MGRP: Poem Compilation

Directions: Find three poems or songs that have a common theme that link to your topic
through a common theme. Analyze each poem or song for literary techniques and meaning.
This can be through a paragraph or through detailed annotation. Finally write a paragraph
connecting each poem or song to each other and to your topic through a common theme.
Specific reference must be made to each poem or song.

Poem/Song #1

Song Title Redemption song

Poet/Songwriter Bob Marley

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery

None but ourselves can free our minds

Have no fear for atomic energy

'Cause none of them can stop the time

How long shall they kill our prophets

While we stand aside and look? Ooh

Some say it's just a part of it

We've got to fulfill the Book

Literary Techniques Imagery

and Analysis

Poem/Song #2

Song Title Get up, stand up

 Poet/Songwriter Bob Marley

Getter, setter, stand up for your right

Getter, setter, stand up for your right

Getter, setter, stand up for your right

Getter, setter, don't give up the fight

Preacher man don't tell me heaven is under the earth

I know you don't know what life is really worth

Is not all that glitters in gold and

Half the story has never been told

So now you see the light, aay

Stand up for your right. Come on

Getter, setter, stand up for your right

Getter, setter, don't give up the fight

Allusion
Literary Techniques
and Analysis

Poem/Song #3

Song Title Stir it up

Poet/Songwriter Bob MArley

Come on and stir it up, little darlin'!

Stir it up, come on, baby!

Come on and stir it up, yeah!

Little darlin', stir it up! O-oh!

I'll push the wood Then I blaze ya fire

Then I'll satisfy your heart's desire.

Said, I stir it together

Every minute

All you got to do, baby,

Is keep it in, and

oh, little darlin'

Stir it up, baby!

Come on and stir it up, oh-oh-oh!

Little darlin', stir it up! Wo-oh! Mm, now, now

Quench me when I'm thirsty

Come on and cool me down, baby, when I'm hot

Your recipe is, darlin' is so tasty

When you show and stir your pot

Metaphor
Literary Techniques
and Analysis
Write a paragraph discussing how the poems/songs connect to your topic and each other. You
must make specific reference to each of the poems/songs.

In the first song the writer Bob Marley uses imagery to show how he feels about what is going
on around him. The second song relates to the first song because now he is talking about
standing up for what him and other people like him believe in. in the third song he says, Stir
it up, come on, baby which i think he is talking about a girl but it can also mean
to start something or provoke someone.