What Is Twenty One Pilots Essay

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 song has poetic merit due to its allusions. It has a biblical allusion in stanza 2, line 1- “Lord, make me a rainbow….” . This clearly addresses God, which forms a biblical allusion. It also contains a historical allusion in stanza 2, line 3, when it states: “She’ll know...when she stands under my colours..”, hinting at a commonplace funeral tradition.

This theme is brought through the song by showing multiple literary devices. Such as “I'm the one at sail, I’m the master of my sea”. This metaphor shows the realization and empowerment that oneself can give in a depressing situation. This simile “Falling like ashes to the ground, Hoping my feelings they would drown” compares his feeling of sadness and depression to ashes, and wanting them to drown and vanish, from his life. This line, “All the hate that you’ve heard has turned your spirit to a dove” explains how all of the hate that he has experienced and gone through has turned his feelings around, and decided to look on the bright side of things. Personally I think this is a great

The next four lines address death with symbolism and personification to establish the idea of not fearing the unknown future. In line 5, the voice talks about the life cycle

The refrain goes like this, “When I look into your eyes / There’s just devils and dust”. Eyes are often used in poetry and in popular culture as a path to see what somebody really feels and how that person is really like in the inside. If in a person’s eyes “there’s just devils and dust” it shows that that person is troubled, haunted, and desolated. The visual image of “devils and dust” illustrates a godforsaken place, which is what that person’s soul has become. Following that the speaker tells his friend, Bobby, how they are a “long, long way from home”. These verses can have two meanings: they can refer to a soldier in a war (thus the relation with the Iraq War) or they could mean that we have strayed so far away from our values, from what we were founded upon, that this is no longer home, it is now a strange place. Many people argue, and with some justification, that the United States in the past years is becoming less and less like the country it was founded to be. The verse, “I feel a dirty wind blowing” once more takes us to the Iraq War since it evokes the image of a desert. It also relates, together with the “finger on the trigger”, to the Wild West, which seems to be where Springsteen has gotten most of the imagery for his CD (as it can be seen in songs with titles such as “Black Cowboys” and “The Hitter”). The Wild West used to be a treacherous place, which relates with the

The chorus goes as following, “Through the wind and the rain/She stands hard as a stone/In a world that she can't rise above/But her dreams give her wings/And she flies to a place where she's loved/Concrete angel”. The first two lines are a simile and represent logos because wind is normally interpreted as something sad that moves things. Rain is also interpreted as sad and depressing because when it rains it is normally gloomy and the sky is grey and simply makes people feel down. The simile is saying that Angela is acting like a hard stone, one that doesn’t move and is up fighting against the harsh wind and rain that is pouring down on her. Also, the last four lines demonstrate that in the abusive situation that Angela is in and can’t seem to get out, affects her want of receiving love and admiration by someone and causes her to rise above and go to heaven where she will receive the love that she

According to their website, their songs express who God is and who we are in Him; capturing new and fresh expressions of worship.

In addition, they also question the faith and actions of the world. The choirs of the song: “Father, Father, Father help us/Send some guidance from above/People got me, got me questionin'/ Where is the love (Love)/ ….Where is the love/The love, the love?” (lines 23-31) they tie in social institutions and agents of socialization. Above all they are focusing on one social institution which is religion. The song

Throughout this song, there is a story being told of how an individual is being pulled in by a society that wants everyone in it to conform. It begins by talking about how there might be a higher being that might be watching from behind determining its moves

This song speaks about how great God is because of His creation. A posteriori thought is based on what is in the physical and only proves God’s existence through real, physical

walk away, it is better to be alive than to risk it. The fourth verse in my opinion talks about the

Next, "I Felt a Funeral in My Brain" creates an illusion of a mind becoming unstable by describing the speaker's irrationality. The speaker's irrationality is represented in the third stanza and fourth stanza. It is evident that the speaker is beginning to hear voices, which is why she states "And then I heard them lift a Box" (line 9). The voices that the speaker is hearing are beginning to take over her mind as she expresses "And creak across my Soul," which gives the reader's the illusion of the speaker losing all control. All the problems that the speaker is experiencing as a result of her mental stability are beginning to take their toll, which is evident through the statement "Boots of Lead, again, Then Space - began to toll" (line 11-12). The speaker has now fallen into a state of irrationality, and her mind has suffered enough, and consequently thoughts of suicide plague the speaker. The statement "As all the Heavens were a Bell" represents the speaker's feelings that her mind has a chance of being at peace again if she ends her existing insanity, and she must therefore act upon her suicide thoughts (line 13). The speaker is trying to convince herself to follow through with her thoughts of suicide, as clearly indicated in her statement "Wrecked, solitary, here-." The speaker

A whole phrase in the middle of the song is a repetition of the two lines, “Darkness is a harsh term don’t you think? And yet it dominates the things I seek,” this is a representation of the struggle of trying to find peace in our souls with God and our desire for earthly happiness. To entirely understand the theme of “White Blank Page,” we must understand the metaphor of Christ as the “groom” to His people, the Church, and the Church as His “bride.” Mumford writes a passionate lyrical metaphor, to paint the picture of the crucifixion of Christ, the Son of God. I believe Marcus Mumford is using this moment in history to explain why the greatest commandment we as Christ followers have been given to follow: “Love the Lord your God with all your soul with all your mind and with all of your strength.” (The Holy Bible: English Standard Version 724: ch12, verse 30). The song starts out with the Father of Christ, God, talking to His son, Jesus Christ. Marcus Mumford begins the song with “Can you lie next to her and give her your heart, you heart?” When he writes “her,” he is making a reference to the “bride,” Christ’s followers. This first verse is a depiction of God talking to his Son, asking if he is now ready to give His people, the Church, his “heart” and “body.” Marcus Mumford writes in the second verse, “But tell me now where was my fault, in loving you with my

The third line, "Terror, the Human Form Divine," represents the purest feeling of humanity. People want to believe in God, but no matter how much they want to believe the terror resides in their soul they are wrong. Satan feeds off of this terror to make people doubt Heaven and come towards Hell. Line four, "And Secrecy, the Human Dress," represents how well humans hide these feelings of doubt and terror.

In the first verse of the song, Lennon tells us how important it is for us to live in the present moment rather than worry about what is waiting for us upon our death. Even though it is normal to worry about our death, Lennon urges us to pay more attention to the sky above us rather than heaven or hell. This is especially true for those who lose out on the present moment worrying about the future.