{"id":4561,"date":"2018-10-24T08:37:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=4561"},"modified":"2018-10-24T08:37:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T13:37:00","slug":"pastoral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2018\/10\/24\/pastoral\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastoral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our poetry class, we are assigned to journal every single day. Some days, it&#8217;s free writing, and other days we have assignments. Recently, we had an assignment; randomly flip to a page of the dictionary, and write something inspired by the first word you see. My word was,\u00a0<em><strong>pastoral.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>There are a couple different meanings for the word,\u00a0<em><strong>pastoral<\/strong><\/em>, but the one I chose, was that it meant &#8220;peaceful\/innocent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The first thing that popped in my head, was music. I&#8217;ve noticed my music taste has been changing into a more conglomerate, coherent thing, rather than being a jumble of odd bits and bobs. It&#8217;s become more of soft, peaceful, &#8220;indie\/alternative pop&#8221; that is popular I guess? No idea, but still I&#8217;m pretty pleased with it right now. And that music to me is\u00a0<em><strong>pastoral.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here are some songs that are peaceful to me.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to listen to a playlist of all these songs compiled in order, I made one for the purpose of this blog!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/user\/cherokeetimelord\/playlist\/1JTFAWLGpoC5oGya9VfbGi%3Fsi%3D1Y3ixLOwT3ydZ0NVhoUd9Q\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;pretty girl&#8221; &#8211; Clairo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This song, despite having notes of a gloomier topic, has peaceful acoustics, that makes me feel content in a way. Ugh, I love it so much. It talks about the fondness of memories, and also talks about how love can make us fools. 10\/10 song<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Polaroid of you dancing in my room.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;when the party&#8217;s over&#8221; &#8211; billie eilish<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another sad bop. I have a knack for listening to sad, sad songs. There&#8217;s something about this song that just makes me f e e l, ya know? I interpreted the story as a girl who&#8217;s experiencing unrequited love from a person that keeps using her. While this all sounds so melancholy, I somehow get peacefulness from it, because the girl is aware of this fact, and has a very matter-of-fact tone. It&#8217;s weird how calm this song makes me feel. Don&#8217;t get me wrong though, it also has me cryin&#8217; in the club.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tore my shirt to stop you bleedin&#8217;, but nothin&#8217; ever stops you leavin&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Lemon Boy&#8221; &#8211; cavetown\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This song&#8217;s imagery makes me so happy. And that&#8217;s the tea. No, but in all seriousness this song is able to portray such a sweet, and interesting story, and it really resonates with me. In a peaceful way, that is.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s actually pretty easy being nice to a bitter boy like him. So, I got myself a citrus friend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;hong kong&#8221; &#8211; mxmtoon\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A nice imagery song as well. Makes me want to travel more, which is interesting because I&#8217;m a lil&#8217; bit of a homebody. I&#8217;ve always been the type to be scared of adventure, but this song breaks that. Maybe I&#8217;ll go to Hong Kong one of these days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;yellow cars, smoggy skies, neon lights attract your eyes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Dance, Baby!&#8221; &#8211; boy pablo\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This song has nostalgia for a memory I don&#8217;t have, and that&#8217;s something powerful that the artist has done. The vocals and vibe of this song remind me of the 80&#8217;s somehow? No idea, but boy pablo pulls this song together nicely. It&#8217;s also incredible how this is more of an upbeat vibe-y song, but it stills manages to invoke a serene feeling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m left alone, should have stayed at home, and searched how to date on Chrome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Cherry Cola&#8221; &#8211; Jon\u00a0 Kuwada<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The way the artist talks about the girl in this song with descriptive metaphors and similes makes my heart smile. It&#8217;s so sweet how highly he thinks of her, based on this song. Hearing how important this relationship is to the artist, is something that adds to the song&#8217;s peacefulness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No clouds in the sky, &#8217;cause she brings that sunshine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a wrap!! There are some songs that I find <strong><em>pastoral<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our poetry class, we are assigned to journal every single day. Some days, it&#8217;s free writing, and other days we have assignments. Recently, we had an assignment; randomly flip to a page of the dictionary, and write something inspired by the first word you see. My word was,\u00a0pastoral. There are a couple different meanings &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2018\/10\/24\/pastoral\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pastoral&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4561"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4611,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561\/revisions\/4611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}