Stephanie Says- the Velvet Underground Song Analysis

In Neil Diamonds song “Sweet caroline” he reveals many things. He does this by using multiple literary devices. He first writes the lyric “look at the night/And it don’t seem so lonely.” This lyric uses personification and its purpose is to describe how the night is so quiet and dark. It also affects the poem by changing/setting the mood of the poem. He then wrote the lyric “Warm, touchin’ warm/Reachin’ out, touchin’ me, touchin’ you.” This lyric uses the literary device of Diction and it was used to replace words so they aren’t repeated multiple times in the song. In this case the words “hands, touchin’ hands” is changed with “warm, touchin’ warm.” Another lyric he wrote was “Hands, touchin’ hands/Reachin’ out, touchin’ me, touchin’ you.”

Robin Thicke’s music video to his song “Blurred Lines” avidly contributes to the patriarchy, while portraying sexism, gender standards, and beauty standards. His music video can be analyzed from a feminist theory approach, as it’s evident that his song and video contribute to a patriarchal society and its inherently sexist and sexualized ideologies. The ideology behind the song and music video is purely sexual and about male dominance. The lyrics to the song and actions in the video exhibit extreme over sexualization and objectification of the women. Analyzing this piece of popular culture through a feminist approach opens up a provoking conversation about how popular culture functions in a patriarchal culture. Analyzing pop culture though a feminist theory can allow for a larger variety and more in-depth analysis about the social aspects and political agenda within popular culture.

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

Ice is prone to being friable which is a prime example that indicates its relatability to the girl in the poem as she was also very vulnerable and fragile. The young girl in the poem showcased a state of fragileness “in tears” because when an individual is dealing with sorrowful circumstances if another thing equally as disconsolate was to happen there mental state of mind would typically break. Not only that but, ice is also an ideal symbol for representing the hardships the girl was going through as it is a form of pain and coldheartedness. In this piece of literature, the verse “The first ice of human hurt” supports and reinforces the theory of ice symbolizing pain. The extremely cold temperature of ice placed on humans can essentially inflict an unpleasant thrilling or sharp ache all throughout the body. Even though this is the literal effect of ice causing pain to the human body, when one interprets this definition to the phrase “The first ice of human hurt” it can be insinuated that the girl felt a resemblance between the sharp and thrilling discomfort of ice with her breakup. Perhaps not physically but the author certainly tried to convey this idea of sharp pains being inflicted on her emotionally. Many more verses throughout the poem had the word “ice” embedded into them which display different yet similar variations of the main concept they are symbolic to. Thus, it is safe to place

Listening to the lyrics of your favorite song you automatically start to have a connection with that song. Then the song starts to represent you and your life because of the lyrics. Some songs show about being a fighter,having freedom, or just being you. There's a billion of songs out there and there's a billion of people who connect with those songs. Usually the most common reason why some songs represent people is by their past experience. For me some songs represent me because I decided to follow my dreams,living in the moment, and get right back up.

The first two stanzas of “Chandelier” are a visual on what a girl is doing at a party, and what she is thinking about. It is apparent that she is drinking and trying to have fun, but it is not for any random reason. The girl is drinking so much and making herself available to anybody (specifically guys) that want to have a good time because she is trying to push down and away what she is going through. Repetition of lyrics such as “1 2 3, 1 2 3, drink” emphasize the fact that the girl is purposely making herself drunk. It is as if she is trying to cloud her mind.

Can you imagine losing your dad, being kidnapped, and having your stepdad go to jail all before you even become an adult? The main character, Stephanie, in the book Taken, by Norah McClintock experienced this. Stephanie was brave enough to escape from her kidnapper, and was daring enough to eat nothing but birch bark and maggots in able to survive for six days. While Stephanie was trying to escape the woods and get home, she always thought about her family, and how important they are to her. The survival skills that her grandpa gave her helped her sustain herself and she constantly thought about how she should treat her mom better.

“Nobody Knows When You're Down and Out” talks about relationships in the song. She explains how most people only like you for what you have but when you lose that, then you lose your so called friends.

It’s interpreted that each stanza in this monologue is an explanation of her current predicament; convincing her husband that she is not the one in their relationship that is being unfaithful, “I’m not the kind of woman who telephone’s in the middle of the night, who told

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

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.

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.

“The Thin Ice” returns the listener to a chronological telling of Pink’s story. In “The Thin Ice” the listener learns about Pink as a toddler. The song describes the affection Pink’s parents have for their young son. A close listening identifies what we later recognize as his mother’s overprotective characteristic. The mother who we can identify from the phrase “Oooo Babe” tells Pink “Don’t be surprised when a crack in the ice, / Appears under your feet.

For example, “Hey you out there in the cold. Getting lonely getting old.” Pink is calling out for people just like him. The cold is a reference to his emotionless state of being. Pink is now starting to feel emotions and need some likeminded people to identify with.

During the song, Alicia Keys used multiple figurative devices. In the first part of the song, Alicia Keys says, “ she’s