame and sin, Greetings to glory,
to that radiance That's left me with this sallow
countenance, Greetings to that resplendent
treasury That's made a pastime of oppressing
me, Greetings to that refulgent sun that's
given The world more beauty than the sun in
heaven, Greetings to that sweet rose which is so
fair That roses shed their petals in
despair, Greetings to that tall cypress tree
whose scent's Stronger than jasmine's in its
vehemen Greetings to one I wish success forever
Without whom both my eyes flow like a river, I
wish you joy for all eternity And wish myself
your love and loyalty. May you find happiness,
and may the light That shines from you
illuminate my sight A thousand times I wish, and
wish again, That great good fortune may be yours.
Amen!
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Poem Key Terms

• Repetition
• Tone
• Imagery
• Theme

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Song Mellow MoodSlightly Stoopid

• Hello little darling
• Ain't no need to worry
• Feels right in my arms now
• Why go home, be all alone?
• But if the sunshines know thats because of you
• Just know thats true.
• When all your moneys gone
• Where will you be?
• If your love is strong
• Thats all you need.
• G-Love
• One time you know i love you
• With your funky ass style
• I love you twice a month since you had our first
  child
• Our love runs deep like the blood in my veins
• I love you always, and always the same
• Love remains.
• Love your every change
• Love your every phase

Darling darling i said now whered you go?I
said I'll never know, the way you come and
go.When all your moneys goneWhere will you
be?If your love is strong,Thats all you
need.It's a long long way from home but hold
on.It's a long it's a long long way but hold
on.It's a long it's a long long way but hold
on.It's a long it's a long long way but hold
on.fadeing outCall a 911 and it's
emergencyLord please guide and protect meCall a
911 and it's emergencyLord please guide and
protect me
Darling darling I said now where'd you go?I said
I'll never know, the way you come and go.When
all your moneys goneWhere will you be?If your
love is strongThats all you needCall a 911 and
its emergencyBut even in the 912 do you feel the
urgent seeTo people all around the world who
never heard of meJust leave another message
pleaseLord please guide and protect meI got the
love in my heart I got fire in my soulThis no
type of fire that nobody can controlBut when I'm
up on the micI got the mind overloadThey never
test me just because they dont rock and rollI'm
singing oh my God Lord have mercyThought fools
were gettin bad But now they're even gettin
worse seeSomethings cant be healed up by no
doctors or no nursesIt's time to stop the
fussin' and the fightin' and the cursin'This
world is hopeless,But i love it anywayThats why
they givin all the good love for freeAnd if u
need love, with your lovin are you brave?Come on
and give a little good love to meThats what they
want.
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Song Key Terms

• Repetition
• Tone
• Mood
• Theme

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Comparison

• American based band Slightly Stoopids song
  Mellow Mood and 11th century Persian poet
  Fakhraddin Gorganis The conclusion to Viss
  letter to Ramin have the common theme of lost
  love. Slightly Stoopid starts their song by first
  introducing the little darling of the song.
  They progress through the song by hinting love
  and saying the if the sun shines know thats
  because of you referring to the little darling.
  In the first half of the song Slightly Stoopid
  goes about the darling by talking about her
  personality and saying what they like about her.
  They then go and say love remains inferring
  loss of their significant other. They use lyrics
  to express remorse and guilt for the love the
  share with the person in the song. The then close
  up the song by letting it go and saying that
  love is hopeless, but I love it anyway and then
  going into inferring life goes on by saying Its
  a long long way from home but hold on meaning in
  time love will come again and that one lost love
  is not the end of the world. Basically the whole
  song is about getting over the love a person
  shares for a lost love. Like this though
  Fakhraddin Gorganis poem also obsesses on the
  common theme of lost love. He starts of the poem
  using similar comparisons and telling about his
  love ones beauty and what he loves about her. He
  then uses imagery and compares things that had
  lost something significant to it like fir tree
  with withered branches. He then uses a ton of
  repetition to drive home the fact of lost love
  with constant weeping and other comparisons of
  sadness for his loss. At the end of the poem
  though Gorgani uses words that show the lover get
  over the sadness and wish the best for the
  significant other saying that great good fortune
  may be yours. With the poem and song expressing
  similar, implied topics of lost love and getting
  over their feelings for their loved ones, I
  cannot almost distinguish the difference between
  the two due to the basic similarities they share.
  Unlike Slightly Stoopids straight-forward theme
  of a lost loved one compares to Gorganis poem of
  a lost lover by showing that throughout life,
  love will take its toll and that people and that
  they are constantly falling in and out of love
  and that although you dont want it to end it
  might be better to let them go.