Every Rose Has Its Thorn Figurative Language

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Love and heartbreak, they are one in the same. Without one, the other is nonexistent. American Rock Band Poison in their 1980’s Hit, “Every Rose Has Its Thorn”, Lead singer, Bret Michaels fervently reflects on the anguish suffered while being in love and getting your heart broken. Michaels supports his claim on love and romance by utilizing figurative language, anaphora and parallelism with the goal of expressing how love and heartbreak feels.
Lead singer of rock band Poison, Bret Michael in his Rock Ballard, “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” vividly employs figurative language to describe the feeling of love and heartbreak. The title of the song, “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” is an example of a metaphor, which describes loves as a beautiful rose with the treacherous thorns of heartbreak that comes along with it. This causes hopeless romantics who listen to this song to see love and heart break in a completely new light, similar to a double edge sword. The song also ends with figurative Language in the form of a simile. In the end of the song, …show more content…

In the 1980’s #1 Billboard hit, “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” the feeling of sorrowful love is prevalent. Glam rock band Poison utilizes anaphora with the goal of emphasizing the feeling of anguish and heartbreak. In the beginning of the song, he pleads to his lover “Though I tried not to hurt you, I tried”. Depressed rocker Bret Michaels repeats “I Tried “in the song while apologizing to his lover for what he did in order to get her back. In the chorus after the lead singer goes on to despondently says, “Every rose has its thorn” he says “just like every night has its dawn” and “Just like every cowboys sing a sad song”. Michaels uses anaphora to repeat the words “just like” to reiterate the good and bad aspects of love. Many times we find ourselves in a complicated situation of love

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