Literary Devices Used In Mockingbird By Eminem

Mockingbird, simply the greatest

Mockingbird by Eminem is by far the best song and or poem. Mockingbird is a song that embodies Eminem’s journey to stardom and his struggles trying to keep his career and family life together. Not only is it a literary masterpiece with the endless amounts of poetic devices, but it is also a song with a great message in which the people of today’s society can relate too. Furthermore, the literary devices used in the song help us as listeners understand Eminem as a person and his love towards his daughters.

Literary devices are used in diverse ways to convey a message. Hyperboles are used to show the love he has for his children. Line 85 “I’mma give you the world” (Mathers) represents that his children are the most important to him. If he is willing to give them the world they must be very special or most important because he is willing to give them literary everything. Another line that goes along with this is line 88 “I’ll do anything for you to see you smile” (Mathers). In this case it still shows how he will do anything even if it means getting hurt or suffering to make them happy. On the topic of doing anything, line 92 “And make him eat every carat” (Mathers), is an example of him doing anything if his children are not happy or satisfied. In sum

The chorus is an allusion because it referring to the common lullaby “Hush Little Baby.” The importance of this is that lullabies bring comfort which his two daughters need, so the lullaby goes well with the surface meaning of the song. The other allusion is line 72 “Papa was a rollin’ stone” (Mathers). This is important because it showed how Eminem was famous and was considered a rolling stone. This was bad because rolling stones were not a good role model, showing to us listeners yet another struggle in his family life. The allusions in this song were to prove that he was famous, a bad role model and how wants to help or be with his