"My Wish " - Rascal Flatts(after all poems is song for comparison : )

“My Wish” Lyrics
Artist(Band):Rascal Flatts

I hope the days come easy and the moments pass slow,
and each road leads you where you want to go,
and if you're faced with a choice, and you have to choose,
I hope you choose the one that means the most to you.
and if one door opens to another door closed,
I hope you keep on walkin' 'til you find the window,
if it's cold outside,
show the world the warmth of your smile,
but more than anything, more than anything,

My wish, for you, is that this life becomes all that you want it to,
your dreams stay big, your worries stay small,
You never need to carry more than you can hold,
and while you're out there getting where you're getting to,
I hope you know somebody loves you, and wants the same things too,
Yeah, this, is my wish.

I hope you never look back, but ya never forget,
all the ones who love you, in the place you left,
I hope you always forgive, and you never regret,
and you help somebody every chance you get,
Oh, you find God's grace, in every mistake,
and always give more then you take.

But more than anything, Yeah, and more than anything,

My wish, for you, is that this life becomes all that you want it to,
your dreams stay big, and your worries stay small,
You never need to carry more than you can hold,
and while you're out there getting where you're getting to,
I hope you know somebody loves you, and wants the same things too,
Yeah, this, is my wish.

My wish, for you, is that this life becomes all that you want it to,
your dreams stay big, your worries stay small,
You never need to carry more than you can hold,
and while you're out there getting where you're getting to,
I hope you know somebody loves you, and wants the same things too,
Yeah, this, is my wish.
this is my wish
i hope you know somebody loves you
may all your dreams stay big
(Repeat)
(Chorus)

Lyrics by Steele, Jeffrey; Robsin, Steve. Sung By Rascal Flatts. "My Wish" http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/my-wish-lyrics-rascal-flatts/b4d9ec29360544ce48257143000a54cd. Song.


To assist in figuring what a work is considered such as determining a song from a poem, I have to focus on a single song to help analyze and give examples and so I chose the song "My Wish" by Rascal Flatts. This is one of my favorite songs by one of my favorite groups and it is different in which I think it is really happy and optimistic unlike most of the poems that are in my anthology. I chose this because it fits under my theme being future wishes, but is seen as different in a way that there is not wishing for oneself but for someone else and is really giving off a caring and generous appeal to it wanting the best for another rather than oneself. This song I think can be believed to be a poetic one, but it is mainly to be sung in purpose and so it would help me to compare the structure and elements of a poem to a song. The writers Steele and Robsin wrote this song inspired for various people's growing up and moving on in their life who are going somewhere having it be career, education, starting a family life which can bring great happiness and change for someone and wanting things to work out for the best in goals and accomplishments that come across. I just really find the lyrics very touching and emotional expressing one's caring love and cherishing whether it be a family member, friend, or even a stranger the wishing someone else best in the future is really benevolent and selfless to do that I think shows a lot of good character in people who do things like giving to charity shows and substantiates that there's goodness in people even through all the bad that also comes about from people's actions.

The song structure; as seen in each stanza with not much end sentence structure but with many commas, is one more of run-on and containing rhythm, beat, melody, and set to some kind of background music usually with instruments, but can be acapella too. Poems also do not always have an end marking that tells the reader where there is a new idea, but a single poem line or a few tend to make a sentence or finish an idea. Poems tend to tell a story or give off more emotional appeal than some songs that at times songs don't have to make sense or be feeling to hear having a word filling effect. When I say a word filling effect I mean that it seems that there are not many various words, but a repeated content of words and lines tend to fill up over half or more in the whole works.

Word filling effect can be seen in Rascal Flatts song having the chorus:

"My wish, for you, is that this life becomes all that you want it to,
your dreams stay big, and your worries stay small,
You never need to carry more than you can hold,
and while you're out there getting where you're getting to,
I hope you know somebody loves you, and wants the same things too,
Yeah, this, is my wish."

be in every other stanza, which I think sums up the whole songs meaning which is similar in many other songs. Songs most prominent features noticed are that there are normally many more refrains(repeated chorus) in a song than in poems and songs usually are longer in length(3-5 minutes on average), and songs also have basic structure's with an intro, verse, chorus, and bridge. Language of the times and format can also be good indicators of poetry versus song lyrics. There are many number of poetry elements such as allegory, alliteration, assonance, denotation and connotation, diction, irony, metaphor, simile, rhyme is typical of what many people think of when hearing the word poetry, and of these going along with all sorts of imagery that poems can give the reader. Other elements of some types of poetry that can be seen in songs include meter, symbolism, tone, word order, rhythm, theme, and a rhyme scheme.
Going into the elements and traits of songs contrasted with poems can be really useful and allow some to appreciate poetry more in it's purpose and existence, so when doing an assignment such as to distinguish between different literary works there is a lot to learn about poetry and all it's forms.