My Featured Song

Change by Taylor Swift

"Change"

And it’s a sad picture, the final blow hits you
Somebody else gets what you wanted again and
You know it’s all the same, another time and place
Repeating history and you’re getting sick of it
But I believe in whatever you do
And I’ll do anything to see it through

Because these things will change
Can you feel it now?
These walls that they put up to hold us back will fall down
This revolution, the time will come
For us to finally win
And we’ll sing hallelujah, we’ll sing hallelujah

So we’ve been outnumbered
Raided and now cornered
It’s hard to fight when the fight ain’t fair
We’re getting stronger now
Find things they never found
They might be bigger
But we’re faster and never scared
You can walk away, say we don’t need this
But there’s something in your eyes
Says we can beat this

Because these things will change
Can you feel it now?
These walls that they put up to hold us back will fall down
This revolution, the time will come
For us to finally win
And we’ll sing hallelujah, well sing hallelujah

Tonight we stand, get off our knees
Fight for what we’ve worked for all these years
And the battle was long, it’s the fight of our lives
But we’ll stand up champions tonight

It was the night things changed
Can you see it now?
These walls that they put up to hold us back fell down
It’s a revolution, throw your hands up
Cause we never gave in
And we sang hallelujah, we sang hallelujah
Hallelujah

I. About the Song

" Change " is a song performed by American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift.The song was released on August 8, 2008, with all proceeds being donated to the United States Olympic team.The track was later chosen as one of the themes for the 2008 Summer Olympics and was included on the AT&T Team USA Soundtrack , which was released August 7, 2008. [1] The song was later included on Swift's second studio album Fearless , which was released in November 2008. "Change" is musically pop rock and uses divergent string instruments.

Works Cited （参考文献）

"Change (Taylor Swift Song)." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 01 Nov. 2016.

II. About the Songwriter: Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift was born on December 13th, 1989 in Pennsylvania, America. She spent the early years of her life on a Christmas tree farm in Cumru Township, Pennsylvania. When she was 9 years old, her family rent a house in the suburbs of Wyomissing in Pennsylvania and she spent the years from elementary school to high school there. At that time, she started being interested in musical, and she appeared on the theatrical company, "Bye Bye Birdie" and so on. And then, she made an expedition regularly to Broadway, and she took lessons in singing and acting. She sang a song in public for the first time when she was 10 years old. Since then, she began to write songs. 

Works Cited （参考文献）

"Change (Taylor Swift Song)." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 09 Nov. 2016.

IV. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - Song chorus

• 定義: the section of a song that is repeated 
• 例:Because these things will change
  Can you feel it now?
  These walls that they put up to hold us back will fall down
  This revolution, the time will come
  For us to finally win
  And we’ll sing hallelujah, well sing hallelujah
• 略: Chorus of this song is sang don not

B. Reaction Point - theme

• 定義: the central idea of a song's lyrics
• 例:Because these things will change
• 略:This song's theme is "the things will be change".

C. Reaction Point - lead vocal

• 定義: the main singer in a song recording
• 例: The main singer is Taylor Swift.
• 略: She sung this song very strongly.

D. My General Opinion
I like this song very much! But, I didn't know this song was written for United State Olympic team in 2008 until I research this song. This song's lyric is really good! I can get courage when I listened this song.

My Futured Poem

Manatee/Humanity

Text Version

the manatee is found in shallow slow-moving rivers
the manatee moves in estuaries moves in saltwater bays
the manatee in moving moves gently 
the manatee is to be found in canals & coastal areas
the manatee is a migratory animal
the manatee is gentle & slow-moving
the manatee moves in slow-moving rivers slowly
the manatee is completely herbivorous
the West Indian manatee has no natural enemies
the manatee has no natural enemies but unnatural man
the manatee is constantly threatened by man unnaturally
man with his boats & plastic & attitude
the manatee often drowns in canal locks of man
man who makes no concession to manatee
the manatee dies in flood control structures
man who makes no concession to manatee 
nor cares of manatee life manatee fortune
the manatee dies in collision with watercraft
man who does not protect the manatee
what steward of the earth is this unnatural man
man who makes no concession to manatee
the manatee dies with the ingestion of fishhooks
man who unnaturally makes no concession 
the manatee dies from litter & monofilament lines
man who is rank in attitude has no use for manatee
the manatee dies entrapped in crab trap lines
the manatee dies from loss of habitat claimed by man
the manatee is maimed by man, the manatee could be aided by man
man o aid the manatee man come to the manatee heart
a manatee calf is born every 2-5 years
a manatee gestates for a year in the manatee womb
8,400 miles of tidal waters could be for the manatee 
11,000 miles of rivers & streams could be for the manatee
10,000 miles of canals would they all be for the manatee
the manatee has more gray matter in the brain than man
the manatee is perhaps thinking archivally deeper than man
ancient days of manatee so many thousands of years
manatee mind, what is the mind of manatee 
the manatee has no natural enemies
the manatee is completely herbivorous 
the metabolism of the manatee is slow, moves slowly
the manatee moves in estuaries, moves in saltwater bays

Video Version

I. About the Poem

"Mantee/Humanity" was composed by Anne Waldman in 2009.
Anne Waldman's new investigative hybrid-poem explores the nuances of inter-species communication and compassion. It draws on animal lore, animal encounters (with grey wolf and manatee), dreams, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and Buddhist ritual to render a text of remarkable sympathy, reciprocity, and power. The poem asks questions as well as urges further engagement with the endangered (including our human selves). Part performance litany, part survival kit, part worried mammalian soundings, Waldman explores, as ever, what it means to inhabit our condition through language and imagination inside a wheel of time.This is the mature work of a philosophical field poet with a shamanic metabolism.

Works Cited （参考文献）
Waldman, Anne. "Manatee/Humanity." Goodreads. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Oct. 2016.

<http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6011611-manatee-humanity>

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II. About the Author

Anne Waldman was born in Millville, New Jersey. She was raised on MacDougal Street in New York City's Greenwich Village, and received her B.A. from Bennington College in 1966. During the 1960s, Waldman became part of the East Coast poetry scene, in part through her engagement with the poets and artists loosely termed the Second Generation of the New York School. Waldman has been a fervent activist for social change. In the 1970s, she was involved with the Rocky Flats Truth Force, an organization opposed to the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons facility ten miles to the south of Boulder, Colorado. With Daniel Ellsberg and Allen Ginsberg, she was arrested for protesting outside of the site. She has been a vocal proponent for feminist, environmental, and human rights causes; an active participant in Poets Against the War; and she has helped organize protests in New York and Washington, D.C.

Works Cited （参考文献）

 "Anne Waldman." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 18 Oct. 2016.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Waldman>

Ⅲ. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point -Refrain(反復)

• 定義：Refrain is a type of repetition, but it is somewhat different from repetition. Refrain is repetition of usually a line, a phrase, two or three lines, or even words in a poem but repetition, on the other hand, involves repetition of words, phrases, syllables, or even sounds in a full piece. Another difference is that a refrain in a poem may appear at the end of a stanza; however, this recurrence of words and phrases in repetition may occur in any line of stanza. Villanelle, on the contrary, is a poetic form consisting of nineteen lines that uses refrain in its first and third lines.

• 例：the manatee is found in shallow slow-moving rivers

the manatee moves in estuaries moves in saltwater bays the manatee in moving moves gently the manatee is to be found in canals & coastal areas
the manatee is a migratory animal

• 略 By refraining same form, it can appeal imporｔance 

B. Reaction Point - theme

• 定義: the central idea of a song's lyrics
• 例: the manatee is found in shallow slow-moving rivers                                                        the manatee in moving moves gently                                                                                the manatee moves in estuaries moves in saltwater bays
• 略: This poem's theme is manatee.

C. Reaction Point - 呼びかけ

• 定義
• 例
• 略

D. My General Opinion
I like this poem. This poem is refrained same form. Accordingly, she appeals how much manatee important.

Self Introduction

Hello.

My name is Haruka Sato. I'm Kyoritsu Women's University student.
I study English literature. I like listening to music and playing the guitar. I belong to Folk Song Club. I play YUI, Silent Siren, K-on etc. in a band.

Thank you.