The poem i chose to analyze is the song Dear God 2.0 by The Roots (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32Qr5oKKP-M). i think that the rap was talking about the problems in the world and problems telling God about them. First line says "Dear God, I'm trying hard to reach you" i saw this as the narrator trying to tell God about everything that is going on (as if He does not know, or will not acknowledge or help the situation) but without any luck.
In the second stanza, it reads "they said he's busy hold the line please, call me crazy, i thought maybe he could mind read". This proves my hypothesis that God is not listening, he's busy? Then the narrator says i thought maybe he could mind read. I took at as the narrator saying, God should be able to mind read, or at least that's what the narrator thought, but apparently not. People say when they are down "if God knows what is going wrong, why won't he help?" Well we cannot answer that question, but that is pretty much what the speaker in the poem is saying.
Then the song goes on talking about what is wrong with the world. "Acid rain, earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis". "Terrorist, crime sprees, assaults, and robberies". It seems the speaker has been thinking about all of this for a really long time, then says "we'll I've been thinkin' about and I've been breakin' it down without an answer" Without an answer. It is not easy to find out why bad stuff happens to us when we cannot contact "our maker".
Later in the song the speaker goes on to talk about himself asking God for forgiveness for not doing what he was supposed to. The next line is one of my favorites and one which i will elaborate on "Why is the world ugly when you made it in your image?" If God made the world, why is it so f***ed up? Because humans messed it up, maybe, but why does not God help us fix it? He is "our maker", right? Maybe. One can also say we made Him, just as we humans made buildings and computers. Humans also wrote the bible.
The original song is called Dear God by XTC (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlJwO664WLI) and it pretty much says that God is messed up because he won't help us, and that we made him up. The speaker in that song says he chooses not to believe in God or the Devil.
However in Dear God 2.0 the speaker wants help and forgiveness, but still believes in God.
In the second stanza, it reads "they said he's busy hold the line please, call me crazy, i thought maybe he could mind read". This proves my hypothesis that God is not listening, he's busy? Then the narrator says i thought maybe he could mind read. I took at as the narrator saying, God should be able to mind read, or at least that's what the narrator thought, but apparently not. People say when they are down "if God knows what is going wrong, why won't he help?" Well we cannot answer that question, but that is pretty much what the speaker in the poem is saying.
Then the song goes on talking about what is wrong with the world. "Acid rain, earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis". "Terrorist, crime sprees, assaults, and robberies". It seems the speaker has been thinking about all of this for a really long time, then says "we'll I've been thinkin' about and I've been breakin' it down without an answer" Without an answer. It is not easy to find out why bad stuff happens to us when we cannot contact "our maker".
Later in the song the speaker goes on to talk about himself asking God for forgiveness for not doing what he was supposed to. The next line is one of my favorites and one which i will elaborate on "Why is the world ugly when you made it in your image?" If God made the world, why is it so f***ed up? Because humans messed it up, maybe, but why does not God help us fix it? He is "our maker", right? Maybe. One can also say we made Him, just as we humans made buildings and computers. Humans also wrote the bible.
The original song is called Dear God by XTC (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlJwO664WLI) and it pretty much says that God is messed up because he won't help us, and that we made him up. The speaker in that song says he chooses not to believe in God or the Devil.
However in Dear God 2.0 the speaker wants help and forgiveness, but still believes in God.
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