The song “Jar of Hearts” is a very sad and a break up song. Christina Perri first says “Don’t you know I’m not your ghost anymore”, this is a metaphor quote because she is comparing herself being a ghost because she feels invisible. When she says that I think she means that she felt like she was invisible, not there to whoever she is talking about and she got over him and no longer cares. She then later says “Collecting your jar of hearts” (Christina Perri), this is a metaphor because she is comparing all the hearts he has broken to collecting them in a jar. When she says this I believe she means he has been cheating on girls and has no heart, but is collecting theirs. Christina means is that he has no hearts and wants to break other women’s
In line 7 (“He isn’t an enemy now”) the speaker is telling herself that she should not be dwelling on the past because her ex can’t hurt her anymore. The “bitch” seems to be doing fine in controlling her emotions until line 9 when her ex-lover asks her: ““How are the children? They must be growing up.” An immediate change of tone occurs here. There is an internal struggle going on between her heart and her mind. The speaker’s mind is telling her to be polite to her ex, forget the past and move on. The bitch’s heart, on the other hand, is keeping her from moving on and causing her to struggle with feelings of desire. This is clear, for example, in lines 10-13: “At a kind word from him... Down, girl! Keep your distance.” The speaker knows that if she accidentally gets to close to this ex-lover by having feelings again, she will only end up getting hurt. Kind words and gestures can often be deceiving and I have learned that unfortunately charming people are dangerous. I have been hurt numerous times by such personalities by only looking at their kind side and ignoring other flaws. The bitch is warning herself to not get caught up in this trap of feelings again.
Aguilera song is not really about being sad or depression. Her music video and effective use of ethos, pathos, and logo are to help us realize the importance of people around us, especially family. What happens if one day the people we love mot go away? You might live your life thinking about a way that you could had done something more for them. Main thing about the song is that you should cherish every moment you have with your family. Without them, you would not be who you are today. Family is the best and most precious gift in our lives, and it is important to embrace it every
The allusion seen in the songs provided allude to women luring in men using their sweet songs (words) and even their sexual charm. The line “Oh what a siren can do to a man with open ears” shown in the Sirens Song show how just the words flowing from a Sirens’ [women’s] mouth can draw in a man (May I). The Siren is able to attract and draw in men just by telling them what they want to hear. Even though the man referred to as “he” in the Sirens Song has a “queen by his side”, he is still being seduced by the harlot (May I). The man has a fine lady by his side but not even that is keeping him from listening to the Sirens [harlots] songs.
When he is saying that he loves the singer Estelle Fletcher he uses a hyperbole to exaggerate his loving for the lyrics.
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
A very clear and descriptive literary element used would be how much the blue jar symbolizes and changes her life. After the excitement of finding the blue jar Lady Helena is expressing her emotions on how she wants the blue jar to impact her life. Lady Helena expresses, “And when I am dead you will cut out my heart and lay it in the blue jar. For then everything will be as it was then”(141). Although Lady Helena claims throughout the story she is searching for just a meer blue jar. She is indeed searching for the merchant who saved her, and who’m she fell in love with. When the blue jar was blessed upon her, she saw it as more than just a blue jar. She wants to have her heart inside this jar to replicate the pure bliss of how life was with her one love. As stated “For then everything will be as it was then.” She’s describing how her heart and feelings were so at peace when with him. And
J.Cole is implying that he's already has the love of his life . No one could possibly replace,but when he is called upon by other possible lovers he hesitates to decline.J.Cole was probably trying to say that he is only human so he is still capable of making mistakes.
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
This very slow song, so in my opinion I think it reinforces a sense of bittersweet, because even though she mentions how she wants to be remembered for the good things that she did she also mentions death and regrets in her song.
The title Girl, Interrupted “Interrupted at her music: as my life had been, interrupted in the music of being seventeen... What life could recover from that?” refers to the painting as she sees it as a distillation of her own experience. Just like the girl in the painting was interrupted so was Susanna and for two years she was unable to live the life that she wanted to. The Bell Jar is a metaphor used by Sylvia Plath to show that Esther is trapped inside her own head and is unable to escape the doubtful and insecure thoughts she has. It is also used as a metaphor for society as people are unable to escape from the expectation which society puts upon them.
The speaker uses the simile “hug your sadness like an eyeless doll” to show that holding onto your sadness is like holding onto something pointless, like the “eyeless doll.” The second stanza is continuing the speaker telling the child ways to forget sadness in the same “what everyone says to do” tone by telling the child to “buy a hat. Buy a coat or pet. Take up dancing to forget.” The third stanza is filled with imagery; “your mouth sulky with sugar, in your new dress with the ribbon and the ice-cream smear, and said to yourself in the bathroom, I am not the favorite child.” This stanza paints the picture of a little girl, which is revealed by “new dress with the ribbon”,
Holly is explaining that she’s roamed free of feelings, basically saying that once the heart is given to a wild thing, if they’re given the opportunity
Sylvia Plath uses many literary devices to convey her purpose in The Bell Jar such as symbolism. The Bell Jar itself is used as symbolic representation of the emotional state Esther is in. The glass jar distorts her image of the world as she feels trapped under the glass. It represents mental illness; a confining jar that descends over her mind and doesn’t allow her to live and think freely. Symbols of life and death pervade The Bell Jar. Esther experiences psychological distress which is a major motif in the novel. The death of Esther’s father and the relationship with her mother is a possible reason for her illness. Sylvia Plath expresses the difficulties Esther faces and parallels her struggle with depression and illustrates it using various symbols such as a fig tree, mirrors, beating heart and a bell jar throughout the novel.
This is an inspirational song for an average teenage girl, but as I pointed out there were some contradictions to the lyrics and the meaning. They may want to see themselves as beautiful in every way possible, but the world is a puzzle and there is a piece that is gone because of what has become socially acceptable.
What exactly does Christina Aguilera try to convey? According to her words along with personal interviews of the true meaning of this stanza in her song, Beautiful, Christina Aguilera approaches the reader and listener with her profound emotions. She perceives that through immense pressure and criticism, she is still "beautiful."