Hotel California Poetic Devices

To start off, the first stanza in her song represents a sense of how unavoidable change is and how the confusion of the bond combined with the stress of the blame game can lead to a doomed

She tries to relate to sex through popular music that romanticizes relationships and life. The short reveals how it affects Connie when she is listening to a popular radio station, “…bathed in a glow of slow-pulsed joy that seemed to rise mysteriously out of the music itself and lay languidly about the airless little room” (Oates 424). Additionally, Connie felt her date with Eddie was similar to “the way it was in movies and promised in songs”(Oates 424). She felt she was living the dream and was beginning to relate to this sexualized, romantic media. In Marie Mitchell and Olesen Urbanski’s literary review of the story, they state “the recurring music then, while ostensibly innocuous realistic detail, is in fact, the vehicle of Connie's seduction and because of its intangibility, not immediately recognizable as such” (1). However, Arnold Friend was quick to remind her of her young age and innocence at the end of the story.

The words used by Bessie in this song set up a platform for her tone and the attitude of the story. The lines she uses are chalked full of images and other elements including phrases with double meanings. Some of the words in the lines she uses have literal meanings as well as more subtle referenced meanings. There were two particular examples of messages with an underlying tone dealing with intimacy. The first is when she says, “Bought me a coffee grinder that’s the best one I could find,” which implies finding a man that best serves her needs/desires. This line is followed by, “Oh he could grind my coffee, cause he had a brand new grind,” which the audience is led to believe refers to her being satisfied with the new man. The next example of her word choice creating a hint of a sexual tone begins with the line, “He’s a deep sea diver with a stroke that can’t go wrong,” and ends with her saying, “He can stay at the bottom and his wind holds out so long.” This is a pretty strong example of intimate innuendo. She uses words set up in a type of context that makes them mean something other than their literal meaning. Although what she’s saying doesn’t directly reflect it, this stanza refers to the intimate acts between her and her new lover, symbolized by the new grinder.

Lee’s writing is littered with descriptive and flowery visuals that truly capture both the environment and his emotions. In one such case, he recalls an evening where he “[stared] at the brightest star, viewing it not so much on this night as a beacon, something [he] wanted to believe would lead [he] out of this dark tunnel, but instead as a place [he’d] rather be” (155). His juvenile wistfulness is tangible in the words and the reader can almost feel the chill of the night air. He continues, wishing to be “anywhere but here…[wishing to have] been born anywhere but here.” (155). His yearning twists the heart with sympathy for his lonesome and pitiable plight. This moment is but a minute fraction of the incredibly intimate tale that Lee

The lyrics of a song often have no substance and a clear example would be any Britney Spears song. The lyrics of “All Falls Down” are very deep. They talk about the ideal situation in life; We should go to school, get a good job and make money to buy what we want. The lyrics then ask, what if this doesn’t happen? This is prevalent in the first verse. “She has no idea what she doing in college. That major that she majoring, it don’t make no money.” The song questions these everyday values because we focus so much on these things, we don’t realize there are more important things in life such as life itself. Even Kanye admits that he spent money at Jacob’s Jewellery store before he thought about a house. “I went to Jacob with

Adding on to that, Connie’s shortfall that rock music has molded her has come to light when Arnold Friend gives sexual advances to her. Joyce Carol Oates shows this by writing, “It was the same program that was playing inside the house. “Bobby King?” she said. “I listen to him all the time. I think he’s great.” “He’s kind of great,” Connie said reluctantly.” “Listen, that guy’s great. He knows where the action is.” (p.3-para.2). This shows how Connie feels shocked that Arnold was also listening to the same music as she was when she was inside the house last time. Since she was incompetent in realizing how teenagers interpret the music than adult figures, Connie is vulnerable when Arnold threatens her to come to him because of the rock music that is being allotted to teenagers. To sum it up, the sexual song lyrics and the image of rock music that is normally played and embraced in the American culture has influenced Connie, a teenager, physically and mentally; therefore, she is taken advantage of by Arnold because of her immaturity and youth.

In the first verse of the introduction of the song, imagery is used for the audience to imagine what exactly is being told. As almost as if it was a setting in a play or a scene in a movie. In the first verse the first two set of lines says, “On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair. Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air.” (Eagles, Lines 1-2). One can already imagine the speaker driving down a dark desert highway, with his windows rolled down perhaps, and smelling the warm air full of desert flowers, or maybe he is smelling marijuana in the air. This could be because colitas is Spanish slang for a bud of cannabis, but it could also mean desert flowers, (Philpot). These first two lines already sets the mood of a restless traveler who needs a place to stay for the night after a long day of driving. It also hints that there could possibly be drugs or other temptations in this song considering colitas

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

In the fourth stanza, Clark uses imagery to talk about segregation. She also uses the simile, “I-40 bisected the black community like a tourniquet of concrete,” which means they cut off the flow of traffic and really segregated the black community from everything else. Also in this stanza, the violence of the 60’s was shown through the imagery of the lines stating, “Ambulance siren driving over the house that called 911, diminishing howl in the distance,

The money ebing the motive for mostly everything in life. Then in the third line of the refrain we see the word "she", hinting at soem type of stripper, or possible a "Pro". Next lines after are just a reassurance from the weeknd bascically saying, "Great job, keep on going" while recongnizing that what shes doing is a difficult task to master and stay ahead with.

Another great example of Gilliam 's use of imagery is the repeated chorus “Swimming in money”. ( Owens.) With this line Gilliam to is not only appealing to the current popular rap culture, which is predominantly made up of songs talking about money and the subsequent use of it, but is also mocking said culture, himself included. Gilliam almost appears to be at loss for what he should do with this money, as he comments on Which automatically makes your mind think of a bathtub full of money or cash. But what I really think he 's saying is that he has so much money he doesn 't know what to do with it, evidenced by the lines “They all take the money for granted. But don 't want to work for it tell me now, isn 't it funny? Nah”. ( Owens.) A final great example of imagery is when Gilliam raps about “Having dreams that I’m folding cake”, ( Owens.) a scenario that could take many forms. Although initially many people would hear as a relatively straightforward idea, Gilliam wanting cake, there is a much deeper meaning behind this line. Gilliam grew up poor, and as shown in the famous (yet misquoted) line by Marie Antoinette, cake is oftentimes seen as a delicacy afforded to only the rich. This line in particular sets up the main theme of “Me, Myself and I”, which is Gallium 's determination to make it on his own.

The album commences chronologically to the novel, where the protagonist is overlooking Innsmouth’s dank harbour. The Great Old Ones project this dejected environment in ‘The Shadow over Innsmouth’ (the song) by adopting a bleak guitar tone where Benjamin Guerry’s dark vocals are free to echo around the curious corners of the seaport. The panicked riffs halfway through shift into more dominant territories that, in a way, foreshadow the impending revelations our protagonist will consequently face during his

Sinatra's intonation, precisely clipped, yet full and flowing, gave a deeper meaning to the simple lyrics -- "In the wee small hours of the morning/while the whole wide world is fast asleep/you lie awake, and think about the girl...." -- it was like so many of his classics, a song that evoked loneliness and sensuality, and when blended with the dim light and the alcohol and nicotine and late-night needs, it became a kind of airy aphrodisiac. Undoubtedly the words from this song, and others like it, had put millions in the mood, it was music to make love by, and doubtless much love had been made by it all over America at night in cars, while the batteries burned down, in cottages by the lake, on beaches during balmy summer evenings, in secluded parks and exclusive penthouses and furnished rooms, in cabin cruisers and cabs and cabanas -- in all places where Sinatra's songs could be heard were these words that warmed women, wooed and won them, snipped the final thread of inhibition and gratified the male egos of ungrateful lovers; two generations of men had been the beneficiaries of such ballads, for which they were eternally in his debt, for which they may eternally hate him. Nevertheless here he was, the man himself, in the early hours of the morning in

The song “Mind Reader” by Dustin Lynch released in 2014 on his second album. To sum up the song, it is about a girl that knows exactly what to do to make this guy go crazy over her. This girl knows everything from how to wear her hair too what jeans this guy likes. It seems like she is a “Mind Reader” because she doesn't even know the guy but it seems like she does. “How'd you know to wear your hair like that? How'd you know to turn up that song? How'd you know them little tore up jeans Was gonna tear me up and turn me on? Girl, it's like you know me too good But you barely know me at all Yeah, the way it's going tonight

Hardy connects the speaker 's experience to the places on the map primarily through application of map characteristics to the speaker 's story, word choice, and literary juxtaposition. The poem is written in a way that highlights Hardy 's great attention to detail, through the poem 's format.