Viva La Vida Vs. Violet Hill

The second essays were we had to compare two poems or two songs was a huge challenge for me. At first I didn’t know what to choose and after much thinking I came up with “Annabelle” and “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe. But after a lot of searching I decided to change my poems into two songs. “Viva la Vida” and “Violet Hill” by Coldplay were the two songs that I chose to do my second essay on. These two songs have a deep meaning to them. Violet hill talks about religion and war while Viva la Vida only talks about religion. It was interesting for me to research these songs because of the different interpretations that I found. Viva la Vida talks about religion and it mentions Juan the baptize and the act of cutting his head off. On the other hand, Violet hill talks about religion and war and as we all know those are two controversial topics. After all my research I found that religion and war do in someway connect to each other.