Figurative Language In The Song S. O 'S'

Lauryn Hill’s poem “Motives and Thoughts” sheds particular light on the follies of society including overlooking the evil motives of its leaders and even its citizens through the use of poetic devices and figurative language. This 51-line poem touches on the subject of conspiracy and requires the reader to take a look at herself to determine what her motivation is for engaging in types of activity to gain power or desires and to look at the motives and thoughts of the leaders whom she follows. Hill uses several poetic devices and figurative language to enhance the meaning of her poem by placing emphasis on certain words to capture her audience’s attention including repetition, rhyme, allusion, metaphors, paradox, and oxymoron to reveal the central issues of deception while uncovering minor themes of downfall due to pride and spirituality. Hill uses allusion and metaphors throughout

In “The Beginning of the Song That Diverts the Heart” the metaphor is actually the whole poem. A girl is calling her lover to come to a field and trap birds with her. We can see it is a metaphor for making love through some of the imagery she uses. For example, she mentions for her lover to “hear the sound of my call” (77). Through analyzation this means

In the song Never Again ,you hear multiple parts where the songwriter redirects you towards the holocaust. For example, “moving targets who walk with the star on their sleeve.” During the intro, a man speaks Hebrew and it sounds like a prayer. The author also uses figurative language to emphasize the importance of what happened in the holocaust. He quotes things like, “never again shall we march like sheep to the slaughter…” in addition to, “ stripped of our culture, robbed of our name…” by saying these things he stresses the tragedy of taking orders, and before long, dying like sheep. In the second quote he causes it to be known, how the men, women, and children who received a number appeared as cattle to the authoritarians, not human, nevertheless,

The song “Brown Eyed Girl” by Van Morrison is about a man who is in love with a brown eyed girl. The song is full of figurative language and various tones.

effective because it allows the reader to envision the workspace. “Grammar is not just a pain in

Rat Kiley had told a story of a girl that was shipped to Vietnam and had stayed with them at the camp. Mary Anne Bell had begun as a normal innocent girl that slowly delved into herself and became one with the land disappearing into the forest.

Once I was able to associate these words to emotions and issues present in everyday life, the poem started to make me feel sad. I began thinking about all of the emotions and feelings that everyone hides as they go about life. For example, how the waitress I see once a week may have an eating disorder, or how the singer I look up to just lost her son, or the businessman who got laid off today. Everyone has their own personal battle that they carry everywhere, at any given moment. This explains why the setting is so plain, since the internal struggles people face affect them even at a bus stop. While each person waits, the waitress may be thinking about how much skinnier the person next to her is. The singer could be remembering when she held her baby. And the business man could be planning how to break the news to his wife. No matter how small, everyone experiences a type of trauma or bad experience, and this poem seemed to show what happens when these emotions become bottled up. No one can help each other because they are so stuck within their own issues. The difficulty helping others reminded me of the idea of having to take care of yourself before being able to take care of others.

The Weary Blues, written by Langston Hughes and published in 1926, won Hughes his first poetry prize. Hughes is a well-known African American poet who often wrote about the struggles for African Americans during the Harlem Renaissance, he uses figurative language in the poem to describe loneliness and despair, and the relationship between the speaker and performer, in order to make the reader better understand the blues.

This theme is brought through the song by showing multiple literary devices. Such as “I'm the one at sail, I’m the master of my sea”. This metaphor shows the realization and empowerment that oneself can give in a depressing situation. This simile “Falling like ashes to the ground, Hoping my feelings they would drown” compares his feeling of sadness and depression to ashes, and wanting them to drown and vanish, from his life. This line, “All the hate that you’ve heard has turned your spirit to a dove” explains how all of the hate that he has experienced and gone through has turned his feelings around, and decided to look on the bright side of things. Personally I think this is a great

My thesis statement, it is the words that people say that gives you strength when you are at your crossroad. And today I stand, I run, and I walk for those who cannot. But let me pause for my essay because I will be derelant In my duties and negligent in task if I didn’t say to my sister in the audience who last year got a stroke and somehow got through all of that and now she’s reaping heaven on her employees. Big sister you are my warrior. Give hear a hand, I might not have a ride home today. Now, to the body of the essay. When I came to Cambridge... You all know how essays go. We are going to get to that. When I came to Cambridge College I was nervous, but they accept me for who I was, a 24 year old military veteran.

No matter what lifestyle you’re born into you can still be a better person. Some people are born into terrible lives and some lives become worse. In The Outsiders by S.E. Hilton most of the gang’s lives become worse. The gang faces the other gang and murder takes over gang member’s lives. They face other gang’s and the police. They even face the chance of death and their own families not caring. However, even with all of these issues so to speak, the gang still sticks together and lives their same lifestyle. In The Outsiders the author uses figurative language, both sides of the characters, and a lot of description to show how the characters still push on through tough times.

In the memoir “Mississippi Solo”, author Eddy Harris uses figurative language to share his experiences at the Mississippi River. First he uses personification when he writes, “...the river was talking to me” (Harris page 138, line 14)This is a personification because the author is giving the river human characteristics of speaking. A second example would be when he says, “...sky split open...loud crash...splintery crackle of lightning”(Harris page 139, lines 62-63) This is a figure of speech because the way the author wrote the words helps readers visualize the sky and imagine hearing the crash and the crackle of lightning. Eddy Harris uses figurative language frequently in the telling of his story.

William James, an American philosopher and psychologist once said “believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” Life, regardless of how close it lies to death, is worth keeping. The poem “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”, by Dylan Thomas is a son’s appeal to a fading father. He shows his father that men from all walks of life confront death, however, they still war against it. Thomas uses figurative language to classify men into four different categories to persuade his father to realize that a life, regardless of how it was lived, should be fought for.

The Song “Beverly Hills” by Weezer is a hit song that relates to lower income individuals striving to become successful and wealthy. The singer conveys this message by using similes in order to truly explain how he wishes to be living. To start, the singer says “Rolling like a celebrity,” relating to how many view celebrities as very rich people who live lavish lifestyles. This statement infers that people who do not have large sums of money envy celebrities who make millions and are equipped with many luxuries that most do not have. Furthermore, the singer then says “I wanna live a life like that,” referring to prior lyrics about how wealthy people are pampered with housemaids and many other people tending to their needs. The singer is being

There are many literary devices in this song, and the first one is onomatopoeia. Scotty Sire writes, “WHOOPDIE DOO” and, “HAHA”. These are onomatopoeias because they are words are sounds associated with words. Secondly, the lyrics, “I’m always so sad the littlest things get me upset or mad my life’s pretty good, no I don’t have it bad” are rhymes. The words, sad, mad, and bad, all rhyme, and are adjectives that tell how Scotty feels. He uses these words because he wants the listener to know how he feels right away, without having to think more about what the word means. Additionally, the lyric “I’m just a baby” is a metaphor, because Scotty is not actually a baby, he just compares himself to one because he is sad and cries a lot. The next literary