Intro The song “1800 273 8255” by Logic featuring Alessia Cara and Khalid, is a song about suicide prevention. He titled the song 1800 273 8255 because he wants someone to say “I do feel this way this is inspiring me, let me call this number Logic is an american rapper that loves to rap with a message. When Logic would go over to fans houses fans would always tell him that his music had saved their life and he would say to himself “Man I wasn't even trying to say anybody's life” and then it hit him and he thought “what would happen if I actually did”.In this song Logic wants to show that suicide is not the answer to your problems, that suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Logic says that he thinks that this song was a record that was years in the making. Body …show more content…
There are multiple examples of literary devices in this song.
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
hope. Conclusion The theme of Logics “1800 273 8255” is suicide prevention. The theme is shown best in the lyric “It can be hard/it can be so hard/but you gotta live right now/you got everything to give right now” this best represents the theme because in this verse Logic wants to send the message that not everything is bad, that there are other things to be positive about. In this song Logic is saying that problems will eventually get solved, and suicide is not the answer to any of the problems he wants you to persevere and get through those problems.
The opening stanza sets the tone for the entire poem. Updike uses symbolism to portray the sad, disappointing life Flick ...
The first stanza describes the depth of despair that the speaker is feeling, without further explanation on its causes. The short length of the lines add a sense of incompleteness and hesitance the speaker feels towards his/ her emotions. This is successful in sparking the interest of the readers, as it makes the readers wonder about the events that lead to these emotions. The second and third stanza describe the agony the speaker is in, and the long lines work to add a sense of longing and the outpouring emotion the speaker is struggling with. The last stanza, again structured with short lines, finally reveals the speaker 's innermost desire to "make love" to the person the speaker is in love
For instance, the novel reads, “… my right arm prickles and then numbs and my chest all of a sudden feels like it’s splintering, like inside some man is throwing his shoulder against a door again and again” (21). Corrigan’s anorexia often comes with dangerous consequences. It is evident in this excerpt that she is in a state of pain as she compares how she feels to being hit again and again by a man seemingly inside her. Although the reader is not able to experience her physical pain, they are able to understand to some extent the pain in which she is feeling. Poetic devices allow readers to recognize a character’s emotions by comparing it to a different circumstance. Likewise, the author wrote, “… I spread the local paper out on my kitchen table, looking for the movie listings and a slim column on the front page rose up: North Brunswick Man Shot and I only stopped to read it because that’s where you lived—in the sprawling neighborhood as secure and tended as a tiny national park…” (56). Corrigan’s old boyfriend, Danny, was known to be suicidal and one night decided to shoot himself in the head with a handgun. The bullet entered his head and ricocheted off his skull, narrowly missing his brain. For Corrigan, discovering this in her local paper came as quite a shock to her and she wondered how such an event could happen in a
It seems that with each word and image the speaker’s mood or view of the topic is shown. “Truth” accurately depicts the speaker’s mind through the questions and thoughts that are stated. For instance, the first line says “And if sun comes/ How shall we greet him?” (1-2). These words clearly reveal that the speaker is questioning what he or she may do when greeted with this “him”. The question creates an image of the sun, it becomes a person that someone might not want to greet or speak to. The speaker seems very nervous and anxious through these lines. Lines four through six state “Shall we not fear him/ After so lengthy a/ Session with shade?” which continues the speaker’s questions and brings in the image of “a session of shade”. This continuous questioning is brought together with the continuous time of darkness or a period of time without truth. The word choice makes the speaker seem curious and slightly angry at the fact that the truth hurts. The rapid fire of questions leads one to believe there is an aggressive shot, directed at the painful side of the “perfect” truth. Stanza two shows the speaker in a more personal way with the inclusion of the words, “Though we have wept for him,/ Though we have prayed/ All through the night-years—“ (7-9). This is more of a sad tone, which leads the reader into the speaker’s mindset. The image shows that the speaker feels he or she wasted time or energy wanting the truth. It depicts the speaker praying on his or her knees, crying and begging for the truth. The inclusion of the word “him” lets one see this almost as a let down from an actual person. The stanza moves on and says “[We] Hear the fierce hammering/ Of his firm knuckles/ Hard on the door?” (11-13). This image is such a great glance into the speaker’s brain. It uses words such as “fierce”, “hammering”, “firm”, and “hard” which provoke a thought that the truth is a danger. The
During the song he says "She’s a beast" and he is comparing her to a beast or a monster. Also in the song she will say "Shawty so bad". That will be a metaphor because she will be comparing how crummy Shawty is. The third quote is "She can be my Sleeping Beauty". This is saying if she
In the poem, “Traveling Through the Dark”, the author, William Stafford, uses many poetic devices that enhance the true meaning of the poem. The poetic devices found in the poem include poem’s persona, tone, word choice, imagery, symbolism, and comparisons. Stafford uses these poetic devices to help the readers to experience and visualize the situation that the narrator is going through.
This message is conveyed in the song through poetic devices in the lyrics such as personification, metaphor, allusion, repetition, alliteration, and oxymoron. Also, the music in the song helps to convey the message and mood of the song. I cannot wait until Lupe drops another song so I can listen to it and learn more life lessons all while being entertained by his
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At the beginning of the poem, Wright utilizes a melancholic tone when he communicates how suicide “begins to contemplate [us]” when we “contemplate suicide long enough”. The melancholic tone allows us to see the woeful aspects of severe mental health and how “it has plans for [us]” and how “it calls to [our] attention to the windows of certain tall buildings”. As in most cases where we think about anything for too long, the subject or object of contemplation slowly beings to control us until we finally reach an answer. With the melancholic tone, we become aware of the dreadful process
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After one clicks on the keyhole at the start of the poem, appear three faces, which are the mother, son, and the son’s significant other, who symbolize past, present, and future (Sakellion). The mother is the past, and will soon be gone, the son is the present, and the son’s significant other symbolizes the future of the family because one day she may have children and carry on the family. Also, the ties that are shown between the mother and the son and the son and the woman also symbolize the ties between the past, present, and future: how they are not their own separate worlds, but blend together in many ways. To continue, the way the poem’s lines are presented also add on to the theme of connections in “Intersecting Lives.” Even though when one clicks on each individual face there are different lines, at the end it always leads back to several sentences such as “hope never left me” and “just waiting for it to go away” that were repeated over and over in a way that seemed to be a visual echo (Sakellion). This “visual echo” that Sakellion portrays shows that even though each person may have different experiences in life, some feelings are universal.
Suicide and death are huge topics today, as well as in times long before today in literature, as well as all types of music, even classical music and jazz! This subject is present in both the book 13 Reasons Why and the song You Feel So Lonely You Could Die. In the depressing and lonely book, 13 Reasons Why, the author, Jay Asher conveys that when a person feels lonely, it makes them do unthinkable and life-altering things because they don’t feel loved or worth anything to anyone. In the lonely and morbid song, You Feel So Lonely You Could Die, David Bowie also portrays that loneliness can make a person feel helpless and not want to live. Both works include similar themes, and they also share similar topics, such as suicide.
From the first stanza of this song, you get put into a scene. You know almost immediately that it is about someone, and it is the middle of December, but without stating the obvious, it paints a more illustrated picture for you. The first line states, “A winters day, in a deep and dark December” and I could almost immediately feel a cool breeze around me. When I normally think of a winter’s day, I think of people playing in the snow, and having a good time. This may be because I grew up in Southern California where there has been a lack of snow, but in my head, that is what I imagine. Having them state, in a deep and dark December, turns my attitudes to the more pessimistic way of looking at things. The image of children playing in the snow in my head has now turned to cold and dark emptiness. Reinstating my idea of emptiness, the next line follows with the simply statement, “I am alone”. Personally, I hate being alone. So to have the opening words place us in a deep and dark setting, and then state that you are alone, automatically puts me in a negative mindset.
In his song, “I’m Not Racist” he speaks on the topic of racism, where he says really offensive but true things. The song wasn’t made to show who is right or wrong because they both have really good points, the song was made to get people to start conversations and the song, “I’m Not Racist” is right now his most known song. His song, “I’m Sorry” talks on the topic of suicide, where he tell both sides of the person having the thoughts of suicide and the friend of the person who gets affected by his friend commiting suicide and also it is the first song I heard by him. He actually never experienced depression nor had anyone close to him have these thoughts he wrote these lyrics by watching movies and hearing about how people feel about suicide.In
Individuals must feel their way and get hurt before they are aware and can see everything clearer; in “We grow accustomed to the Dark,” the speaker admits that even “[t]he Bravest - grope a little - / And sometimes hit a Tree / Directly in the Forehead - / But as they learn to see - / Either the Darkness alters - Or something in the sight” (Dickinson 13-18). Though the speaker doesn’t view the world just like how others that haven’t been lost in the darkness do, she becomes hardened to her pain, and her emotions ease off, leading to a lighter perspective to what was previously dark and negative. The way a person feels influence the way he or she wants to see things since emotions, such as grief, play a big part in distorting what is actually there. Paralleling to The Joy Luck Club, Rose was also trapped in a cloud of darkness “... with no feelings of dimensions or direction” after Ted demanded a divorce (Tan 215-216). By staying in a coma-like state, Rose’s senses dull, and she chooses to no longer view the world with her eyes. She shuts off strong feelings of sorrow and closes herself off to the rest of society. However, like the speaker in Dickinson’s poem, Rose’s perspective becomes more clear as she gets used to the darkness, but she loses herself in the process. Both texts incorporate sight as a connection to the outside world. As the speaker and