The Romantic Eminem

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our troops home, C’mon, just”(Mosh lyrics) he expresses his feelings and political views towards George w. Bush and says how he feels about the war. “No more blood for oil, we got our own battles on our own soil”(Mosh lyrics) is also relating to how he feels about the war in Afghanistan, referring to the war over oil and saying that there are too many problems in our own country to be helping someone else. In romantic writing and poetry, the writer gives voice to inner feelings about sexuality. This quality is also heard in Eminem’s lyrics, in his song Medicine Ball he tells us his feelings on gay sex, he says that is wrong and is poking fun at how people could even want this (MedicineBall). He mentions his feelings of gay sex and how he feels it is wrong in a number of his songs. Eminem’s influences come past literature. The major characteristics of romanticism is looking at government and political problems, expressing feelings toward gays and expressing that sex is between a man ...

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him down because of his lyrical content. In the song “without me” he sings, “So the FCC won’t let me be or let me be me, so let me see, they try to shut me down on MTV…”(WithoutMe) showing how the government is trying to regulate what we listen to. In the song “The Way I Am” it say “oh its his lyrical content, the song Guilty Conscience”, (TheWayIAM) he is imitating a parent talking to another parent about how they will not let their children listen to his music even if the kid wants to. Eminem relates himself to many different groups of people, white, black, father, daughter, rich, poor, depresses, drug addict, and angry at the world. Like William Blake, Eminem also has strong feelings ...

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