Tone+Lyric+Project

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**1. You and your group members will be assigned 5 different literary tones. Be certain that you first understand the full meaning of the tone before you begin to locate lyrics. You may bring your iPods to class in order to complete this assignment. ** =====

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**5. Paste an excerpt of the selected lyrics from your song, highlighting the specific diction or syntax that led your group to make the connection. Analyze the tone of the song word by word, phrase by phrase, and line by line. Your analysis for each song should be one paragraph in length. ** =====

**Group 5** **Zach, Dale**, **Gabby**
 * Group 1 Ben, Jess, Mike **
 * Group 2 Melissa, Jazz, Eli **
 * Group 3 Emil, MaryCate **
 * Group 4 Shaina, Kathy, Konrad **
 * Example: **

Cynical

I Am A Rock- Simon and Garfunkel

I am a rock, I am an island. I've built walls, A fortress deep and mighty, That none may penetrate. I have no need of friendship; friendship causes pain. Its laughter and its loving I disdain.
 * -Simon and Garfunkel portray through their lyrics how much they //disdain// human interaction. To shun human interaction thus places a cynical view on the entire human race as opposed to taking each human on an individual basis.**

Don't talk of love**...** If I never loved I never would have cried.
 * I am a rock,**
 * I am an island.**
 * -Love, one of the arguably best human emotions, is disgusting to Simon and Garfunkel and they take the cynical view that all love ends corruptly and badly.**

Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I touch no one and no one touches me.
 * I am shielded in my armor,**
 * I am a rock,**
 * I am an island.**


 * And a rock feels no pain;**
 * And an island never cries.**


 * Simon & Garfunkel present a personality within this song that is quite disenchanted with other human interaction. To be cynical is to look at life in a negative fashion akin to pessimism and to view other humans in a distrustful and contemptuous favor. “I am a Rock” bleeds cynicism in its view of other humans. Through the bolded lyrics, the artists practically scream their belief that humanity is composed of nothing positive, only pain. Seemingly content to be alone while independently residing on an 'island', the artists match their cynicism with both a fast-paced, but slightly sad combination of chords to convey a happy appearance and an underlying and undoubtedly present form of cynicism.**