How to Use Metaphor in Songwriting and Creative Writing

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    In this free online writing tutorial, Berklee College of Music professor and Berklee Online instructor Caroline Harvey offers advice for using metaphor in your songwriting and creative writing.
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    About Caroline Harvey
    Caroline Harvey is an assistant professor in the Liberal Arts department at Berklee College of Music, in addition to being a writer, performer, and somatic therapist. She teaches and performs poetry nationwide, and is the creator of two original voice curricula, Free Your Voice™ and Embodied Poetics™. She was featured in two documentaries and appeared on Season 5 of HBO's Def Poetry. A past member and coach of multiple Poetry Slam Teams, Harvey has been a part of victories on both national and regional stages. Most recently, she helped the Berklee College of Music Slam Team win the "Spirit of Slam" award at the 2010 Collegiate National Poetry Slam. She has performed with Alicia Keys, Mos Def, John Legend, Reggie Gibson, Joshua Bennett, Donna De Lory, and others, and is honored to have been featured at schools and organizations such as YouthSpeaks, The Esalen Institute, Bristol Community College, Northeastern University, University of California at Berkeley, and University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA).
    Harvey was awarded a BFA in Theater from Boston University where she graduated Summa Cum Laude and won the Dean's Award for Academic Excellence. Her stage directorial debut dealt with the work of poet Anne Sexton and was chosen for review by the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. She later earned a Master's degree in Dance from UCLA's Department of World Arts and Cultures. Harvey's writing, which explores ideas of the sacred and tracks her belief that even the fiercest traumas contain within them the capacity for profound healing and beauty, has been published in various literary journals and anthologies including the 2005 National Poetry Slam Anthology High Desert Voices and the Harvard publication The Charles River Review. She is currently working on a new collection of poems based on the women Salvador Dali painted and a book about her most recent travels in Asia and Central America.

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  • @ScarTrakk
    @ScarTrakk 11 років тому +13

    Great video, loved the way you explained the topic well, the meaphors by Pat are very creative.

  • @PiusXulu
    @PiusXulu 2 роки тому +2

    WOW!!! Loved the examples. Made it look easy. Thank you so much.

  • @VW.907
    @VW.907 2 роки тому +2

    I like it! Great idea, to get the lyrical juices flowing.

  • @producermind9030
    @producermind9030 5 місяців тому

    This video is absolutely amazing. Thanks for sharing!

  • @madbugger69
    @madbugger69 3 роки тому +5

    What a beautiful coach and instructor ❤️❤️❤️

  • @shannamarie9408
    @shannamarie9408 3 роки тому +6

    This was great description.

  • @swinenorth77
    @swinenorth77 12 років тому +4

    "with an iron clad fist, i wake up, french kiss the morning" JBJ
    poped into my head as i watched

    • @IMMASICKKKFUCK
      @IMMASICKKKFUCK 4 роки тому

      okkay

    • @d-rex6846
      @d-rex6846 4 роки тому

      Don’t French kiss the mourning, pat them on the back and give them a hug 🤗 lol

  • @Nick-qj7ym
    @Nick-qj7ym 3 роки тому +2

    Thank you! This helped.

  • @ApexFrontier
    @ApexFrontier 7 років тому +3

    Dude when he said let's do another metaphor I thought the ocean and a relationship and she used the ocean! Mind blown 💥

  • @tomquinn2773
    @tomquinn2773 7 років тому +10

    fish in the sun from the cyclone
    It came from the ocean and it found a home
    God must have given me a happy sole
    because She waits for me to smile and let the dankness go

  • @sjinvestors250
    @sjinvestors250 Рік тому +2

    What’s the name of the pat book

  • @bloomseason583
    @bloomseason583 3 роки тому +6

    How many can catch the depth of this on a spiritual level?

    • @oilinmyface787
      @oilinmyface787 3 роки тому

      Please explains it to me 😅

    • @bloomseason583
      @bloomseason583 3 роки тому

      @@oilinmyface787 I shouldn’t have even commented lol 😂

    • @oilinmyface787
      @oilinmyface787 3 роки тому

      @@bloomseason583 oh come on, now I'm more than curious 😁 you could write me a secret email or message somewhere 😉

    • @whatabouttheearth
      @whatabouttheearth 9 місяців тому

      😂 her first metaphor for love was "gamble". What 12 year old writing a crush poem hasn't done that...since the invention of gambling?
      Kenny Rodgers gets a pass

  • @ryanpendley1826
    @ryanpendley1826 Рік тому +3

    Twilight rain
    Holy God
    Please stay
    Don't forsake me today
    As I'm stuck in this drain
    We're worlds apart
    Deciphering your art
    Mother nature in a drought
    In the beginning was your word
    Beating on your chest with clout
    While I sit here and pout
    What's in your plan
    Since the foundation of your nailed scarred hand
    Considering my sins? How?
    Am I Eve?
    Am I Adam?
    The Tree
    Or the talking serpent
    In between?
    Wise fool times 3
    Sometimes I'm an atheist as you can see
    Yelling to the wind that's unseen
    How am I supposed to know your dimension
    You gave me theses set of eyes that can barely see
    Anyhow I just don't know what to say Lord
    I miss you
    I'm struggling
    Didn't you know me?
    Wasn't I on your mind
    Seems so much better when I was a kid
    Time grew to fast as I'm catching this rain in a cup
    But I messed up
    I fell from your grace you say
    Carrying that cross you say
    You did it for me you say
    But I don't understand the message today
    I'm to old for this Lord
    I need that child like faith
    Don't you remember me?
    I'm not a murderer like Cain
    Don't you hear our blood running through Our veins?
    what does it say?
    Here's that cup of rain
    I'm on the other side of this bow,
    Today
    It's my tears as I pray
    Writer
    Ryan K Pendley

  • @nathanielgibbons6671
    @nathanielgibbons6671 7 років тому +2

    Awesome thanks you

  • @brianolson_music
    @brianolson_music 2 роки тому +4

    Great video, thank you for the amazing content. Very well articulated. She is a Great teacher, and speaker. I was captivated - that says a lot for me and my a.d.d . Lol. No joke really. I’d love to chat with her anytime 👍

  • @kevinjoseph517
    @kevinjoseph517 Рік тому +1

    whats the cost of an online class at berklee?

    • @Berklee_Online
      @Berklee_Online  Рік тому

      Thanks for your question! The undergraduate courses cost $1,545 for 3-credit tuition or $1,290 for non-credit tuition, and the graduate courses cost $2,817 for 3-credit tuition or $2,615 for non-credit tuition.

  • @jamesking5075
    @jamesking5075 8 років тому +4

    what book by Pat Patterson is she talking about ?

    • @manualvarado2212
      @manualvarado2212 7 років тому +2

      Writing better lyrics for sure.
      There's a free course in coursera with the same name, given by Mr. Pat.

    • @milkyfernandez5505
      @milkyfernandez5505 5 років тому +1

      Book is actually Songwriting Without Boundaries.

  • @omkarmarchande5333
    @omkarmarchande5333 5 років тому +1

    Amazing tip 😀

  • @Quintopia1
    @Quintopia1 2 роки тому +1

    phenomenal

  • @jessepeters9775
    @jessepeters9775 9 років тому +6

    My flows a tidal wave like I angered the gods. Loves a gamble like a vegas trip. JXXL

  • @tretheband1818
    @tretheband1818 2 роки тому +5

    I feel dumber

  • @bluesyace9564
    @bluesyace9564 4 роки тому +7

    so basically, everything piece of lyrical wisdom actually comes from Pat Pattinson

  • @deannecaliforniamusic
    @deannecaliforniamusic Рік тому

    Pop quiz, "What does an angry God do?" :)

  • @belle1199
    @belle1199 6 років тому +5

    I was following well until she entered into topic of omniscience.. how is being all-knowing angry? haha

    • @romeod7549
      @romeod7549 3 роки тому +3

      If you were all-knowing and you saw what was happeining on this little planet in this corner of the galaxy you'd be angry too

    • @bloomseason583
      @bloomseason583 3 роки тому +1

      @@romeod7549 yo that’s a great perspective

  • @whatabouttheearth
    @whatabouttheearth 9 місяців тому

    😂 is that kindergarten shit really the first metaphor she chose?
    NO STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN UNLESS YOU'RE KENNY RODGERS!
    Cmon, this is Berklee.

  • @المؤسسة-ق3ش
    @المؤسسة-ق3ش 7 років тому +10

    lol she did not talk about metaphors, it was similies.

    • @chcknpie04
      @chcknpie04 4 роки тому +6

      Yeah, I was actually hoping she would elucidate on how we are taught that was wrong.

    • @veryrandomperson5739
      @veryrandomperson5739 3 роки тому +1

      u felt a bit of personification as well

  • @nyacoustics8373
    @nyacoustics8373 4 роки тому +2

    so how many grammys has she won with all this deep song writing insight?

    • @bluesyace9564
      @bluesyace9564 4 роки тому +16

      idk but this insight has certainly helped someone win 7 grammys
      oh wait, but those songs that won weren't exactly lyrically best from the artist, it was actually pretty sub par compared the artitst's normal work, why is that?
      Because the grammy doesn't give a crap about good songwriting, it cares about hits, it cares about the charts, which necessarily isn't a bad thing but my point here is that grammy doesn't scale anyone's musical abilities, its scales their ability to know their audience and make the most easily digestible, sing along music, not songs with complexity, the ones that have deep meanings in lyrics, the lyrics should be easily processed by any average listener in a hit.

    • @whatabouttheearth
      @whatabouttheearth 9 місяців тому

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @piotr803
    @piotr803 9 років тому +1

    Disagree. Your definition of collision implies juxtaposition.

    • @callumbrady88
      @callumbrady88 7 років тому +13

      She isn't comparing/contrasting Las Vegas and love. She is using the stereotypical/concepts of Las Vegas to explain/characterise her love. If the theme was 'I found love in Las Vegas' and spent the song talking about how unbelievable it was to find love in a place like las vegas, then you'd call it juxtaposition.