Homer+p+3

Background //His audience was very judgmental in the sense that they never believed that he wrote his own work. People looked at his long stanzas and thought that he could have never done any of it. The challenge was then for him to prove his work. By the time he was able to do so, there wasn’t very much controversy in the way he wrote. His poems and work were an important part of the Greek Culture due to the fact that his plays are known due to the fact that they were written in the famous Trojan War era. He was arguably the greatest poet of the ancient world. His work inspired many people in ways that were not seen before. There is no question to who he is related to automatically. There is many links to Ancient Greece within his works. “When we think of the blind poet Homer with relation to Ancient Greece, the first thing that comes to our mind is his beautiful epic poems Iliad and Odyssey.”// //Homer was an overall unknown man, he doesn’t have a set birthplace or even completely positive birthdate. Even without a positive birthplace he is said to belong to Greece just by birth.// //Some think that he was born on Chios Island and others believe he was living in Ionia.// //Dates of his birth range from 750 bc to 1200 bc. He lived though the era of the Trojan War in the earth 12th century.// //Homer’s work relates directly to his blindness and what is written is a reflection of how he lived his life in the unknown.// //Before he started writing he was a story teller and also a court singer.//

"Thomas Hardy." //- Biography and Works. Search Texts, Read Online. Discuss.// Online-Literature.com, 2000. Web. 30 Apr. 2013. Poems - Odyssey IIliad Homeric Hymns

Songs

**"Skyscraper Demi Lovato "**

[Verse 1:] Skies are crying, I am watching

Catching tear drops in my hands

Only silence as it's ending

Like we never had a chance

Do you have to make me feel like

There's nothing left of me?

//[Chorus:]//

You can take everything I have

You can break everything I am

Like I'm made of glass

Like I'm made of paper

Go on and try to tear me down

I will be rising from the ground

Like a skyscraper

Like a skyscraper

//[Verse 2:]//

As the smoke clears, I awaken

And untangle you from me

Would it make you feel better

To watch me while I bleed?

All my windows still are broken

But I'm standing on my feet

//[Chorus:]//

You can take everything I have

You can break everything I am

Like I'm made of glass

Like I'm made of paper

Go on and try to tear me down

I will be rising from the ground

Like a skyscraper

Like a skyscraper

//[Bridge:]//

Go run, run, run

I'm gonna stay right here,

Watch you disappear

Yeah, oh

Go run, run, run

Yeah, it's a long way down

But I am closer to the clouds up here

//[Chorus:]//

You can take everything I have

You can break everything I am

Like I'm made of glass

Like I'm made of paper

Oh Oh

Go on and try to tear me down

I will be rising from the ground

Like a skyscraper

Like a skyscraper

(Like a skyscraper)

Like a skyscraper

Like a skyscraper

**"A Drop In The Ocean"**

A drop in the ocean

A change in the weather

I was praying that you and me might end up together

It's like wishing for rain as I stand in the desert

But I'm holding you closer than most 'cause you are my heaven

I don't wanna waste the weekend

If you don't love me pretend

A few more hours then it's time to go

As my train rolls down the east coast I wonder how you keep warm

It's too late to cry

Too broken to move on

And still I can't let you be

Most nights I hardly sleep

Don't take what you don't need from me

It's just a drop in the ocean

A change in the weather

I was praying that you and me might end up together

Its like wishing for rain as I stand in the desert

But I'm holding you closer than most 'cause you are my heaven

Misplaced trust and old friends

Never counting regrets

By the grace of God I do not rest at all

New England as the leaves change

The last excuse that I'll claim

I was a boy who loved a women like a little girl

And still I cant let you be

Most nights I hardly sleep

Don't take what you don't need from me

It's just a drop in the ocean

A change in the weather

I was praying that you and me might end up together

It's like wishing for rain as I stand in the desert

But I'm holding you closer than most 'cause you are my

Heaven doesn't seem far away anymore

No

No

Heaven doesn't seem far away

Heaven doesn't seem far away anymore

No

No

Heaven doesn't seem far away

Oh

Oh

A drop in the ocean

A change in the weather

I was praying that you and me might end up together

It's like wishing for rain as I stand in the desert

But I'm holding you closer than most 'cause you are my heaven

You are my heaven **"Paradise"** When she was just a girl She expected the world But it flew away from her reach So she ran away in her sleep Dreamed of para- para- paradise Para- para- paradise Para- para- paradise Every time she closed her eyes Whoa-oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh When she was just a girl She expected the world But it flew away from her reach And the bullets catch in her teeth Life goes on   It gets so heavy The wheel breaks the butterfly Every tear, a waterfall In the night, the stormy night She closed her eyes In the night, the stormy night Away she'd fly. And dreamed of para- para- paradise Para- para- paradise Para- para- paradise Whoa-oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh She dreamed of para- para- paradise Para- para- paradise Para- para- paradise Whoa-oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh. La la la La   La la la    So lying underneath those stormy skies. She said oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh. I know the sun must set to rise. This could be para- para- paradise Para- para- paradise This could be para- para- paradise Whoa-oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh. This could be para- para- paradise Para- para- paradise Could be para- para- paradise Whoa-oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh. This could be para- para- paradise Para- para- paradise Could be para- para- paradise Whoa-oh-oh oh-oooh oh-oh-oh. Oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo Oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo, oo-oo-oo Works IIliad and the Odyssey and Homeric Hymns. Comparisons - Skyscraper and The Odyssey. IIliad and A Drop in the Ocean. Paradise and Homeric Hymns.