Emotional, Soft, Memories
Turning it down low
Bobbling your head very slow
Feeling the beat
It’s getting hard to see
Closing my eyes
Thinking, “Was he putting on a disguise”
This song got me thinking
Should I still see him
It’s just so Emotional, Soft, Memories
The song’s almost over
The music is going lower
Still thinking hard
This song is killing me
I don’t love him
Just have strong feelings for him
Just got a phone call, “He is back with her”
The song is over
EMOTIONAL, SOFT, MEMORIES
Shanae’ Moore
When I first heard about this assignment I was not really sure what I wanted to compare to “The Stream of Consciousness” by William James. At first I thought about finding a picture or a piece of artwork that represented “The Stream of Consciousness.” I realized that what I really wanted to use was a short story or a poem. As I was surfing the internet I stumbled on this poem by Shanae’ Moore that really caught my attention. The poem titled “Emotional, Soft, Memories” captures what William James describes as “The Stream of Consciousness.” The state of consciousness is like a stream. We have infinite thoughts that are always in a constant state of change. We also have different feelings and emotions attatched to these thoughts.
The poem opens by talking about how this girl is constantly thinking about this guy. She cannot get the thought of this guy out of her head. Not only does she sense her surroundings, but she feels them as well. The song that is played reminds her of him to the point that the song is unbearable to listen to. She is wrapped up in a myriad of emotions and is in perpetual thought. This brings up the concetps of the subjective and the objective. The noise and the music that she is listening to is objective because it can be proven by fact. The feelings that she is having when she is listening to the song is subjective because that is her own feelings toward the song that no one else can feel. Someone else might listen to the same song and have a completely different feeling towards it.