The Use Of Metaphors InWhen, By Dodie Clark

Budge Wilson’s, The Metaphor, is a bildungsroman that blueprints Charlotte’s transition from a young, moldable girl into an independent woman through juxtaposition, allegory, and symbolism. Charlotte is an awkward seventh grader, who transforms into a well-round tenth grader before the eyes of the reader due to the influence of her teacher, Miss. Hancock. Her mother, calculated and emotionless, is the foil to Miss. Hancock’s wild, unorganized spirit. Charlotte finds herself drawn to Miss. Hancock, who her mother despises, which causes Charlotte internal strife. She pushes down her feelings, but through a traumatic experience, she discovers Miss. Hancock’s lessons are the ones her heart wants to live by, not her mother’s. Miss. Hancock and

With every aspect of our lives we are making a point, arguing a belief, or refuting some other aspect of our existence. Aesthetic pieces, most avidly poems and songs, argue a message both in the lyrics and in the meaning posed between the lines. “American Pie,” in a multitude of ways, argues that American lives and memories are closely intertwined with the music of the time period. Not only does “American Pie” argue a message it also pulls many generations together. Today, thirty years after the initial release, “American Pie” still has an effect in our music and continues to be popular with all age groups. Don McLean accomplishes this task through using the context of the time period, placement of words, the words

American Pie” is an impressionistic ballad by Don Mclean which features unique and intriguing lyrics. It has imaginative changes in tempo, vocal delivery and instrumentation, and imparts a wide range of emotions ranging from pure joy, to melancholy and despair. The song takes the listener on an autobiographical journey through the turbulent 1960’s with references to the events that shaped the era. Don Mclean was enshrined in the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame in 2004 for his work on “American Pie” (Don McLean: Songwriters Hall of Fame Inauguration). With its use of formal structure, allusions, and figurative language, the song, “American Pie”, has many poetic qualities.

Poems like these are still written in today’s society but are expressed through different mediums than the poetry of old. While this song was originally released in 1928, it didn’t gain popularity until 1939. In today’s society, poems are found more often in music than in a book, although those are common too. Song’s in today’s society often rhyme or tell a story and can be analyzed just as poetry

So why would the band choose to illustrate such a serious stage of personal development with the nursery rhyme-like style of the song's chorus? Before we get to that, the song's emotional and psychological message must first be examined.

Throughout this passage Scott Russell Sanders uses metaphors to persuade the readers to think migration is not a helpful characteristic in human beings lives. You can see this by the metaphor, “The habit of our industry and commerce has been to force identical schemes onto differing locales, as though the mind were a cookie-cutter and the land were dough” from the article (Sanders 59). With this quote the author is trying to say cookie dough is like the land and we are like a cookie-cutter, that is why this is a metaphor because he is comparing us and the land to another object. The author uses this quote to explain how migration has forced us to move industries to lands that can not handle it. He relates cookie dough and us being the cookie

In the first chapter of the book, “The Motive for Metaphor”, Frye starts off the book by using a vivid scene of an uninhabited island to illustrate three levels of the human mind and the language for each of them and further explore the use of imagination in literature. Frye then discusses the distinction between the arts and the sciences as “science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws” (p23) while “art begins with the world we construct, not the world we see”.(p23) By shedding light on the fundamental difference, Frye argues that literature begins in the imaginative world and stresses his point of an unprogressive literature world even though imagination has no limits.

Within a chapter of the story, “To Kill A Mockingbird” by Harper Lee, a young pair of siblings find various items inside of a knothole in a tree. But as they took the items, more would appear inside of the knothole the next day. The siblings soon want to return the favour by leaving a letter of thanks for the person putting the “gifts” in for them. This knothole is a way the siblings use to try to communicate to the other person leaving the items. Due to the way the knothole is used, it symbolizes mysterious nature of the person leaving the items inside of the hole. “‘Don’t take it, Jem,’ I said. ’This is somebody’s hidin’ place’” (Lee 78). The siblings do not know the reason behind the items in the tree at first, further showing how the

Perhaps I am not drunk enough to get this sufficiently down on paper, but I am here now, come back to something which only I must endure on my own. I listen to your songs and feel as though they may be an insurmountable hill that I shall not ever find peace upon again. And oh, how they once brought me comfort and knowledge. But if only I could have had just some parts of you, the music would have been one of the best. From your songs and albums I have learned more of you and your enormous soul and love than had you ever spoken the feelings aloud. Then from the cacophony of your heart’s truth set to tune, we stumbled upon a few melodies with which to call our own- songs invented purely for the two of us. Now, in the aftermath of what has been real, I cannot fathom to listen to the Yellow Songbirds no more. In all of it and for what ever must come next, I am afraid that I will never be able to hear some things again without a shiver of pain and remorse.

“Melodrama”, a song off of Atlanta-based singer-songwriter Mister Zach’s recently released LP Songs for Myself, runs out of the gate in a determinedly chipper fashion - an upbeat piano arrangement is soon followed by a punchy yet subdued cooperation of drums and bass. It’s a done-to-death instrumental arrangement that finds new life thanks to Zach Tipton’s simple talent for songwriting - the lyrics are the cherry on top of the cake here. The vocals are flawlessly recorded; even better, they’re just weird enough to be unique. Tipton’s chorus is low key catchy: “Driven by desire / the lower - the higher / a system entertained me / with melodrama, melodrama,” he sings. The lyrics themselves are accessible, yet pleasingly cryptic. On “Melodrama”,

These are Michelle's metaphor: A sailor losing his direction on the sea. This is a metaphor for Michelle who is perplexed by the reality that she has to choose whether obeys her father's instructions or follow the guidance of her own heart. She strives to stop wandering and find out what she truly wants.

Jonas Erik Altbergg better known by his recording pseudonym “Basshunter” is a Swedish Singer-DJ-Songwriter. His hit song Now You’re Gone received international renown and popularity, reaching number one on UK music charts. In this song Basshunter is reminiscently speaking to a lost lover, and it follows the tale of his regrets over this lost love. The themes of love and regret that are espoused in the song are so applicable to common life that the song has become highly successful. This essay will be focusing on Basshunter’s use of poetic techniques to illustrate and highlight these themes.

As the power of a song resides completely in its lyrics, it is no longer surprising that music can be healing, inspiring, or even motivating. After introducing this insight to my life, it became very rare for me to listen to any Imagine Dragons’ song without it leaving an impact on my life and my perspectives. Imagine Dragons is a rock band whose music tends to address both personal and social issues. It’s Time, one of their biggest hits and most influential songs, was written by the band’s lead singer Dan Reynolds during a difficult time in his life. “ I was not very happy with who I was, I guess, and I wanted to make some changes” says the singer in an interview with Purevolume , in which he addresses It’s Time as a poem he wrote to express

A Typology for Analyzing Pop Song Lyrics Using Narrative Theory and Semiotics.” In this academic article Randle and Evans concluded that an open undefined narrative can be seen when, “no cues exist as to the time or sequencing of events or a specific setting.”(Randle and Evans 137) However, what these songs lack in events and settings, these songs seem to be brimming with hermeneutic code where questions arise at every line: What happened in the past? Why does she keep asking for forgiveness? Why doesn’t she just move on? Questions arising from the lyrics like these, are why Adele’s songs are labeled as an opened undefined narrative. A narrative where the audience has to make assumptions about what has happened in the past to cause these complicated relations to result. Although we may eventually learn what Adele’s songs may be about, we may also learn how her relationships work.

The musical song “Wonderwall” by Oasis speaks about a friend rescuing the life of another friend. The speaker appears to be the band, Oasis, singing the song in first person through the multiple uses of the term “I.” The singer experiences the conflict of loneliness, that somebody must save him from his own downfall. The conflict ties in with the theme of always relying on a friend to come save the day, no matter the situation. Oasis writes the poem in the structure of a stanza, but the line count in each stanza varies. Within the poem, the singer’s intended audience may be a significant other, perhaps a woman. The reader believes this due to the fact that the singer says “you” throughout the song (2).