House By The Sea Figurative Devices

In his song “House by the Sea”, Pål Moddi Knutsen utilizes figurative devices throughout his song. In the first line of the song, he sings, “They say home is the place where your heart is” (Moddi). The metaphor tells the listener how some people see home as a place in which is the center of a person and how a person's home is in a sense apart of them like how a heart is apart of them. This figurative device puts an idea of what a home can mean to some people and helps the listeners to get a sense of what Moddi hears that people's idea of home is. In addition, he sings, “So it's not really as if i am leaving / It’s more like something pulling me” (Moddi). The simile compares the differences between leaving and how he feels like something is

pulling him.This figurative device puts an image in the listeners heads and helps them see how he sees things. Lastly, near the ending of the song, he sings, “And I've decided to carry home inside me” (Moddi). In this metaphor he is telling us that he has come to the conclusion that his home is wherever he chooses and or wants to be because he takes his home wherever he goes and carries it inside him. This figurative device leaves us with an understanding of how he sees a home and how if you carry home inside your heart it doesn't really feel like you're leaving. This gives the listener a sense of growth in the song because throughout the song he was stating what people/they said home was and near the end he came to a conclusion and decided what his idea of home was which surrounds the theme of the song. The theme of the song is that to become the person who you want to be, you might have to leave but if you carry your home in your heart, it doesn't really feel like you're leaving. In conclusion, throughout the song “House by the Sea” Pål Moddi Knutsen uses figurative devices over the course of the song to add depth and complexity to his song.