Comparing The Song Scars To Your Beautiful

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Marilyn Monroe once said “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” People believe that pop music in this era is vain, conceited and much more. In The Guardian, Simon Armitage stated "Or songs are not poems, I should say. In fact, songs are often bad poems. Take the music away and what you're left with is often an awkward piece of creative writing full of lumpy syllables, cheesy rhymes, exhausted cliches and mixed metaphors."(Wheeler 1). Though, songs have come a long way and still thrive with poetic devices within them and have a deeper meaning than what people say about them. The song “Scars to your beautiful” by Alessia Cara is an equal art form to the poem “Beauty, Inside And Out” by Camacy Melville using the poetic terms of comparisons, repetition, and the tone. …show more content…

In both the poem and song, the subject and purpose of each, is to show both women and men that no matter what their appearance is, their beauty is on the inside and that is what counts. Camacy stated “Black and Beauty / that describes the outside of me / Nice or mean, you have to decide” and Alessia stated “So to all the girls that's hurting / Let me be your mirror, help you… / The light that shines within”. The theme of “Scars to your Beautiful” is that no matter what your body looks like, you are still beautiful on the inside and that is what counts. Alessia

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