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There’s something fun about mixing elements from the past with those of the present. In Cassandra Gillig’s, “Put me in Charge of Poetry Magazine and I will Fuck this Country Up” (2013), She adds popular music as the background to poetry. In doing this, she made the poetry reading sound as though it could have be the lyrics to the songs. This is all posted on the internet to be found and shared with everyone, remediating the songs and poems into each other making it one piece, which is pretty awesome. Sylvia Plath’s Poem with “Love the Way you Lie,” as the background was especially fun because I love that poem. The intensity of the music in this song amplified the intensity of the words and lines, making the poem that much more meaningful to me. In Plath’s poem, she is addressing her father and the hurt he has caused her. She uses Holocaust imagery to make her point, and describes him as a Nazi. Similar to Rhianna’s song, she is addressing someone who causes pain to people who loved him. The similarities between the meaning behind Rhianna’s song and Plath’s poem make for an interesting and fitting remix of the two works that are able to complement one another.