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I choose the song "Sweet Dreams" by Beyonce Knowles. The song touches on the base of a young woman who has strong feelings for a man feels as if she in a dream or possibly an inescapable nightmare . The feeling are so strong in this dream that she does not want to exit this dream, but remain in it forever. Throughout the song she express several ways of binding them together, such as tattooing his name on her heart, so even if she wakes up and forgets him, death would not be able to separate them. I choose this song because it realy shows the depth of true love and how it can impacts the way someone feels and thinks on even a base level such as not wanting to come out of a dream, or the drastic measure on would take to hold a person close to them forever.

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My experience reading this poem along with the class versus alone was very different. At first i did not have a clear comprehension of the poem, but after reviewing it and hearing many different opinions, I was able to better understand it. The poem isn't really happy nor is it overly dark in nature. The bottom theme does hint at a sad childhood and the only mention of a grandfather supports the thought that there are no parent.

 My original thoughts of the creature described in the first stanza, was it was some kind of secret that the subject wanted to forget. My opinion to that effect has not changed much, but the nature and purpose of the creature has. It is not a secret but a memory of sad and past times. The subject of the poem attempts to escape the memory by leaving the setting in which it occurred, but that only causes the physical manifestation of the memory to follow them. It goes as far to share a bed in the dark but hides from the light.

I feel that this poem has many different interpretations that only get more and more complex based off how the audience handles the first two stanzas. One could imagine that the creature is a hideous but loyal imaginary friend. others a mental scar or blemish that the subject wishes to rid themselves of. The in-ability to destroy this memory caused even deep problems.

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