Comparing The Song 'If I Am James Dean, Then You' Re Audrey Hepburn

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The poem “ Annabel Lee” is about a great love; the author catches the reader’s attention by using many literary devices. The song, “ If I’m James Dean then you’re Audrey Hepburn” is also a great love tale and uses many literary terms as well. They both use many different devices but they have a few in common. The poem “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allen Poe and the song “ If I Am James Dean, Then You’re Audrey Hepburn” by Sleeping with Sirens are similar because they both use repetition as a literary device to show that they are both talking about a similar message; love, but while Poe also uses personification, Sleeping with Sirens uses metaphor.
Edgar Allan Poe while uses repetition to show his message. The repetition of “ Annabel Lee” is used …show more content…

Poe uses personification in his writing. Personification is exemplified in this line: “winged seraphs of heaven / Coveted her.” Poe gave human life to non-human things and because of this the readers get a better understanding of what Poe is trying to convey. When he refers to “winged seraphs of heaven” he is talking about alleged angels. Poe’s writing in this poem shows that he is sad for the loss of his wife. By saying that angels were jealous and took her life because of their love is showing that he does not want to come to the reality that his wife is gone. The use of personification is important in the poem because readers can look at the writing and tell the tone Poe wrote in and they can now better understand his …show more content…

Metaphor is used in the line “ You bring out the beast in me.” He is not literally saying there is a beast inside of him and she is the person to bring it out, it is saying that she allows him to show a different side of himself to her. The whole song has a loving yet desperate tone to it and that line shows this because he loves her so much he can bring out this other side of himself to her that he may not be able to do with other people and the readers can understand this because of the word choices they made when writing the song. This metaphor is an important part of the whole song because it shows the reader the love in a way that makes them think. Using literary devices is important because it allows you to communicate with your audience and make them think of underlying meanings behind the

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