The Giving Tree a Son Written by Tim Lopez: Giving and Receiving Love

The song “Kevin's Heart “portrays the message that he doesn't need another lover in his life because he already has the woman of his dreams.Although temptation is lurking in his life.He tries so hard to make things right, but at the end of the day he is only human and needs to learn from his mistakes.

Sometimes, as weird as this sounds, it is easier to understand something when someone uses a simile, metaphor, etc. When reading a poem personification is often used. In the song “S.O.S” similes are used often. There is one used in the following line,”now my heart's in two/ And I can't find the other half/ It's like I'm walking on broken glass.” Obviously, the speaker didn’t go walk on broken glass because of a broken heart. Also, a heart can not literally break in half because someone broke up with you, like the song says. Symbolism helped create an even better picture of this song. Give further

The tree would take care of the boy. When the boy would come each time to ask for something the tree was willing to give anything

Once I was able to associate these words to emotions and issues present in everyday life, the poem started to make me feel sad. I began thinking about all of the emotions and feelings that everyone hides as they go about life. For example, how the waitress I see once a week may have an eating disorder, or how the singer I look up to just lost her son, or the businessman who got laid off today. Everyone has their own personal battle that they carry everywhere, at any given moment. This explains why the setting is so plain, since the internal struggles people face affect them even at a bus stop. While each person waits, the waitress may be thinking about how much skinnier the person next to her is. The singer could be remembering when she held her baby. And the business man could be planning how to break the news to his wife. No matter how small, everyone experiences a type of trauma or bad experience, and this poem seemed to show what happens when these emotions become bottled up. No one can help each other because they are so stuck within their own issues. The difficulty helping others reminded me of the idea of having to take care of yourself before being able to take care of others.

Another idea that interested me in the song was the idea of losing someone close to you. Chris demonstrates this idea by singing “And the tears come streaming down your face; When you lose something you can’t replace;When you love someone but it goes to waste.” These lyrics show us the anguish and pain of losing someone you love. The line “tears come streaming down your face” emphasizes the greiving as people will cry and feel misery from losing someone close to them. He then goes on to say “When you lose

This bittersweet story is about a young boy and a tree that loved the little boy very much. As this story go on, we see the little boy grow up and wanting more and more from the tree than a climb or a couple of apples. The tree gives and gives till she cannot give any more.

For most of us, this would be our family. To the tree this was its family. Can you imagine having family that doesn’t love you. I can’t. Even though the boy doesn’t show love to the tree, the tree is still willing to make the boy happy.

When listening to the lyrics, the song makes you wonder how much loneliness affects the human condition, and how many people are truly lonely in the world. This song has a very realistic outlook on human emotions. It shares a different perspective of looking

The first lyric sets the tone for the whole song: "I hurt myself today/ To see if I still feel". That first verse later goes on to describe the narrator's usage of drugs (likely heroin): "The needle tears a hole/ The old familiar sting". The verse as a whole describes a sense of hopelessness: the man "hurt himself" (either indirectly through drugs or by actually inflicting pain), uses the pain and high to try to forget his situation, but apparently still "remembers everything."

The song I've chosen to interpret was "Boomerang" by Lyfe Jennings. The boomerang effect is an euphemism. As we learned in our discussion that it's a nicer way to say something to someone without being offensive or, coming off as harsh. The meaning of boomerang is other way of saying what comes around goes around. What you do to others, will always comeback to you in the long run. Some refer to it as karma which is also a euphemism. In the song Lyfe Jennings was basically saying that he didn't understand how being heartbroken felt until it happened to him. He didn't realize the pain he caused others until someone made him fell the same way. He than understood how it felt to be in love with someone who hurts you the most, he knew the pain he

My first interpretation about this song was depressing and initially, I perceived the lyrics as silly. Though I quite liked the music but I thought that the message it gives is basically wrong and lyrics would mislead the people, especially the youth. The

Having a really good friend in your life can sometimes save your life. Friendship is one of the best things to have. In “The Giving Tree”, Friendship is what kept the boy and tree living life happily. In the book, the tree gave the boy happiness and joy when he was a child. As the boy grew

The mood of the song may be sad because King is singing about a woman who does not seem to love him back. Even though, it seems as if King has had his heart broken

This song reflects a dilemma between two choices where both sides have equal consequences. The song is about the progression of a relationship where they are so desperately in love with each other, but just can't seem to get along and have doubts whether it's really meant to be. The song is emotively effective because it touches on a very relatable subject of not knowing how to choose between two options and makes you think about what people will put themselves through to try and make something work that's just not going for them. It also shows the hard truth about how even though you try your best sometimes it’s still not enough sometimes.

Kelly Clarkson’s world famous song Wrapped in Red is a successful song to America, as well being adapted internationally. Wrapped in Red is an American song about how much Christmas influences the idea of falling in love in the artist’s point of view. Also, it’s about how after many years of having a secret love, she will let her feelings loose in Christmas day. The artist creates a romantic mood throughout the song, The song includes 3 important literary devices, thoroughly analyzed, that make the song special and a success; imagery, repetition, and the colors expressed as feelings from the artist, Kelly Clarkson.