The song “Heartless” by Kanye West, reveals heartbreak and negativity and how we cope with loss. In this song West had ended his relationship with his ex girlfriend Alexis, who allegedly cheated on him. He demonstrates this negative attitude using tones that are hurtful and bitter. We can prove the negative attitude by using the elements of style repetition, figurative language, such as similes and metaphors. Heartless is about a troubled relationship. West is reflecting on the toxic relationship he was once stuck in. The two can’t stay out of each other’s lives and continue to argue and the relationship becomes toxic. Her and his friends become involved and influence their decisions whether to stay or leave. In the end, he decides to leave and says she’ll never find …show more content…
Repetition shows the severity of a subject and how the writer feels towards it. In the song, “Heartless” by Kanye West, repetition is a common trait. Words such as “talking, “heartless”, and ”they” are repeated multiple times in this song to show the tones, hurtful, and bitter. In the chorus West repeats “heartless” a number of times in order to show tones. In the quote, “How could you be so heartless” he implies that his significant other is showing little emotion toward him and is neglecting their relationship. Her heartless behavior is pushing him away when he just wants to stay. West is being bitter toward his significant other and the way she’s acting. She isn’t the person that West first met and it is driving him insane. Reminiscing on the good times is what got him through the day, but the good times have ended. Talking is used to represent Kanye’s significant other speaking about their relationship to her friends and saying things behind his back. “They don’t know what we been through”. West is showing that her friends and outside forces are messing with her own decision
The speaker’s rocky encounter with her ex-lover is captured through personification, diction, and tone. Overall, the poem recaps the inner conflicts that the speak endures while speaking to her ex-lover. She ponders through stages of the past and present. Memories of how they were together and the present and how she feels about him. Never once did she broadcast her emotions towards him, demonstrating the strong facade on the outside, but the crumbling structure on the inside.
Since the character is illiterate, he has no ability to determine his true feelings for the loved one. Additionally, this use of repetitive words in the poem also shows the lack of diction by the character. When words are repeated, it typically tells someone that they are either confused or have a weak vocabulary. Since it is implied that the man had a small lexicon because of his illiteracy, the poem reveals his ideas in a simplistic and repetitive wording
Love is undoubtedly a universal theme with numerous characterisations in different genres. David Solway illustrates unrequited love in his poem The Dream as agonising, bewildering and hard to accept by the use of ideas, perspectives and language. In a similar way, Marc Webb’s film 500 Days of Summer and Gavin Degraw’s song Not Over You expresses this representation of unrequited love through their use of ideas, perspectives and language. They effectively translate this representation of unrequited love in their genres in order to create an emotional response from their audiences.
Dylan Thomas wrote the poem “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.” It is about a son’s plea to his father who is approaching death. Two lines are repeated in the poem and addressed directly to the father. These lines structure the first stanza and collaborate as a couplet in the last. They are repeated a lot but each time, they have different meanings: statements, pleas, commands, or petitions. Repetition and rhyme scheme are parts of prosody in poetry. The rhyme scheme is built on two rhymes and forms of a pattern. The two rhymes are night and day and the pattern is aba, and in the last stanza, abaa. Even though the poem seems to have too much repetition, the fascinating imagery is more important and readers pay more attention to that instead.
The title of the song shines surprisingly clear, though it creates a feeling of being unpleasant and obnoxious for the listeners. The man in this song either feels rejected or disappointed at the world as it seems to be so cruel and also beautiful. Obviously, the world itself always has an equal balance of good and bad and you can never have both. Even though the man got his girl but he feels they are falling apart.
Song lyrics have set off a great generation of our leisure time than reading poetic devices, therefore song lyrics are better than poetic devices. Song lyrics have dropped numerous lines that attach to us now a days and make us listen to the line over and over unlike poetic devices. Song Lyrics have so much meaning by word choice and by relations.”Mr. Rager” by Kid Cudi, is about people fed up with society and plan on taking a journey. “Dreams” by Edgar Allen Poe, is about a man who dreams of a greater life. Mr. Rager, the song by Scott Cudi, has a better meaning than Dreaming, the poem by Edgar Allen Poe, by personification, allusion, and symbolism.
When, it shows that the narrator is “angry” because he has been “bamboozled”. This shows how he still has not forgotten about his past relationship. Also, how he is upset “I get tearful when I’ve downed a drink or two”. This implies that he is stressed and thinks the only thing to help him is to drink alcohol to make him feel better and not think about the past. He also describes himself as “marooned”; this heightens that he thinks that he is alone even though that he is with someone. Furthermore, when the narrator talks about how he is on a “rebound”. This shows how he is still thinking about his past relationship and is not over it. Additionally, he repeats three times “Don’t talk to me of love”, this implies that he is fed up of people talking about love because he didn’t end well for him. The poem has four stanzas of five or six lines, with a longer stanza of nine lines in the centre, acting as a chorus in which the mood of the poem changes. The repeated line “I’m in Paris with you”, this reflects the speakers insistent concentration on the present. There is a colloquial language, suggesting this is an informal poem. For example “had an earful” and “say sod off to sodding Notre Dame”.
Writing 2 Aidyn Ogilvy: Writing Portfolio I am going to write about a scene from the movie The Shawshank Redemption. I will be using figurative language to put the audience in the shoes of the main lead character Andy Dufrense. My audience will be people who like Stephen King. The scene will be when he escapes the prison. The lights have been turned out.
In life all humanity faces a struggle or heartbreak that seems almost impossible to make it through. In the poem Everybody Has a Heartache the author Joy Harjo discusses and introduces the opinion that everyone faces a heartache or blues. The author goes into detail about the different kinds of heartbreak that goes on in a variety of peoples’ everyday life. This poem was very interesting to me because the author chose very diverse and out of the normal heartbreaks for her characters to face rather than the normal heartbreaks that everyone can see. The author used several literary devices to establish an emotional connection with the readers.
“Songs are not artistic.” Compared to some poetry, that statement can be very true. But looking deeper into the topic and looking at more songs and poetry, it will be observed that that is not always the case. Despite frequent belief, not all current, modern music is filled with unintellectual lyrics, especially those from the works of Twenty One Pilots. As a result of having a large quantity of metaphors, repetition, and complex layout, “Guns For Hands” by Twenty One Pilots is more artistic than “Life Is Fine” by Langston Hughes.
In todays society poetry is all around us, we use it in music to deliver messages to the average radio listener. According to SelectUSA (The creative Media industry in the United States) The United States music industry in 2011 reached 15.2 billion dollars. With the information given a person can tell that a lot of time and money goes into music in today’s society. The music people listen to have many different elements that an average listener would not pick up. Many songs have poetic techniques that give great meaning to the song that makes the song unique. The song I Love the way you Lie by Eminem and Rihanna and the song Airplanes by B.o.B are similar in ways they use poetic devises and how the over all message of the two songs can relate to the average person that listen to the song.
When James Taylor’s album, Sweet Baby James, was introduced in February of 1970, the country was still in a daze from the Vietnam War, the Kennedy and King assassinations, and the Manson murders. The country needed a something thoughtful and serene to make it through the foreign and domestic chaos; James Taylor’s album was just that. The lyrics in Sweet Baby James and specifically “Fire and Rain” turned out to be some of the most relatable lyrics of the time period. People could listen to a song and automatically hear their own situations in it. Not surprisingly, Sweet Baby James and “Fire and Rain” ended up being Top Five hits by the end of 1970 (Browne). Knowing background information is pertinent in fueling the meaning of the song. When analyzing James Taylor’s song “Fire and Rain,” one can see that it contains superb examples of allusion, juxtaposition, and symbolism that are prevalent in poetry. The poetic devises used in this song amplify the song’s overall theme of grief.
Such as, how Tupac used his song “Changes” to refer to the institutionalized racism in America in regards to law enforcement and so forth. On example from his lyrics states, “Cops give a damn about a negro/ Pull the trigger, kill a nigga, he's a hero.” Another commonly known song that makes ties with Hill’s is Kanye’s song “When It All Falls Down.” Kanye wanted the ties of her lyrics incorporated into his song so much that after his failed attempted to get Lauryn Hills sample cleared he got a replacement singer to perform it on his song alternatively. However, his concept for this song was different as its purpose was more of a self-contemplation of his individualized battle with consumerism. Today society is affected by artists like Lauryn Hill and her lyrics and often quote lyrics like that of hers as references for equality and moral rights in modern society. Today more than ever the incarceration rates are raising extremely. Not to mention, in the past year we have seen some of the biggest out cries for our African American communities with people using the power of social media to come together on a common ground in regards to law enforcement unjustly killing African Americans and other minorities while in the attempt of arresting them. With that being said as Lauryn Hills lyrics state “Ya'll can't handle the truth in a courtroom of lies. Representing security/Holding the word of God
The second song, Change, also shows the problem with systematic oppression. J. Cole recounts the time that he saw his friend get shot. This is the main point of the whole album and the song revolves around the tale of this friend who is killed. The last song, 4 Your Eyez Only, brings everything back together and tells the full narrative of his friend’s unfortunate fate. While attacking the life that many people glorify and empathizing with those who are stuck in this life, J Cole closes out his fourth album on a hopeful note. Using the perspective of his deceased friend, he writes a song (the actual album), for his daughter, condemning all that is bad and hoping for her to grow into a somebody. In a heart touching verse the father states “Maybe you hate me, maybe you miss me, maybe you spite
For many of us, one of the most accurate and effective ways to express the feelings that really matter to us is through music. We don’t only grow to attached to songs that are catchy, but also those with lyrics that we can relate to. It is not uncommon to feel like sometimes, artists can convey the way we feel better than we could ourselves. The storybook-like lines you read at the start of this page are a collection of lyrics