This is a modern ballad written and performed by Mariah Carey. It is a sim ple sentimental song dealing with the pain of losing a loved one in death. The lyrics of the song make the listener understand that Mariah must have experienced the loss of a special loved one. I n the first stanza she calls on her audience to put their hands up if they’re experienced the death of a loved one. This is a powerful method of getting her a udience all focusi n8 OF the common experience of losing someone. Immediately the audience begins to feel for her and also feel for themselves. The second stanza names all of the loved ones people can have and calls on them to list their head up high to the sky because they are …show more content…
The words are sentimental and filled with longing to be able to be with that person again. Again, the strength here is empathy and touching on a consequence of losing a loved one which every human can relate to. There is a strong use of ‘apostrophe’ which is addressing a person as though they could hear you. The four stanzas are talking to the loss loved one in a longing, sad way with the understanding that they have to accept what has happened because it cannot be changed. However, because she is talking to the loved one, the listener knows that she is longing for that person to still be somehow present in their lives. Perhaps this is in a spiritual sense. The chorus which is repeated, focuses on not only her pain but the pain of loss which causes all people to feel lonely, abandoned, left behind and regretful. The repetition of the chorus emphasises the longing to be reunited with the loved one and causes the listener to feel the pain and loss which no human has control over. Acceptance is the only alternative and pain is
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
The tone of despair and loneliness is carried on to the proceeding stanzas, and is more evident in the last two. By saying that “Water limpid as the solitudes that flee
Yet, these parents have to accept that they will never be able to live their lives with or share their love openly with the child. So they must find ways to hold on to the memories. Many bereaved parents come to learn that "memories are the precious gifts of the heart...[that they need] these memories and whispers, to help create a sense of inner peace, a closeness" (Wisconsin Perspectives Newsletter, Spring 1989, 1).
In the first stanza, the writer uses many techniques to convey the feeling of loss, when he says,
Within the first two verses of the song, this young woman presents an issue that is all too common for many people. She has big dreams and wants to make a name for herself, but to succumb to making that dream a reality, she would have to desert the loved ones that have made
When a loved when is gone it feels like a hole in the world. With much grief he says, “Never again will anyone inhabit the world the way he did. Questions I have can never now get answers. The world is emptier. My son is gone. Only a hole remains, Avoid, a gap, never to be filled”(33). This phrase describes his emotions and how he views the world without his son. The author gives advice on what to say to someone who is mourning. He says to never say its Ok because its never okay and death is awful. “ What I need to hear from you is that you recognize how painful it is. I need to hear from you that you are with me in my desperation” (34). When some passes away no one really knows what his or her loved ones are feeling because each death is unique and each person is different. The wisest of words don’t even make the pain go away, and all that can be done is lending an ear to listen, a shoulder to lean on.
beloved, the speakers in the two poem have very different ways of dealing with their grief. In
In life, comprehending the loss and pain that humans face in their lives is challenging without experiencing a part of it or obtaining the opportunity to visualize it. William Minor’s I Cried of Course provides a heart-rending poem that is made strikingly emotional by the utilization of music and moving pictures in electronic format which creates an illustration for the pain people experience from the loss of a loved one. The slideshow consisting of music with lyrics that serve as the poem and old pictures of those who have lost loved ones or are deceased themselves, creates a sense of nostalgia for the reader, allowing them to empathize as if those were their memories.
Although in both “Annabel Lee” and “ Funeral Blues” the overall theme conveyed is the pain behind losing a loved one, the tone between both poems differs. In “ Annabel Lee” a young man talks about having a love so deep with young girl named Annabel Lee, that the angels, whom he describes as “winged seraphs of Heaven”(11) were jealous. Described in the first four stanzas, the young man is almost cursing at the turn of events that led to Annabel´s death. He expresses a cynical and vengeful tone when talking about the death of his beloved, blaming both the jealous angels for taking her away and her family for locking her in a coffin forever. Nevertheless, in the last two stanzas, there is a more accepting and settling tone when the speaker mentions,
In the next four lines of the poem, the speaker talks about how he feels as he imagines his childhood. Even though he is in front of this woman who is singing and playing music, “in spite of” himself, his present state, this “insidious mastery of song betrays” the speaker back “till” he “weeps” to go back to his childhood. The guileful dominance of the song the woman is singing beguiles him to think about his past experience. His heart “weeps to belong to the old Sunday evenings at home.” He really misses the time when he was little, and he used to hear his mother playing piano every Sunday evening. He wants to go back to his childhood and belong to that time again.
The astonishing poem, Perhaps by Vera Brittain is engaging and intuitive to the reader. interprets to the reader through her writing how she feels when trying to accept the passing of loved ones, specifically her fiance as to whom she wrote this for. The reader can interpret this by of the use of the word Perhaps, which were in the first line of every stanza. Reading Perhaps and understanding the way Brittain is with her words could remind readers of a loved one that might have passed away, also reminding them of the way they have accepted their loved one's death or even how to.
Which is really significant of this stanza is that there are lots of objects that produce a noise, which is associated to a human being doing noise, in case of the piano for example. Moreover, in the second and the third stanza, the speaker has the willing to explain how perfect his lover was. To do so, he utilizes the words “Let aeroplanes circle [...] overhead / Scribbling on the sky the message Me Is Dead” and with these metaphors, because neither the sky can be scribbled nor a person can be related to God and his magnificence. In addition, the speaker write two antithesis to clarify that the lover was their whole life and now he is lost without him “He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and Sunday rest, [...]”, which is clarified with the possessive
The loss of a loved one is a poem by Kenya H. published in 2010. You don’t find the exact words to explain the way you feel when you lose a person that means so much for. A human being that has marked your life forever. A person who has always been there for you constantly every day of your life. Loved ones are a precious human being, i know this for a fact and when you lose one it’s like a mini attack that gets to you for the rest of your life.
Throughout “Tears in Heaven,” Clapton displays his grief through the compelling lyrics in his song. For example, Clapton presents his grief and guilt about not spending enough time with his son by using a rhetorical device, asking
Comprehending her lyrics, one may perceive from the understanding that her intended audience is actually anyone who may be feeling the same way as her and the effect in which she wishes to have upon them is to be like her in the