A famous actress once said, “Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you”. Singer-songwriter, Christina Perri, would agree wholeheartedly with this statement. In her single, “A Thousand Years”, Perri writes the speaker as one who has waited for love for quite some time and has finally found it. But, they are immensely afraid of letting their walls down and letting love into their life. After waiting for so long with multiple doubts and fears, the speaker decides that their love is worth it. In the song, “A Thousand Years”, the speaker utilizes a range of rhetorical devices such as rhetorical questions, anaphoras, and hyperboles which all come together to a clear purpose: to convince their significant that their love is true and worth it. …show more content…
Throughout the song, the speaker asks rhetorical questions in order to communicate with their lover.
For example, in lines 4-5, the speaker says “How to be brave?/ How can I love when I'm afraid To fall?”. The speaker is not necessarily asking for an answer in return, but is instead stating that they are not sure how they will be brave in this situation. Also, by asking how to love if they’re afraid to fall introduces the idea that this person may have been hurt before and does not want to fall, or be hurt again. So, before the speaker begins to tell their loved one their feelings, they almost warn them that they are going to remain cautious in order to protect themselves.
Along with rhetorical questions, the speaker applies anaphoras into her words. This is a form of repetition used where the first word of the line is repeating through the next. Lines 23-24 say, “Every breath,/ Every hour has come to this”. The speaker applies anaphoras into their writing as an attempt to convince their lover that this is what they have been waiting for, for so long. By doing so, the message comes across that everything that has happened was for a specific reason in order to lead up to this very
moment. Repeated throughout every single chorus, the speaker makes it their objective to tell their lover how much they love them. In their attempts, they utilize hyperboles in order to get their point across. For example, in each chorus, the speaker says, “I have died everyday/ Waiting for you/ Darlin' don't be afraid,/ I have loved you for a Thousand years/ I'll love you for a Thousand more”. The speaker does not literally mean that their life has been taken every single day while they waited, but simply that they have been waiting a long while for them to come into their life. Also, the speaker has not loved their significant other for literally a thousand years, nor will they love them for close to a thousand years to come, but is instead saying that they have loved them for a very long time and they will continue doing so for a very long time. By applying a hyperbole, the speaker is able to stress how serious that they love them very much. Due to rhetorical questions, anaphoras, and hyperboles, the speaker is able to express their love and communicate strongly to their significant other. It is clearly evident that the speaker is hesitant to let love into their life, but later in the song decides that they have been waiting far too long to let this moment pass them by. They decide that their love is definitely worth it because they have loved them and will continue to love them for as long as they possibly can. Although love can be nerve-racking and confusing, if it is the right love, it is worth the wait in the end.
The repetition of the words “waited” (13), and “watched” (14), throughout the stanzas adds anaphora and mystery to the vivid disapproval surrounding the family. Moreover, the use of repetition deepens the focus on the shame and guilt the young girl and her family are experiencing. The anaphora used throughout the poem intends that there is something being waited for. Therefore, the colonialist settlers are continuously waiting and watching for something to happen. In the last stanza Dumont states, “Or wait until a fight broke out” (55), suggesting that this is the action being waited for. As a result, the negative action causes the family to feel shame and regret. Overall, the use of musicality and anaphora successfully allows the reader to experience the pressure of
This essay is anchored on the goal of looking closer and scrutinizing the said poem. It is divided into subheadings for the discussion of the analysis of each of the poem’s stanzas.
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The repetition of the... ... middle of paper ... ... ld of art and literature. Since the "marriage", the parent generation, is already dead or dying, therefore every new creation is now also afflicted with disease and condemned to death. Consequently this means the end of hope for a renewal of society, but since the stanza begins with the word "how", this is also a voice of accusation and a demand for change.
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