Comparing Fred Astaire's Song 'Night And Day'
The song night and day is a beautiful poetry which was written by Cole porter for the 1932 musical play Gay Divorcee. This song is regarded as one of the Porter's most popular contribution to the Great American Songbook. This song holds a noticeable distinction that it has been recorded by dozens of artists. The song had such an association with Porter, that Hollywood first filmed porter life story in 1946, was entitled Night and Day. This song is so widely listened and used for the stage play that there are many examples regarding its use around the entertainment industry. Fred Astaire is the first person who introduced "Night and Day" on stage, and it went on to prove that the Fred Astaire recording of the song was a Number one hit at that time. What makes the song such an extraordinary popular is all the required ingredients such as the marvelous lyrics which add up the basic ingredients of the poetry to make it a masterpiece. This song and its lyrics are an absolute blend of rhythm and rhyme to make it a
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Here he answers the questions to himself why is he in such state of mind. This is the place where he has used the imagery for the purposeful communication that the thoughts of the loved one are always encircling him regardless of the place he is in. the poet has used the diction in the 2nd and third stanza as he goes long by counting out all the surrounding environments. The poetry is marvelous as all the surroundings namely “roaring traffic's boom” and also “silence of my lonely room” is used so as to make the reader aware about the inevitable love that the poet feels deep inside the heart. Many poetic expressions are visible as tick, tick, tock o clock then beat of the tom tom then drip, drip of the rain drops in summer showers are all poetry used as symbolic expression of inner love whispering
Here he answers the questions to himself why is he in such state of mind. This is the place where he has used the imagery for the purposeful communication that the thoughts of the loved one are always encircling him regardless of the place he is in. the poet has used the diction in the 2nd and third stanza as he goes long by counting out all the surrounding environments. The poetry is marvelous as all the surroundings namely “roaring traffic's boom” and also “silence of my lonely room” is used so as to make the reader aware about the inevitable love that the poet feels deep inside the heart. Many poetic expressions are visible as tick, tick, tock o clock then beat of the tom tom then drip, drip of the rain drops in summer showers are all poetry used as symbolic expression of inner love whispering