Fast Car, composed by Tracy Chapman in 1988, is an contemporary song which has soared through the charts for decades. Chapman sings her emotional and imaginative past life, she tells the story of hoping to escape the place she lives, furthermore to make a better life and the challenges she will have to accomplish. Through out the song, Chapman effectively communicates with her audience Lyrics within the first stanza, describes that finding something better in life is the reason to continue with this journey and find that better life. Lyrics like ‘I want a ticket to anywhere’,’any place is better’ and ‘finally see what it means to be living’ describes her needs to get out of her current town and start a new life. The adverb ‘anywhere’ and ‘anyplace’, allows the audience to imagine of where this place could be. ‘Starting from zero, got nothing to lose’ describes that she is ready to move on, hence not having anything worthwhile, she cannot go anywhere but forward. The third stanza is the main reason she wants to leave town, as she wants a life not like her parents. The stanza is the only verse that does not begin with ‘you got …show more content…
The vast contrast of her hoping for a better life, now her strong view of the situation that she is currently living. Chapman's boyfriend and father have very similar habits, her boyfriend starts following her fathers pathways. Earlier within the song she stated ‘my old man’s got a problem he lives with the bottle’, this synecdoche technique is used as she isn't describing the bottle, describing what is in the bottle. Later on in the relationship, Chapman and her boyfriend have had kids, the lyrics ‘you stay out drinking late at the bar, see more of your friend that you do your kids’, the original dilemma she tried to run away from the beginning, it reinforced her that this is a repetitive cycle that is secretly following
...r sister saying how she'll have to help take care of her kid and how she'll probably have twins. The sixth stanza talks about how her mother comforted her and said that her sister will take on all her chores. The seventh stanza is her sister complaining of how many chores she's already doing as is. The last stanza talks about how Leda just "takes it easy" and doesn't have to do anything.
“So boy, don't you turn back./Don't you set down on the steps/'Cause you finds it's kinder hard./Don't you fall now --/For I'se still goin', honey,/I'se still climbin',/And life for me ain't been no crystal stair” (Line 14-20 Norton, 2028), is the loudest part of the poem. It speaks volumes on how she truly viewed her struggles. . The mother states “ I’se been a-climbin’ on” (Hughes & Rampersad Line 9, 60), which illustrates her dedication to becoming better. She lets it be known that her struggle is yet to be over, but she does not care how hard it will be, she is going to make it. She details the pain she endured: “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair/
The first stanza describes the depth of despair that the speaker is feeling, without further explanation on its causes. The short length of the lines add a sense of incompleteness and hesitance the speaker feels towards his/ her emotions. This is successful in sparking the interest of the readers, as it makes the readers wonder about the events that lead to these emotions. The second and third stanza describe the agony the speaker is in, and the long lines work to add a sense of longing and the outpouring emotion the speaker is struggling with. The last stanza, again structured with short lines, finally reveals the speaker 's innermost desire to "make love" to the person the speaker is in love
...bolism of colors, her growing fondness of "Chameleon Lenny," right up to her first puff of the cigarette, it is evident that she will not be able to overcome her temptations and be drawn back into the world of drugs and alcohol, only more intense this time (93). She has seen the sober life and she isn't happy with it. Her cigarette smoking and drinking, although not illegal, will still conform to her downfall. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. At the beginning of the story we see hope for someone who brings cookies to her AA meetings, who sits and drinks coffee while her daughter is at dance practice, but unfortunately in the end, "There is only this infected blue enormity elongating defiantly" (107). Once an addict, always an addict, "When the glass was finished she would pour another. When the bottle was empty, she would buy another" (107).
With her longing for something more than what she gets on an everyday basis, her growing fondness of Lenny right up to her first drink and drug use, and the symbolism of the blue and green, it is evident that she will not be able to overcome her temptations and be drawn back into the world of drugs and alcohol, only more intense this time. She has already started doing drugs, drinking, and smoking again. She has seen the sober life for way too long and she isn't happy with it. Her cigarette smoking and drinking, although not illegal, will still conform do her downfall. "When the glass was finished she would pour another. When the bottle was empty, she would buy another"(107).
The second stanza immediately shows symbolism starting with the first few words. Line 10 begins with, “Once the renegade flesh was gone.” The use of the phrase, “renegade flesh” within this poem symbolizes the person who was causing the hurting. Renegade involves synonyms such as: traitor, deserter, and rebel, thus contributing to the meaning behind the phrase. Then throughout the rest of the stanza, the woman resumes talking about her time slowly going by until she begins to completely give up on
In romantic words, the poet expresses how much she thinks of love. She stated it was clear that she would not trade love for peace in times of anguish. Shift: after line 6 of the poem, there is a shift. In the beginning of the poem, the poet outlines the list of things that love cannot provide for the people who are willing to die. The narrator outlines the basic necessities like food, shelter, and health.
In this stanza there is a question asked to the question reveals that the girl is puzzled about the lord is after her. This suggests that she is aware that he has different motives, rather than love and romance. This also shows that she knows the compliment is false and just a way of seducing her into bed. The second stanza is where the great lord isn’t so “great” anymore. He lured and tricked her into going to his palace home.
On the front fender of the car is the red “Man the Flying Saucers” which was described as something teenagers the year prior would say. Fear is all Connie can feel as her dream world is crashing around her and the music is gone. She becomes sentient and realizes her situation with a sense of maturity that scares her “she cried out for her mother, she felt her breath start jerking back and forth in her lungs as if it was something Arnold Friend was stabbing her with again and again with no tenderness” (Oates).
On the third stanza, she pretty much saying that it is not her fault that she had a abortion and she has no choice but to do it. “Since anyhow you are dead, Or rather, or instead, You were never made” (Gwendolyn Brooks) she making excuses of what she had done.
In the opening verse of the song, the speaker discusses the need to see her childhood home at least once more before moving on with her life. She shares with the current homeowner some of her experiences while growing up in the house. For instance, she says, “I know they say you can’t go home again, but I just had to come back one last time.” This shows that the speaker realizes that returning “home” is going to be a different experience than it was when she lived there, but she cannot resist the temptation of a final visit to the “house”. The speaker says that “Up those stairs in that little back bedroom, is where I did my homework and learned to play guitar. And I bet you didn’t know, under that live oak, my favorite dog is buried in the yard.” This indicates some of the significant memories the speaker has of her time in the house, such as honing her...
In the first stanza, first line; I saw two trees embracing, this means that there is a couple that is in love. In the second and third line we see that the male is weaker “one leaned on the other, as if to throw her down” and in the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh line we notice that the female has the strength, willpower and is dominating. In the second stanza, line one, two and three we see that the female being dominant makes the male feel broken and intimidated. In line four “the most wind-warped, you could see”, hear we see that there is a major problem between the two.
In general, I understand that this was about wanting something more. Needing help, or wanting to give help to someone. A woman who lost at love, and her heart is hardening, but someone is asking don’t give up, not yet. This is what I could see clearly and understand. As for her use of words and imagery I could see the sparrows and them soaring. “Whipping their wings down the sky Through midair–(Carson)”
For Thao, the car is a symbol of his newfound independence. Automoblies are significant representations of the American dream because of “the unrestrained capacity to move,” which became equated early in the American cultural imagination with personal reinvention and self-determination. Those who could control their own movement were deemed self-sufficient, independent agents” (Heitmann & Uhlman). For Thao, he is no longer restrained by the gang to follow his dreams. The last scene in the movie, at 1:50:00, is the true embodiment of the American Dream.