The song “Demons” by Imagine Dragons is about a person who hides his issues deep within him so that no one finds out he has troubles. When the narrator faces the problems alone, he wants to have someone to help him, but then realizes that he does not want to worry them. This song uses metaphors to convey that the song is about how hard it is to keep a secret from others. The metaphor of a closed curtain on a stage compares to the narrator putting on an act and keeping his troubles from others. The line, “At the curtain’s call” symbolizes the end of the narrator’s façade of happiness to his friends. This metaphor is extended with the line “When the lights fade out/All the sinners crawl”, where the “sinners” are shown as the narrator’s problems. These lines show the narrator’s preference to keep his issues to himself. After his ‘performance’ ends, and he is alone, he then lets all of his troubles out. …show more content…
The phrase “Your eyes they shine so bright” shows that the metaphor through the comparison of light to innocence to show that this person is happy and hopeful. The same comparison is shown with the phrase “I wanna save that light.” The audience can tell that to keep his friend from worrying and ruining their happiness, the narrator does not share his troubles. The metaphors in Imagine Dragons’ song “Demons” shows the contrast between having a problem and keeping the secret to themselves. This can be seen when the narrator conveys that after he pretends in public that he is okay and happy, he crashes down when he is alone. However, the narrator wants his friend to remain happy, and he does not share his burdens with
Examining the literary terms used in this poem, one should mention alliteration first. It is used in the following line: “There are those who suffer in plain sight, / there are those who suffer in private” (line 1-2). Another literary device,
Throughout the piece, we see the use of audience as active participants to amplify the didactic message of the play. In the literature we see many instances where the author uses this cognitive distancing as a way to disrupt the stage illusion and make the audience active members of the play. Forcing the audience into an analytical standpoint as opposed to passively accepting whats happening in their conscious minds. This occurs time and time again in the fourth act of the play. The characters repeatedly break down the fourth wall and engage the audience with open participation. We see this in the quotation from the end of the fourth Act of the play:
The minister’s friends and neighbors are so upset by the veil because the veil becomes a wall between himself and his congregation. The first response is one of curiosity which then turns in suspicion. They cannot understand the meaning for the wearing of the black veil and in turn the people become very uncomfortable around him. The veil and it color ...
The gothic characteristics that are found in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Minister’s Black Veil” delve into the dark side of the human mind where secret sin shrouds the main characters in self anguish and insanity. Both Poe and Hawthorne focus on how much of a burden hiding sins from people can be, and how the human mind grows weak and tired from carrying such a burden. Poe illustrates that with his perturbed character Roderick Usher who was rotting from the inside like his “mansion of gloom” (Poe 323). Hawthorne dives deep into the mind of one Mr. Hooper, a minister, a man admired by all, until he starts wearing a black veil to conceal his face because “ The subject had reference to secret sin” (Hawthorne 311) . An analysis of both Mr. Hooper and Roderick Usher show through their speech, actions, behaviors, and interaction with other humans, the daily strain of hiding sin from one another.
The depiction of imagery in this poem insinuates a moaning and nagging experiences; the negative and painful experience that people suffers because of an unimportant element that cannot supply the basic necessity of life: “Pinned down
Subject- The lyrics in this song brings up a reoccurring problem that everyone faces throughout their lifetime. Everyone wants to fit in or belong to someone, or something. This song easily compares to the book Frankenstein, when the reader is introduced to the monster. The monster that Victor created does not understand the world he has been put into, or how to operate in everyday society. In the first stanza Phil Collins writes,
What occurs if the soul in its small beginnings is forced to take on a secret life? He harbors his secrets in fear and guilt, confessing them to no one until in time the voice of his father chastising him becomes his own. A small war is waged in his mind (Griffin 352).
Throughout the second and final act the musical content within the play acts as a story of it’s own through theme and variation. Each separate song represents a feeling and or mood and is enhanced as it is varied throughout the act. Like the first act, the songs are used to portray poverty, suffering, hardships, and even death. However, unlike the first act, there is also a theme of love and happiness. Closure is brought about with a sense of warmth and this is often heard through the display of the tempo. When the times were tough the tempo decreased and was often slow and morbid like.
In the first stanza, lines 1-5, the mask symbol is first mentioned. Masks are often used to hide ones face and intentions from those around them,
...your heads”. The theatrical references of the “play within plays” device; implicitly raises questions over truth as ultimately inexplicable. The conventions of the traditional Shakespearean stage are repeatedly parodied, with the Player’s recognition of his role, “We’re actors. We’ve pledged our identities…that someone would be watching”. In a time of obscurity and political censorship, this urges the Stoppardian audience to question their very own realities. “I could jump over the side. That will put a spoke in their wheel”.
Many poems and pieces of literature address the different social issue that we may experience still in today worlds. " We Wear The Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar focuses on talking about how we wear masks that hide our true feelings. Also, the speaker covers in the poem all the things that the mask hides in the world not to see all the pain and suffering that people have behind the mask. The mask that we wear doesn 't do us any favors, instead, it makes suffer to make others happy around us.
When readers flip the fabric of Twelfth Night over, they discover its alternate side, an illusory world which causes audience members to question the rigidity of truth itself and the very meaning of identity. Shakespeare spins this world into a flawed reality and, through its many falsehoods, illustrates the ethereal and ever-changing quality of a quest for the self which love’s confusion both taints and enhances. The discrepancy between the audience’s knowledge and the characters’ awareness serves to further establish and increase the gap between illusion and truth, while language merges with love to create mass confusion. But amid the chaos, the characters somehow manage to mature, learning to define themselves after attaining the ability to love selflessly.
This song is an excellent example of the empowerment women and men may need occasionally. When someone is faced with a painful situation, people basically show two kinds of reaction: giving up or struggling. Those who decide to give up will usually keep complaining and blaming others for the situation they face. In contrast, those who decide to struggle, even though initially show almost the same reactions as the first group of people, they will finally choose to look at the good side of the situation they face. The process of being down, looking for the positives, and avoiding negative thoughts or feelings may be difficult but could ultimately result in the greatest gift of all, happiness.
...ith the lack of closure the author has paved many paths, making one unable to give a proper retelling of the play due to various interpretations. The play has also slyly inserted a philosophy on human life, the uncertainty and how it is a major part of human life is portrayed through this play. All these characteristic together make this play a very good play, it makes one want to live forever as to see what future generations would interpret the play as. In conclusion, this text is written to make the readers think and participate as active members in the reading of the play.
The muse is very careful to remind the reader that Satan is in a high position because of his greed, and the high position he has obtained is not a good position t...