Pub 5 - Comparing poems with music

When one you love falls down, you want nothing more than to be with them. You want them to get back up, want them to be awake in your presence. Poetry is a beautiful work of art, one that can always be relatable or about life itself. The poem “Succession” by Jeffrey Brown and “Poem” by Frank O’Hara both relate well with a rather recent song by Nicky Romero called “Let Me Feel”. These three works tend to use the theme of idealism, and have a tone of rather sadness.

Let Me Feel is an electric dance song produced by a famous DJ named Nicky Romero. I very much enjoy the music he makes because every song has some kind of story to it, not just a bunch of beats mixed together. This one song in specific is about a man fighting life to try and keep his sick beloved daughter alive. He does everything he can to make money for her medical bills, as long as he is always able to be with her. The song specifically states, “Let me breathe you without a sound It’s the only thing I’m waking up for now, up for now”. In doing everything he can to save his daughter, his last resort is fighting for money. In doing this, while his daughter is in the hospital she begins to have problems and as she unfortunately begins to pass away he father was getting beaten to death by his second competitor. The main point of this is that they both end up together even though it may be in the afterlife.

To continue, as per the information provided about the song “Let Me Feel”, a literary work that can be well related with it is the poem “Succession”. This work by Jeffrey Brown is about the death of his father. He drives back to his hometown because his flight back home was cancelled and he wanted to go bring back some childhood memories. His childhood was all spent with his father, learning how to ride a bike and other things. The thought about some things his father would say and do made him miss his father so much and in the end he states, “Can I, too, Disappear”. This poem relates to the song by Nicky Romero due to the fact of being together as one. This poem is the opposite people death wise to the song but it is still the same concept. Jeffrey would still do anything to be with his father.

Finally, another good literary work that relates to the song “Let Me Feel” is called “Poem” by Frank O’Hara. This poem is about a famous lady that everyone loved, Laura Turner who one day collapsed and was a big news headline. Nobody wanted this for her because of their love for her and wanted to get her back up. This poem relates to the song because the point of the song is that the father is working to get his daughter back up, and in the poem everyone in the city is working to get Laura Turner back up.

To sum up all the information from both the poem “Succession” by Jeffrey Brown and “Poem” by Frank O’Hara relate well with the song “Let Me Feel” by Nicky Romero. All of these works are relatable in that they all share more or less the same tone and theme. Seeing someone you love or that means very much to you go down is very difficult and you want to do nothing but help them back up.