Burn By Miranda Analysis

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"Burn" is a show tune composed by Lin-Manuel Miranda. He first revealed the very beginnings of the musical at a white house poetry reading. The show was the revealed to the public in the summer of 2015 and it's popularity skyrocketed. Other songs written by Lin-Manuel Miranda are: "It's Quiet Uptown," "How Far I'll Go" and "We Know the Way." "Burn" is written in first person point of view. The fourth stanza holds a couplet and an alliteration. "You and your words flooded my senses/ Your sentences left me defenceless" and "You built me palaces out of paragraphs."Is an example of alliteration with the repetition of the 'P' consonant sound. Repetition is used when the word "Burn" is repeated. Phillipa Soo alludes to the story of Icarus in the line "You have married an Icarus/ He has flown too close to the sun." In the song Lin paints a picture of the romantic hopes of Eliza as Alexander tears those dreams apart by publishing his own affair. You can just picture all of the beautiful hopes and dreams being burned with the hatred Alexander instilled in her. This can also be called imagery. The musical …show more content…

In a musical about Founding Fathers, Miranda has placed a pair of vividly imagined female characters, played by the dynamite performers Renée Elise Goldsberry and Phillipa Soo, with an assist from Jasmine Cephas Jones. The three actresses appear early in Act One, as the Schuyler sisters, Angelica, Eliza, and Peggy: daughters of Philip Schuyler, the Revolutionary War general and later U.S. senator from New York. In Miranda’s version, they look like society women in bustles but sound like a Destiny’s Child-esque R. & B. girl group. After sampling the newly written Declaration of Independence—“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal”—Angelica

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