Song Contrast and Comparison: Anything for Your Love by Eric Clapton (Essay Sample)

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Linguistics sample essay test
8 July 2017
Poem and Song Contrast and Comparison
This is a contrast and comparison of the poem What Can I Hold You With by Jorge Luis Borges and the song Anything for Your Love by Eric Clapton. Both were written to send a message of love to the readers in trying to win someone’s heart. Although, in the poem What Can I Hold You With, the mood is more forlorn, darker and sadder. The man is talking about bitterness and loneliness. The song Anything for Your Love has a lighter mood and the man has a more positive outlook on declaring love.
As one reads through the poem, the events that happened in the man’s life are being told. These sad moments are all part of what he can offer the girl aside from his humor, loyalty, and manliness. They have shaped him to what he is today as he declares his love for her. In the middle part of the poem, it shows what has been left of the man from everything that occurred in his life. A disloyal man in the past, he is now ready to give loyalty to this person and the part of himself, which is his heart that’s been strengthened through the events that went by. The yellow rose in the poem symbolizes joy that was there during sunsets for many years before the girl came to the world and all were chaotic. Giving hope to the time of war that the man experienced and from his father who was a soldier. This part shows a recovery of the man from the loneliness he was feeling while looking at the moon in the first part of the poem. The man is older than the girl and has gained more wisdom enabling him to give theories on what the girl is about. In terms of analyzing this, the man witnessed the girl grow and saw events in her life that she can’t remember because she was too young. The complexity of the man is demonstrated in the last part of the poem showing the different emotions he feels. There is a more realistic touch to this because the man wants the girl to love him despite of everything that he experienced, including the melancholic ones.
In contrast to the poem, What Can I Hold You With, this one opens the song with hope talking about God’s plan for the man and the girl. The song does not speak of every struggle that the man experienced, but instead goes straight to telling the girl that anything will be done to win her love. Diamond was used in reference to the heart giving the idea that it cannot be broken and that love will conquer all. The flexibility of the type of love the man can give is unshakable because of how much he loves the girl. The approach of the man towards love does not talk about loneliness, sadness, bitterness nor desperation. The man in the poem has seen and gone through war, devastation, and hopeful times. In the song, it is not told if the man is younger older, or the same age as the girl because it talks about unstoppable love and almost nothing else. The man also does not tell the girl about his complexities compared to what was shown in the poem. There is transparency in the poem, while the mood of the song is happier, but less realistic.
Pertaining to the structure of these two pieces, it is not vague that they differ even if some poems are lyrical. This one is narrative and dramatic when it is read aloud which is evident as one reads through every line. The pace of the poem is slower in comparison to the song because it has more parts in telling the story of the man. The song does not tell any story and the speed does not change while it is being sung. It remains constant all throughout until the song finishes and it becomes repetitive while it gets closer to the end.
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