Harold Crick's Song 'Whole Wide World'

The artist wants the audience to feel his substantial affection for Delilah, and how it is unchanging even though they are separated by distance. He appeals to the audience’s emotions of admiration, compassion, and longing for another person. The artist does this by singing about his extensive love for Delilah, which may lead people to think of someone they themselves care deeply about, or an example of love in their life.

In stanzas 4-7, Howe continues to describe her intimate relationship with the girls. There are connections in the words: kissed,

The song is written about an attractive woman that appeals highly to Robert Plant. He speaks of the way she moves and her physical appearance in a very sexual

Your first thought is the love between the couple is toxic and lethal yet, he cannot resist his partner. But, really it is a reference to Cocaine. Cocaine is given a female voice. He uses personification by bringing the drug to life, where it can communicate with him and become part of his life. He knows that this “girl” meaning, Cocaine is going to be the death of him. While in use of Cocaine he gets numb. “But at least we’ll both be beautiful and stay forever young/ This I know, (yeah) this I know” (3-4). You say again, that he is singing about how the love is so very satisfying. But he is actually meaning that his desire for this young and beautiful woman makes him feel good. He feels as if he is invincible when he has her. Even though he seems to be aware of the consequences that come with feeling young and beautiful; with the use of Cocaine. “She told me, ‘Don’t worry about it.’/ She told me, ‘Don’t worry no more.’/ We both knew we can’t go without it/ She told me you’ll

The last line of stanza is sung as “So watch my back and keep the blade i think it got you laid.” This means instead of their family hurting them they should watch their back and by doing so it will be good overall which means the laid part.

Arnold Friend picks up on this instability within Connie and uses it to his advantage. He tries to make her feel loved and wanted by him. He even had “Seen [her] that night and thought, that’s the one, yes sir. [He] never needed to look anymore” (Line 23). He is proving to her that she is perfect in everyway that he imagines. He is absolutely sure that he will not find anyone better than her. He plays to her emotions from the excerpt. He wants her to feel as if she is loved, and filling whatever emotional voids are present within her. He wants her to feel loved and accepted whenever she is around him. He is using the power of emotional appeals, because he is doing his best to show her that he loves everything about her. He wants her to feel safe, loved, and protected whenever around him. He wants her to feel safe because after he assured her that he’ll keep his promise he proceeds to “...[resumes] his erect position and [tries] to force his shoulders back. He sounded like a hero in a movie…”(lines 36-37). He uses this position in order to portray to her that he will protect her. He will guard her and make sure that she will make him happy. This is a fantastic emotional appeal because he is playing to the dream that he is a hero bound to fulfill all of her desires. This in turn allows for the girl to have the emotions to love and to trust

In this world lies darkness, but so does light. Wherever there is there is evil, there is good. Colum McCann‘s Let the Great World Spin is the manifestation of good vs. evil.

The first chapter of “Let the Great World Spin”, by Colum McCann creates a sense of reuniting. People of all different backgrounds are coming together to watch one man do the unthinkable. “Occasionally, I drop a teacup to shatter on the floor on purpose … Someday, perhaps, that cup will come together” (Hannibal, NBC). The teacup represents a society, breaking free from unity, until some extraordinary occurrence, where the teacup gathers itself back up. McCann’s use of concrete diction, as well as his frequent use of asyndeton accentuates the fragmented tone, and demonstrates how a remarkable event gathers the shards of society.

Incidentally the song can also relate to the physical and mental abuses that the characters have endured. To illustrate, “You don’t know the half of the abuse”. On the subject of abuse, it has been noted that in the book,

Similarly, the 3rd verse is more relatable than the 2nd verse and shows a more personal touch in which the songwriter mentions that she used to express her emotions freely, but was critiqued by others. The song ends with the

John Donne, in this stanza I feel becomes more intimate and uses alliteration and much more poetic techniques. At the beginning of the second stanza, I would assume that the girl has got up and left him. "O stay,

In this line, the man is breaking down the barrier of her morals by reasoning that he has been cheated on before, and has experienced how painful it is to have the innocence of a relationship “die screaming” (11). Therefore, the man

he tries to convince her to seize the day. And because of this love he felt

This other question that came to mind when dissecting this song was, why did the almost lover have to leave? If he never truly wanted to leave her. Looking a bit more into the other two facts that were covered earlier. One of which was that he was bilingual, and the other was that she can’t look at the ocean without thinking about him. When taking these into

Analyzing the word, "beautiful" in this stanza, one should perceive that she is not actually singing about the outside of her, but what she consists of emotionally and mentally on the inside. She reveals that her thoughts and emotions are of worth and value and they are of her opinion. They are consumed through her, and no one else and if anyone disagrees, she does not take that into affect. Her diction is actually pretty precise. To quote a famous cliché, beauty is not skin deep. She explains that the beauty is the sentiment.