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Song Explanation for How Do I Love Thee?

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Song Explanation for How Do I Love Thee?

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Bless the Broken Road by Rascal Flatts is similar to the poem by Elizabeth Barret Browning mostly because they are both about love. In the song rascal flatts talks about how he loves somebody so much and how destiny and fate are leading him to this person. The same thing happens in the poem when the author states "My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace." (Browning, 3-4)

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Bless the Broken Road
By: Rascal Flatts
https://youtu.be/lZp6pmgbZyU

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In the first line of the sonnet Browning starts off by asking the readers how she loves somebody. In the beginning of the poem she speaks of how inanimate objects love like her soul. As the poem goes on she starts to love with things that are more physical and real like breath, smiles, and tears. The author ends the poem by saying that god led her down this path and that she will love them even after death.

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By: Elizabeth Barret Browning

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.

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The song 100 Years by Five for Fighting goes very well with The Dash by Linda Ellis because they are both about how fast time flies. In the poem the man compares life to a dash. He also says that people have to learn to enjoy all of the little moments in life in order for them to achieve the maximum amount of happiness for their lifetime. In the song 100 Years this can be seen when the lyrics say "I'm fifteen for a moment." and the author continually goes through different ages and says they all only last for a moment because life is a dash.

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100 Years
By: Five for Fighting
https://youtu.be/W2WGGNiC8f4

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The Dash is about how the author heard a man speak during the eulogy he was reading to his friend that had passed. He referred to all of the important dates in the mans life and to the dates on the tombstone as important points along the dash which symbolized the mans life. He said that, "What matters is how we live and love and how we spend our dash." (Ellis, 15-16). The moral was that time flies so people have to enjoy the important things in their life.

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By: Linda Ellis

​I read of a man who stood to speak
at the funeral of a friend.
He referred to the dates on the tombstone
from the beginning…to the end.

He noted that first came the date of birth
and spoke the following date with tears,
but he said what mattered most of all
was the dash between those years.

For that dash represents all the time
that they spent alive on earth.
And now only those who loved them
know what that little line is worth.

For it matters not, how much we own,
the cars…the house…the cash.
What matters is how we live and love
and how we spend our dash.

So, think about this long and hard.
Are there things you’d like to change?
For you never know how much time is left
that can still be rearranged.

If we could just slow down enough
to consider what’s true and real
and always try to understand
​the way other people feel.

And be less quick to anger
and show appreciation more
and love the people in our lives
like we’ve never loved before.

If we treat each other with respect
and more often wear a smile,
remembering that this special dash
might only last a little while.

​So, when your eulogy is being read,
with your life’s actions to rehash…
would you be proud of the things they say
about how you spent YOUR dash?

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The song Unwritten, by Natasha Bedingfield, is similar to the poem Invictus, by William Ernest Henley, mostly in the way that Henley's last stanza compares to the song Unwritten. In the last stanza he writes, "I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul." (Henley, 15-16). Here the author is saying that nobody can control his fate. This is similar to the song because the lyrics state that nobody can write somebody's destiny which is like the poem where he said nobody is the master of is fate.

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Unwritten
By: Natasha Bedingfield
https://youtu.be/TtGY4G7II6s

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In the first stanza Henley starts out by thanking god for giving him an unconquerable soul. In the second he talks about how he will endure extreme amounts of pain but will never bow down to any one. In the third he speaks about the menace of time does not scare him and that you will find him unafraid. For the final stanza of Invictus, Henley speaks of how he is the "...master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul." (Henley, 15-16).

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By: William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,

Black as the pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll,

I am the master of my fate,

I am the captain of my soul.