The song “Snuff” is a personal song about the writer, Corey Taylor’s, divorce. It is all about how his wife always laid all her problems on him, and never listened to his.This song should be considered a poem, for it includes the following similarities to that of a traditional poem: Poetic elements, Rhyming patterns, and many others. This song uses quite a few of poetic elements. It mainly uses metaphors and similes. For example, the song says “The air around me still feels like a cage.” This song also uses several cases of religious symbolism and other poetic elements throughout it. This song has really weird rhyming patterns. However, they really help the flow of the song and emphasize certain parts. For example, the abruptness of
In the first stanza, first line; I saw two trees embracing, this means that there is a couple that is in love. In the second and third line we see that the male is weaker “one leaned on the other, as if to throw her down” and in the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh line we notice that the female has the strength, willpower and is dominating. In the second stanza, line one, two and three we see that the female being dominant makes the male feel broken and intimidated. In line four “the most wind-warped, you could see”, hear we see that there is a major problem between the two.
The song does have good rhyme scheme, which is a very important poetic element. Zac Brown band writes, “Well I was raised up beneath the shade of a Georgia Pine / and that's home you know / sweet tea, pecan pie, and homemade wine, where the peaches grow…” (5-7). Every other line rhymes with the previous. This is a good poetic element to have, considering rhyme is commonly related to many great songs and poems.
Hughes starts his poem by identifying the victims of the story. Hughes does not use as many rhymes, exact or slant, as Randall. As a result, the poem seemed to take a darker, serious tone. Unlike Randall, who recounted the bombing in the form of a backstory, Hughes took a more broad perspective. Hughes, first focuses on the victims, describing their death with blood on the walls, splattered flesh around the room. By adding these details, readers know that the four girls were the victims and how they died was horrid. Hughes also mentions torn to depict that what happened was painful for the victims, family, and to those who knew them. Hughes changes the direction of the poem, associating the dynamite with China and the red communist flag with the blood on the walls of the Sunday School. Hughes in his poem seems as if he is specifically angry with the Chinese for creating the explosive, dynamite. Hughes ends his poem without a doubt that the victims are dead, unlike Randall who leaves his open for speculation. Hughes also ends his poem saying that his hope is that one day, four girls will wake up to songs on the breeze, unfelt by magnolia trees. Though a magnolia tree is grown in the south, it is also commonly grown indoors in China. So, Hughes could be saying that even though the lives of four girls were taken by explosives created by the
This song talks a lot about the baggage of the past that people hold onto instead of letting it go. All that baggage is only going to end up hurting you more and more instead of helping you in any way possible. An example is the opening
Hurt touches everyone’s life in some way from breaking a bone to a broken heart. John Randall and Bill Anderson show this in the song that they wrote “Whiskey Lullaby” and is sung by Brad Paisley and Allison Kraus. A woman had an infidelity and her husband left her but he could never forget her. This lead to him drinking too much and eventually killing himself with a gun because of the guilt that his former wife felt, she drank too much and eventually killed herself with a gun as well. Three of the literary devices that are used in this song are an oxymoron, foreshadowing, and a metaphor.
In I Know why the Caged Bird Sings the author uses many different literary devices and various figurative language examples. The use of metaphors, imagery, similes, and Symbolism has a great effect. They’re effective due to the fact in how they inform the reader of various important details needed to understand the story completely. The use of specific, different, and various types of language illustrate to the reader the effect of racism on many characters in the novel.
Firstly, when Logic says “I've been on the low I been taking my time/I feel like I'm out of my mind/It feel like my life ain't mine” he is talking about someone calling the suicide hotline who is depressed. Secondly, when Alessa Cara sing “It's the very first/breath when your head's been drowning underwater” when she says drowning she means losing hope, so when she’s taking her first breath it is symbolizing to gain back a little hope. Another example of a literary device is when Alessa Cara sings “It's the lightness in the air/when you're there/chest to chest with a lover” when she says lightness in the air she means the relief of depression off your chest. When Logic says “What's the day without a little night/I'm just tryna shed a little light” he is trying to say that even when there are bad times there can still be a little light or
To continue, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Maya Angelou, and Alicia Keys have utilized various forms of literary devices in their works to fully explain and emphasize their main theme and opinions. For example, in Dunbar’s poem, ‘Sympathy,’ there is a strong use of metaphors, which is a phrase or word that represents another object or idea that it would not normally be related to. In the poem, the author uses a caged bird to somewhat symbolize racially oppressed African Americans in the 1800s. The poem includes, “I know why the caged bird sings, ah me…” “When he beats his bars and he would be free; It is not a carol of joy or glee, But a prayer that he sends from his heart’s deep core…” By using the symbol of the caged bird in the poem, the author
Within the poem we also see the usage of onomatopoeia, this is where the author uses words to imitate sounds, some of the words used to imitate sounds within the poem are, ‘history’, ‘twisted’ ‘dust’, the author is trying to give us the feeling of what it would have been like living in the real world of racism. Angelou also makes good use of rhymes and the frequent asking of rhetorical questions such as ‘Does my sassiness upset you’. Maya is asking the question for which she does not expect an answer because she already knows the answer, but rather she is making a statement. Another language factor used are the similes ‘Just like hopes springing high’. This suggests the simile of nature which is used to describe oppression which also tells us that oppression will not last forever.
This is a very lyrical poem. The speaker's emotions and intentions are made very clear in very inconspicuous ways. The subtle repetition of certain words and images give the poem a very distinct tone. For example, the repetition of the words "cold" and "brittle" in the description of the grass and the car seats is interesting. It adds an element of fragility or ephemerality to the poem. The prevalence of cold imagery is also remarkable. The cold setting seems to freeze not only the grass, but the moment in time at which the speaker is in. The icebox 'full of lightness of air' could be an ...
Lines 13 and 14 state, “Like a dream that makes you want to go back to sleep.” which uses imagery to help you imagine a
Philip Larkin’s poem “Talking in Bed” tells the truth about life and how relationships can slowly descend overtime. It explores the idea that no matter how close we are to someone, we can still experience intense depths of loneliness. The language emphasizes the feelings of what an empty marriage may feel like. The poem also gives the impression it is from the male’s perspective. It is written in four stanzas, each with three lines of ten syllables apiece. This makes it a short lyrical ballad. Through the tone, the language, and the imagery, Larkin is able to create a feeling in which he can effectively criticize and deconstruct the subject of innocence in relation to his current life experiences. There are many examples of imagery in this poem, all of which show two people in bed, lying close to each other, but somewhat distant in their relations as they realize how much they have changed. “Talking in Bed” also shows symbolism and lines that express multiple meanings by explaining the ultimate error throughout human history, man and wife living out their days with each other, yet being completely alone. They are not able to find the words that were once there, or knowing that the words that were once there never had true meaning.
The title of the song I will be analyzing is “Thing called Love” written by NF.This is an emotional rap rapping about how love could be a powerful emotion which can impact your life in a negative way and a positive. There is an abundant of themes in “Thing called Love” but, I believe the theme might be love can be something that can break us or it can help us grow. NF uses a diversity of figurative language devices,three of them are, personification, hyperbole ,and metaphor. In the chorus the personification is “This thing called love can be so cold”this is saying that love may not show any emotion or hospitality. The hyperbole”I’d rather spend a minute with love in my life than go a million years without knowing what it’s like”.
The song accomplishes such a thing by taking the approach of a man who knows he is dying, and who takes a nice approach to it. Before the man dies and gets to experience the beauty of heaven, he explains to his loved ones that he doesn't want them to cry for him when he is gone but rather be happy for him. Images of different seasons of the year to explain the process of growing older. Images that depict the fading of light in a persons soul transforming into darkness. Images that the reader can perceive as vivid actions.