7 Years By The Danish Singer Lukas Forchhammer

The second stanza reflects on the past days which were not as bad as once thought to be. I especially relate to the lines of “How I wish we

The different groups of people within the poem represent the different stages of life. At the beginning of the poem it talks about a young boy and his dog and swimmers. Several lines down it talks about “young lovers” and then families.

On page 76 the entirety of the stanza is a happy tone of nostalgia. The whole stanza is the child remembering his life as a wonderful time filled with imagination and freedom. He is reminding the reader of how amazing his life was compared to his life now. Collins utilizes this tone to really ingrain in the reader that the kids younger life really was fantastic, and it sets of the reader to for a more dismal feeling when the next stanza comes around. This stanza is so exciting and it gets the reader to remember the extravagant stories they used to imagine with utter joy. This happiness is directly contrasted by the rest of the poem. Collins does a great job of distracting the reader and makes them almost forget about the sadness they read in the previous stanza so they get hit really hard with the sadness again. this is exactly how the child feels about growing up. In the final stanza the child says, “This is the beginning of sadness, I say to myself, as I walk through the universe in my sneakers.” (76). The child recognizes that he must grow up and let go of what he used to hold dear at younger ages. The boys feeling are expressed as laborious and distressed, the boy clearly does not want to grow up, yet he is extremely saddened by the fact that he has to. The reader shares the kids feeling of sadness because like

The poem itself is discussing a man's journey from birth to death and how all around him life is interpreted by material possessions. At the beginning of the first stanza, the sentences have been made very short and simple, as if to demonstrate the thoughts of a new born child. The first voice that the baby hears when he is born is Bobby Dazzler, one of Australia's first game shows. The very first thing that the baby

In alternative pop music, numerous people would mistake the song’s rhythm as a light and calming love song rather than recognizing the lyrics as meaningful. Although Hozier’s song seems to be a simple love song, it has a deeper meaning that encourages the listeners to think about relationships. The first part of the first stanza illustrates how the rhythm and the lyrics do not correspond with each other. Throughout Hozier’s song the rhythm is consistent, besides in the first stanza. The first part of the stanza is,

The first stanza begins with a strong statement: "Abortions will not let you forget." It shows the sorrow

The first stanza, which contains the son’s childish speech, is short, only three lines. However, by the stanza which contains the son’s angry talkback, the stanza is double in length, having four lines. Each line represents a literal level of maturity and growth that the son has gained. As time moves on, he is able to gain more and more experience in life. As his experience accumulates over time, so does his hostility. His terse, childish begging for his father to simply read another story turns to an angry speech about how he no longer beleievs in his father as an authority figure. Despite this, the son’s psyche changes back, as all this maturation is played out in the father’s head, and when he returns, he is back to his childish self, bu this stanza is the longest in the poem. This suggests that when someone is able to mature enough, they are able to comprehend more of the world than they did before, and are able to act

The second stanza is almost like the first in the fact that it appeals to the same senses. It talks about the actions and the feelings of the child. It describes how the child would wake and wait for his father to call him. The second stanza also describes the mood of the house in the line, "fearing the chronic angers of that house." Perhaps that line is

Stanza 2- The speaker is describing the poor guy and how she loves him more because of the way the poor guy treats her, really nice.

Religion is talked about multiple times in this song. First the song talks about how people think gay people “can be cured with some treatment and religion.” This talks about how people in society do not understand gays, and believe they can be changed by religion. When he says “God loves all his children,” I thought it was interested how he says love. He

Following the first stanza, the speaker goes on to address an unknown figure that is presumably an adult. By acknowledging the adult’s fault in discrediting the speaker’s experience as a child, the speaker therefore seems to assert their role as a naïve protagonist. Typically, it would be assumed that a child has no knowledge of the perils of growing up, however the speaker indicates that contrary to what adults believe, he is perfectly aware. The speaker states, “You tell me it is too early to be looking back/but that is because you have forgotten/the perfect simplicity of being one” (2.9-11). The first two

Lukas Graham is a well-known growing pop artist. The effort he puts into his music through writing and performing is centers him as one of America’s strongest songsters. It makes sense then, that much of his written verse is comparable and/or contrastable. While the two songs, “Mama Said” and “7 Years” have many similarities, there are still many differences.

Most of his songs are about the bad and good parts of his life. The first quote that shows this is, “I put the words and the melodies together. I am the music and I write the songs” This means that he is talking about his first song that he wrote.

shows that he feels that everything happened so fast that he didn’t have enough time to solve his problems also showing that regret theme of the song in wishing that he did things differently “yesterday”. Another great quote from the song is him saying “Oh, I believe in yesterday.” because it's pretty much saying that

Seven years is a song that was wrote by the Danish singer Lukas Forchhammer, lead singer in the band Lukas Graham. The song was released June 6th in 2015. A billboard writer describes the band’s sound by stating, “On record Forchhammer can often sound like a perpetually smiling Bruno Mars mixed with a bit of Ed Sheeran, but in person he has an unmistakable wrong-side-of-the-tracks ­swagger.”(Duerden) It was released as a single that would end up being the hit song on their first album. The lyrics of the song are about the nostalgia from growing up. The main chorus of the song takes place at different age every time, depending on the verse. After the 4th verse the song changes the tense and starts to talk about his present life, what the future may hold. At this point Instead of saying “Once I was” he changes it to “soon I’ll be.” Graham describes the songs structure by saying, “it’s a strange song in the sense it doesn’t have a hook, and it doesn’t have like a fixed structure. It just has this folky vibe that progresses through the ages and lets you grow with the song.”(Forchhammer)