Shall I Compare Thee to a Pop Song?

Shorecrest Eighth graders recently completed an introductory poetry unit that invited them to compare pop music love songs to classic poetry love sonnets. Sonnets are traditionally addressed to imaginary or idealized women by poets who are obsessed with them. As an alternative assessment, the students wrote sonnets addressed to inanimate objects with which they are obsessed, called "The Object of My Affections." The poems were "published" in the classroom.

Take a listen and see if you can find the literary devices in Gym Class Heroes' "Stereo Hearts" featuring Adam Levine, such as metaphor, simile, personification and hyperbole.