The song Out of the Woods is full of anxiety, heartache, and disillusion. In the chorus of the song, "Are we out of the woods yet?" is repeated multiple times at quick speed, which could easily be interpreted as desperate or anxious. She asks if they're in the clear yet, and it's quite obvious that this song is about a high-profiled relationship that Swift was in. She feels trapped, knowing that the relationship could easily come to an end. She highlights the good times in the relationship, with references to a paper airplane necklace that was given to her, as they danced around her living room. However, the song takes a drastic turn during the bridge, when their skiing trip turns sour and ends with an accident. "Remember when you hit the
Feeling unwanted from the closest people in your life who turn away from you when you need them the most, is the worst feeling a person can endure. I chose the song “My Story” by Sean McGee, because people young and old can relate to his song. People from different backgrounds can relate to each other when there are living homeless or raised as a foster child. Sean McGee wrote “my daddy don’t know, my momma don’t care, it don’t matter if I’m here, it don’t matter if I’m dead” people all around the world have the same issues and share a common culture. A master status is the most important status a person occupies, this is a key factor in determining a person’s social position.
The balance of the individual and community is a prevalent theme throughout The Bean Trees. Kingsolver organizes the book by first introducing us to Taylor's unique individuality and then combining that with the community ideal. The first chapter of the book takes place in Kentucky where Taylor lives with her mother. Through the incidents in Taylor's early life, we come to recognize her strong resolve to be individual. In her book Barbara Kingsolver A Critical Companion, Mary Jean DeMarr agrees with me when she tells us Taylor is "a strong character who usually knows what she wants and what she wants to do and goes about getting and doing it" (45).
When the girls concurrently throw their twigs into the hole it is as if they are throwing themselves into each other’s consciousness, making a permanent connection with one another. Each twig represents their independent selves being joined with the other when they are thrown together into the hole to be buried.
“Fire away. Take your best shot, show me what you got. Honey I’m not afraid (Chris, Lines 4-5)…” Strength, love, heartache, all words that many people can identify with, but what about mental illness, depression, and suicide. These words are those that humans avoid, pretend they are not there, but in reality those three words effect many more people that was ever thought possible. Over 18.2% of United States citizens suffer from a mental illness (Depression), 6.7% of United States citizens suffer from depression (Depression), and each year in the United States there are on average 42,773 deaths by suicide (American). Now, many people can relate to the words love and heartbreak, but many more can identify with the three words that the world
Phrases like “rang a true note, or a bell”, show how she felt, happy and content. This is a huge shift from the “lost, sunk” feeling that she felt earlier in the passage before the revelation. She explains the feeling as being “blown by a generous, unending breath. That breath never ceases to kindle….in every direction and burgeon into flame”. She feels swept away by a breath that starts small, “kindle”-- when one is without understanding-- that “burgeons into flame”-- when it has been revealed. Now when she is alone and unsure, she would think maple key. Also, when she meets with people and she greets them, she would think maple key -- two lively, vibrant individuals with different paths that collide. She ends the passage by saying, “If I am a maple key falling, at least I can twirl”, meaning, even though she loses her path, falling is not all bad because it’s part of the beauty of
I can personally relate this song to my past relationship with a guy of 2 years. We had many rough patches while we were together. There were things in the relationship that I can never erase; yet I feel as though I will never fully let him go. He's still trying so hard to get me back and I'm taking advantage of it. I get many mixed emotions about him and the thought of starting up the relationship again. The hardest part is that he's the only person I truly feel I can completely be myself around. Yet, I fear that it will start right back where it ended. All he wants to be is my giving tree and make me happy.
Knowles foreshadows the boys’ loss of innocence through the war, and their constant jumps from the tree. While getting ready for the war the boys practice and show off their skills on the tree by the Devon River. These jumps are done for fun yet the boys see them as a routine, something that has to be done. Knowles brings the theme of the loss of innocence in the novel for the first time by portraying Finny as the defender who gets the boys out of trouble by saying they had to jump out of the tree (22). This foreshadows how the innocence of the boys will be banished from themselves and their world. The tree also symbolizes the Forbidden Tree of Knowledge. Just like it is forbidden to eat the fruit, jumping from the tree was not allowed as well. By jumping from the tree the boys symbolically accept their loss of innocence, just like Adam and Eve accepted theirs.
The movie opens up with a scene of Caden waking up to an interview on the radio about a woman who begins to talk about the coming of the fall season. She states that,...
The forest represents freedom. There is no one in the forest to watch for misconduct, so people can do as they please. The wilderness calls to independent spirits such as Hester and Pearl.
There are numerous literary devices used in this song. One of the literary devices used is symbolism. The snowman that the narrator keeps referring to, symbolizes love. The love that the narrator has for her sister and how she’d do anything for her. Her loves her and just wants to be with her, no matter what they do. The empty rooms also symbolize the emptiness that the narrator feels without her sister. The rooms represent the space in her heart meant for her sister, but it’s empty because her sister isn’t there. The door separating the sisters symbolizes the defence mechanism that the narrator's sister puts up. The narrator is trying to get her sister to take that “wall” down so she can comfort her and help her in any way possible. The bicycle is a symbol of the journey that the narrator's sister is on. The journey that she must endure to break the repetitive cycle of her blocking her sister out. The clock is a countdown to when the narrator and her sister will finally break down the wall. It’s just a matter of time. In conclusion, this song represents family and a bond that never be broken. Even through rough times, family will always be by your
The lyrics of the song play a huge role in achieving the intended effect of this song. Through the lyrics, Lovato reflects on her own experiences and says she was “so ashamed, so confused...broken and bruised.” But, she clearly states that she overcame those struggles, and came back as a
The forest additionally symbolizes the relationship in which native serves as a place of empowerment for individuals. This also adds to those the themes. The forest is a symbol of Prynne and Dimmesdale’s empowerment in the truth, hope and love. Upon their meeting in the forest, both feel positively changed as qu...
... is a metaphor in many respects. It forces, or in some cases allows, characters to move on in their lives and let go of a past that they had held on to and nurtured for so long. Firs is the last character to speak in the play. He is a character of the past who has remained in the past and it is ironic that in the end he says “life has gone by as if I’d never lived,” because he is always telling stories about the old days. Firs’s assumed death and the cutting of the cherry orchard is clearly the release of the past because they are the major representations of that time. As the characters leave and take their separate paths, the success of their lives is unknown but there is a slight sense of opportunity and freedom for each of them. They can now continue their lives in present day. The Cherry Orchard is ultimately about remembering the past but living in the present.
The first stanza opens up with saying how the speaker was young and did not have a care in the world. The first line talks about him relaxing under an apple bough, which is an apple tree. He also goes on to explain in line two that he is as “happy as the grass was green” (2), which
...ches..." Stewart goes on and states how she believes that writing about her relationships is a child-like, immature thing for Swift to do, especially when the boy she is singing about is so blatantly obvious.