FLET 205 Final Presentation Professor Natoli December 11, 2014

1. Relations between Elegy
and music in the 21st Century
Jessica Rawls
FLET 205
Professor Natoli
December 11, 2014

2. What is elegy? What does it tell us?
First Person Narrative
Erotic/Sexy
Romantic relationship between poetic persona
and another (usually a woman)

3. Propertius 2.1
The source of my many love compositions you ask,
the source of my book so soft upon the lips;
Neither the muse Calliope nor the god, Apollo sings to me.
It’s the girl: she is the whole of my inspiration.
Let her strut shimmering in Coan silk,
from that one gown will come a volume;
If I’ve spied her tresses disheveled, tumbling across her brow,
she is glad to walk proud to the “hymn to hair,”
If she has strummed a song on the lyre with ivory fingers,
I adore how skilled and delicate are her hands;
Or, when her eyes, demanding sleep, begin to droop,
I find a thousand new themes for my poetry;
Or if her tunic is ripped off and she wrestles with me in nude combat,
then we compose endless Iliads:
Whatever she does or whatever she says,
out of nothing gushes the greatest history.

4. Blake Shelton’s “My Eyes”
Those high heels with that sun dress
Turquoise heart hanging 'round your neck
Red lips like wine, wanna drink 'em up
And keep on drinkin' 'til you make me drunk
Tied up hair, wanna let it down
And just let the rest fall to the ground
You take beautiful to the max
Can't help myself when you look like that