" A Rush Of Blood To The Head" by Coldplay

He said I'm gonna buy this place and burn it down
Yeah I'm gonna put it six feet underground
He said I'm gonna buy this place and see it fall
Stand here beside my baby in the crumbling walls
Said I'm gonna buy this place and start a fire
Stand here until I fill all your heart's desires
'Cause I'm gonna buy this place and see it burn
And do back the things it did to you in return


He said I'm gonna buy a gun and start a war
If you can tell me something worth fighting for
And I'm gonna buy this place, that's what I said
Blame it upon a rush of blood to the head, to the head

Honey, all the movements you're starting to make
See me crumble and fall on my face
And I know the mistakes that I made
See it all disappear without trace
And they call as they beckon you on
They said start as you mean to go on

He said I'm gonna buy this place and see it go
Stand here beside my baby, watch the orange glow
'Cause some'll laugh and some just sit and cry
But you just sit down there and you wonder why
So I'm gonna buy a gun and start a war
If you can tell me something worth fighting for
And I'm gonna buy this place, that's what I said
Blame it upon a rush of blood to the head, to the head

Honey, all the movements you're starting to make
See me crumble and fall on my face
And I know the mistakes that I made
See it all disappear without trace
And they call as they beckon you on
They say start as you mean to go on
Start as you mean to go on, start as you mean to go on

So meet me by the bridge, yeah meet me on the lane
When am I gonna see that pretty face again
Oh meet me on the road, yeah meet me where I said
Blame it all upon
A rush of blood to the head

The phrase " A rush of blood to the head" in UK is another way of saying, "spontaneously". I think this song is about the damage that can be done when you're in a rage of anger without thinking clearly. I also think that it is ment to show our civilization from afar.  It takes an outsider's approach to our society and paints a kind of dark picture of rubble and ashes and shows the human nature: "So I'm gonna buy a gun and start a war
If you can tell me something worth fighting for". It's that every act that has been done in the history has all started from a thought: "Blame it upon a rush of blood to the head". I'm sure that the lyrics in this song can be understood in many different ways, and I think that's the beauty of Coldplay's lyrics. I liked this song because the sound and the lyrics are powerful and calming, but sinister as the same time.

"Sick" by Shel Silverstein

"I cannot go to school today,"

Said little Peggy Ann McKay,

"I have the measles and the mumps,

A gash, a rash, and purple bumps.

My mouth is wet, my throat is dry,

I'm going blind in my right eye.

My tonsils are as big as rocks,

I've counted sixteen chicken pox

And there's one more--that's seventeen,

And don't you think my face looks green?

My leg is cut, my eyes are blue--

It might be instamatic flu.

I cough and sneeze and gasp and choke,

I'm sure that my left leg is broke--

My hip hurts when I move my chin,

My belly button's caving in,

My back is wrenched, my ankle's sprained,

My 'pendix pains each time it rains.

My nose is cold, my toes are numb,

I have a sliver in my thumb.

My neck is stiff, my voice is weak,

I hardly whisper when I speak.

My tongue is filling up my mouth,

I think my hair is falling out.

My elbow's bent, my spine ain't straight,

My temperature is one-o-eight.

My brain is shrunk, I cannot hear,

There is a hole inside my ear.

I have a hangnail, and my heart is--what?

What's that? What's that you say?

You say today is---Saturday?

G'bye, I'm going out to play!"

I really liked this because even though I'm 17 (almost 18), I can still relate to this poem. This may be a shocker to many of you, but school isn't exactly my favorite place to be. As I was reading this poem, I noticed that I've used some of these excuses to try and get out of school. My parents never fall for anything and usually just tell me to suck it up and get to school. However if I'm feeling under the weather and I catch them in particularly good moods, I can sometimes stay home! This is a rare occurrence but it when it does happen, it's amazing. The best feeling in the world to me is waking up and then finding out that school is canceled so I can go right back to bed. Coming in close second would be waking up thinking it's a weekday when it's really a Saturday or Sunday! Preferably when it's a Saturday because then I don't have to think about school the next day. I remember one time during winter, Rishin woke me up to tell me that I could go back to sleep because it was a snow day. Turns out, it was not a snow day. I was furious that day. So in conclusion, Shel Silverstein's poetry is always appealing to me because I can relate to it no matter how old I am. 

"This Poem" by Donald Justice

This poem is not addressed to you.
You may come into it briefly,
But no one will find you here, no one.
You will have changed before the poem will.

Even while you sit there, unmovable,
You have begun to vanish. And it does no matter.
The poem will go on without you.
It has the spurious glamor of certain voids.

It is not sad, really, only empty.
Once perhaps it was sad, no one knows why.
It prefers to remember nothing.
Nostalgias were peeled from it long ago.

Your type of beauty has no place here.
Night is the sky over this poem.
It is too black for stars.
And do not look for any illumination.

You neither can nor should understand what it means.
Listen, it comes with out guitar,
Neither in rags nor any purple fashion.
And there is nothing in it to comfort you.

Close your eyes, yawn. It will be over soon.
You will forge the poem, but not before
It has forgotten you. And it does not matter.
It has been most beautiful in its erasures.

O bleached mirrors! Oceans of the drowned!
Nor is one silence equal to another.
And it does not matter what you think.
This poem is not addressed to you.

I liked this poem because after I was through reading it, I had to sit there and think about what I actually read. The poem makes sense, but there's really no deep meaning to it, and it's not really about anything, which I thought was great. I think it's weird that there's no rhyme scheme in this poem. I tried to count the syllables in the lines but I couldn't find any patterns. I really like this poem, because the author is kind of saying " It doesn't matter what you think about this poem, because it has nothing to do with you". It's hard to read this poem without laughing, and I like poetry like that.

" Never Try to Trick Me With a Kiss" by Sylvia Plath

Never try to trick me with a kiss
Pretending that the birds are here to stay;
The dying man will scoff and scorn at this.

A stone can masquerade where no heart is
And virgins rise where lustful Venus lay:
Never try to trick me with a kiss.

Our noble doctor claims the pain is his,
While stricken patients let him have his say;
The dying man will scoff and scorn at this.

Each virile bachelor dreads paralysis,
The old maid in the gable cries all day:
Never try to trick me with a kiss.

The suave eternal serpents promise bliss
To mortal children longing to be gay;
The dying man will scoff and scorn at this.

Sooner or later something goes amiss;
The singing birds pack up and fly away;
So never try to trick me with a kiss:
The dying man will scoff and scorn at this.

I picked this poem because I've always wanted to read something by Sylvia Plath. Her life and her suicide intrigue me and so I picked this poem. She supposedly stuck her head in the oven until she suffocated.

Surprisingly, this poem wasn't depressing at all, which is what I expected coming from an author like Sylvia Plath. I think that she is trying to convey that she cannot be tempted, and seductions or "kisses" cannot trick her. I'm not sure if she is talking about a guy trying to seduce her, or just any temptation in general, but it's like she knows that she is being tricked. My favorite line was  "A stone can masquerade where no heart is" meaning that appearances can be very deceiving, but they still can't trick her because she knows what's up.