The first lyrics that I’ve chosen is from the pop song “Stereo Love.” It was released in 2009, by Romanian DJ Edward Maya, ft Vika Jigulina. The words that carry the most importance and reoccur are love and heart. Stereo love is a love and dance song, and it’s extremely upbeat and emotional. Due to these reasons, the words heart and love carry much importance. The word order could be taken as very ordinary, however the phrases are unexpected. Despite the song being in english, it’s not english native which makes the word choice very different and interested. For example, the lyrics in some lines are, “I need you more than air when I'm not with you”, and “Can you get to my thought?” The song doesn’t use conventional syntax, which in return makes the lyrics more addictive along with the music. The lines “your smile is a beautiful lie” and “I can fix all those lies” contain irony and personification in a way. How can a smile be a lie? And how can one fix lies? These questions could pop up if one was studying the lyrics of these particular song. However, the listeners pay less attention to the lyrics and just enjoy whatever the lyrics contain. The imagery in the lyrics is also used in a very creative way. The imagery in the song includes human interaction. Some examples of the imagery from the song would be, “my heart is in pain but I'm smiling for you”, and “when I see you baby, I just don't want to let go.” …show more content…
The second lyrics that I’ve chose is from a U.K.
hip hop song “Six Paths.” It was released in 2006 by Santan Dave. The most important word in the lyrics is Path, because it refers to all the ways he’s life could’ve ended up. The story of how Dave grew up is embedded in this lyrically strong song. Words like feds have a negative connotation in the song. The word order is somewhat rhythmic, however, mostly conventional. The perfect example of this would be this
verse: “Look, man just talk like I never took risks In the field like I never took risks with squares When I put the dare in Santan and the Santan in Santander Wait, look, man get aired.” The end of “santander” is made to sound like “dare”, which somewhat rhymes with “air.” The song alludes to many animes and tv shows in the lyrics, and relates the characteristics of some of the characters to his life story. An example of imagery from the lyrics would be the lines: “I was 16 with a grand in my jeans and all the same clothes that you wear in your vid Walk in a party see a barbie looking nice I just give her a smile and a wink.” The third lyrics that I’ve chosen is also from the same artist, Santan Dave. The title of the song is Samantha and it was released in 2017. The word that carries that most importance in the song is Samantha. The song relates to a girl named “Samantha”, and the lyrics depicts the way in which Dave will show Samantha how he can be gangster or a gentleman depending on the situation. Some examples of the use of figure of speech in this lyrics would be simile in the line, “Fingers lookin' like a firearm.” In that like fingers are being compared to a firearm. An example of imagery in the lyrics would be the lines, “and man walked in, yo, it's not what it looks like Give man high five, kiss her goodnight.” These lines depict a scene that could be fiction or nonfiction.
The movie Loving takes place in Caroline County, Virginia, with a white construction worker who falls in love with an African American woman. They both find out that they are going to have a child together and make the decision to get married. But, in this time, both of them find out that they both can’t get married due to the laws in the time. African Americans and Whites don’t normally be with each other or even fall in love for that matter. Both fight for their rights to be together not just in the state of Virginia, but for everyone in all states.
The song does have good rhyme scheme, which is a very important poetic element. Zac Brown band writes, “Well I was raised up beneath the shade of a Georgia Pine / and that's home you know / sweet tea, pecan pie, and homemade wine, where the peaches grow…” (5-7). Every other line rhymes with the previous. This is a good poetic element to have, considering rhyme is commonly related to many great songs and poems.
Charlotte Lennox’s opinion towards love is expressed clearly in her piece “A Song.” The poem’s female speak...
Upton Sinclair, the author of The Jungle, wrote this novel to unveil the atrocious working conditions and the contaminated meat in meat-packing workhouses. It was pathos that enabled his book to horrify hundreds of people and to encourage them to take a stand against these meat-packing companies. To obtain the awareness of people, he incorporated a descriptive style to his writing. Ample amounts of imagery, including active verbs, abstract and tangible nouns, and precise adjectives compelled readers to be appalled. Durham, the leading Chicago meat packer, was illustrated, “having piles of meat... handfuls of dried dung of rats...rivers of hot blood, and carloads of moist flesh, and soap caldrons, craters of hell.” ( Sinclair 139). His description
After reviewing this week’s episodes of serial, and given our topic, I found that the Rhetorical Appeals are directly linked to the court cases. These Rhetorical Appeals (Ethos, Pathos, and Logos), are used throughout both cases. From Jay’s case, it’s clear that Pathos and Ethos are two main elements supporting his defense. However in Adnan’s case, Logos was the prevalent appeal when defending his innocence.
American Pie is a song that is a very slow and deliberate song with a lot of thought put into it. This is a song that has over 850 lyrics that play for 8:30, the longest song ever to be listed as the Number one song on top hits charts. All these lyrics don’t just have the meaning of the individual words themselves, they paint a picture for the audience listening about what life was like and the events that transpired in the 1950-70’s, along with how Don McLean interpreted them. The lyrics of this song appeal to the youth of that timeframe in rhetorical ways of Pathos, Ethos, Doxa. Pathos is shown to try and emotionally connect with the audience; Ethos is used to show he knows what he is talking about by relating his real life stories and knowledge back into the essay, and lastly, Doxa is used very often in this in the aspect that Don was a huge Buddy Holly fan and he felt a deep connection to him.
The article “ In Defense of “Trap Queen” as our generation’s Greatest Love Song” by Hanif Abdurraqib, who is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio, writes about todays modern “love song’s” and their meanings. Hanif believes that todays modern generation love songs are not the same as they once were, because the meaning of love has evolved over time. Love songs have a different kind of passion then the once did, they have evolved the passion of love towards each other to a whole different level of passion. The meaning of a love song has changed its not all about only love towards someone, its changed to the love for the life style they live with the success they 've made to be where they are. This life style involving money, drugs. and sex, which is very blunt about how they describe it, is what “love” is to them and the young crowd
Christopher Brian Bridges is an African American rapper that goes by the alias Ludacris. His genre of music is mostly Hip-Hop and R&B. In 2006 he released his fifth album called Release Therapy. From that album he released his third single called Runaway Love. He wrote the song with Douglas Davis, Jamal Jones, Richard Walters, and Keri Hilson. The song featured Mary J Blidge, and Keri Hilson who assisted with the background vocals.
Love can come at unexpected times, through current situations or through memories, and they will always have that permanent effect on us, just like a tattoo. Because of strange stanza breaks, unusual imagery, and elongated punctuation, the reader can determine the deeper meaning of the poem. The two-lined stanzas signify short-lived loves, and the stanza breaks depict the break-ups and passing of loved ones. The imagery of skulls and the metaphor that love is a tattoo shows that love never deteriorates. And lastly, the poem is only two sentences long, so this shows the fluidity and never ending power of love. Too often people take advantage of love, but what they aren’t aware of is that their experiences with each and every person they have loved tattoo their mind to make them into who they are, much like a tattoo permanently inks one’s skin to commemorate a
Song lyrics have set off a great generation of our leisure time than reading poetic devices, therefore song lyrics are better than poetic devices. Song lyrics have dropped numerous lines that attach to us now a days and make us listen to the line over and over unlike poetic devices. Song Lyrics have so much meaning by word choice and by relations.”Mr. Rager” by Kid Cudi, is about people fed up with society and plan on taking a journey. “Dreams” by Edgar Allen Poe, is about a man who dreams of a greater life. Mr. Rager, the song by Scott Cudi, has a better meaning than Dreaming, the poem by Edgar Allen Poe, by personification, allusion, and symbolism.
For many of us, one of the most accurate and effective ways to express the feelings that really matter to us is through music. We don’t only grow to attached to songs that are catchy, but also those with lyrics that we can relate to. It is not uncommon to feel like sometimes, artists can convey the way we feel better than we could ourselves. The storybook-like lines you read at the start of this page are a collection of lyrics
According to Oxford Dictionary, stereotype is a preconceived and oversimplified idea of the characteristics which typify a person or situation (Oxford). But in reality it is more like a subtle form of bias, such as those based on people's gender, race or occupation. For example, Americans are generally considered to be arrogant and materialistic while Asians, on the other hand, are expected to be shrewd but reserved. Obviously, not all Americans are arrogant and not all Asians are shrewd. So, if one just assumes what a person is like and don't look at each person as an individual, he or she is likely to make errors in estimates of a person's character. Such biases are easily ignored, yet are a fact of life. These biases can affect how people see others, as well as themselves, which may lead to unexpected consequences. Thus, stereotyping can influence the communication and understanding between people, usually in a negative way. To examine the side effect brought by stereotyping, I will go through Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Duras’ The Lover and analyze the roles played by stereotype. The protagonists of both books are set in a background, to which they do not originally belong or where is colonized by foreign invaders. Therefore, stereotype becomes a mutual theme and plays an important role in these two books.
In David Sheff’s book “Beautiful Boy” he utilizes descriptive diction, allusions to other works, and vivid imagery to recreate the experiences he’s gone through during his son’s addiction, times in recovery, and relapses.
The harmony of the group is perfectly shown in this song. When a person hears it for the first time it sounds like one person sings it. The song opens with hope, “Helplessly Hoping”, that even in despair, there is hope. The word choice in the song is evocative and elegant, but it can have different meanings. The words are full of mystery, and the alliteration can make one’s spirit uplifting. The song is a non-verbal dialogue between a guy who loves a girl, waiting for her, and wonders about her love for him. The guy is being her harlequin, who hovers close to her, so she could notice him. The guy sees the girl’s good qualities, and true and kind spirit she has. Spirit is considered something that flows in the air, so that is why he wished he could fly and grasp her.
“Music not only changes our mood, but it also changes the way we think and our perception of the world”- Anonymous. Music is like a piano master who plucks at the keys on our personal pianos, and bends them to their own whim. We are all but puppets. This can be observed in the song “A Thousand Years”, where beauty reaches its peak. “ A Thousand Years” is a song in which a lover expresses her love for another, only to be weighed down by a tiny doubt of acceptance. This songs has some reference to the love story of Bella and Edward from The Twilight Saga. Every lyric of this song radiates the feeling of love. In fact the lines “Darling, don’t be afraid I have loved you” and “I’ll love you for a thousand more” directly address the emotion of