Adele's 'Rolling In The Deep'

Adrienne Rich’s “Diving into the Wreck” sends one into a deep cultural descent. We look a one ones exploration into the rift in society between sexes, and the journey to rewrite that. The three parts that symbolize this are: the book of myths, the camera and the knife, the diver’s relationship with the wreck and the cargo found below.

Music is an art. It is combined in a way to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expressing of emotion; the lyrics help you connect and cope with certain situations you’re experiencing. I chose to analyze the country song, “Good In Goodbye” by Carrie Underwood. Carrie Underwood wrote this song for a past love whom she sees years later outside a restaurant they used to go to and recalls the good in her heartache and pain. This song is very close to my heart, it helped me when I was going through a heartbreak. I now realize why this song’s meaning is worth knowing. Country music’s atmosphere is mostly nostalgic and it always has a great message or a life lesson behind it.

Can an ego be big enough for one to “trip over?” Ego-tripping is something undertaken to boost or draw attention to a person’s own image or appraisal of himself, and or something done primarily to satisfy one’s vanity. Nikki Giovanni was born in Knoxville, Tennessee on June 7. 1943. She graduated with honors from her grandfather’s alma mater Fisk University. The poem Ego-Tripping is about what she perceives as the true identity of an African American women. She explains how being powerful can open so many doors for a person if they just believe in themselves. This poem was written when Giovanni took her first trip to Africa in 1972, the same year the poem was written. The poet explains her past experience to show how lost she was during

Under the lights by Abbie Glines. There are three teens that grew up together in a southern small town. Willa’s mom had her when she was a teenager. Willa had gotten into some trouble at a young age and had to stay with her Nonna. Willa’s two best friends were Gunner and Brady. Willa has made some bad choices in her past life which made her go down the wrong path in life. Brady’s a high school quarter back now and with the choices Willa has made Brady sees Willa as a different person. Gunner is also a football star in high school. Gunner is living a good rich life the only matter though he cares about himself only, except for Willa. He understands the person she has grown into over her time. As they were known to be child hood friends secrets start to come out and the truth may be the reason of them losing each other.

In Bruno Mars's song, “Grenade”, he uses words, literary devices, and phrases to show the overall theme of disappointment, heartache, and how some people will do crazy things for the people they love, even if it isn’t a two way street. He uses examples to show a possible past relationship where he loved a girl so much that he would do anything, but she did not return the affection. This ties into the theme of disappointment and heartbreak. Bruno Mars uses literary devices, most commonly hyperboles, to show the theme of heartache and how some people will put everything on the line for love, even if it goes against their own well-being.

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

A character in the novel Inside Out and Back Again, by Thanhha Lai, changes from the beginning of the novel to the end. The character who changes throughout was Ha. Ha is a 10 year-old girl from Vietnam, who had to leave because of Vietnam War. Ha had to move from a place in which she was so comfortable to go to a place where things were unfamiliar and confusing. Two examples of how Ha evolved was becoming more mature and finding different ways to show her intelligence.

Ha is the main character from Inside Out and Back Again this book is by Thanhha Lai. Her family has been kicked out of there home and, there life is turned inside out. They are forced to move to Alabama, and they are having a are time trying to fit in. They are now living in Alabama with their Cowboy and, his wife. The Cowboy's wife does not like Ha and her family just because they are from Saigon, and they speak another language than they do. In Inside Out and Back Again, Ha and her family’s life turns into a crazy mess. She is forced to move and, she has to get use to a new home. Then, she finally gets accepted by everybody at her school.

I heard a song by singer/songwriter Ryan Adams about a month ago entitled “Wrecking Ball”. Now, I know those words immediately conjure up an image of Miley Cyrus drooling on a sledgehammer but where I’m going with this is nothing like that, I promise. There was a particular lyric in the song that struck a chord, and truly resonated with me in a way a lyric I didn’t write had in years.

The Lion Behind The Glass How much do we really know about lions? This beautiful beast does not only pridefully take on his role as “King of the Jungle” but he’s is also an inspiration to many of his followers. He is recognized as brave and prideful. Although he’s all of these great things he has a hidden truth. The lion is probably the most terrible dad in the animal kingdom.

Over the past few years, racial tensions in America have heightened. During this period, Black America undergo the daily struggle of witnessing the killing of unarmed black men and women. Victims of these endless killings and police brutality, turned into one of many hashtags, which led to the formations of the Black Lives Matter movement. Solange Knowles, younger sister of Beyoncé, soul singer and songwriter was viewed as the angry black woman. Solange used her platform to speak up. She became the most outspoken black artist for black activism in recent years. She embodies the image of a carefree black girl who is willing to let the world know that she is proud of her blackness.

The allusion of the Sirens in each of the song lyrics given creates a mood revolving around hopelessness. In both songs, the allusion reinforces the fact that the speaker wants something that they cannot have, similar to the sailors and the Sirens. In “Carolina,” Eric Church sings, “I’d love to see my mama/ Maybe go for a drive/ But I gotta play the star in some little town again tonight” (Church). This signifies the fact that the artist wants to go back to his hometown, but cannot, because his occupation prevents him.

Appearance in today’s society has a significant impact on adolescent girls. Young women are bombarded daily with advertisements of weight loss options such as diets, surgery, and pills. Today’s culture has become overly obsessed with an unrealistic image of what beauty really means. Many works of literature are concerned with this issue as well. Two amazing works of literature that specifically considers this issue are “Barbie Doll” by Marge Piercy and “Hanging Fire” by Audre Lorde. Characters in both poems are compelled by society’s perception of one’s image and struggles with finding their identities. While both texts discuss the age of adolescence and how society’s attitude towards beauty impacts young girls, “Barbie Doll”

What does Paris by The Chainsmokers, Say Something  by A Great Big World, and Here Comes Goodbye by Rascal Flatts all have in common? They are break-up songs. Each in their own way, all of these songs are about pain and sadness caused by break-ups.Some of these songs are meant to cause an already sad person to cope with their sadness by pushing them farther into “The Abyss”. A few are meant to touch on the happier memories of the relationship giving someone hope that they will love again. All of these songs, through their lyrics, structure, and rhythm, are all meant to cope with a person's sadness that results from a break-up.

All of the songs on this album relay different messages to listeners. Most songs contain a lot of pathos, call to action and more. Pathos is really prominent in certain songs such as Sorry, Formation, and Freedom. An excerpt from Sorry says: “Now you want to say you 're sorry/Now you want to call me crying/Now you gotta see me wildin '/Now I 'm the one that 's lying/And I don 't feel bad about it/It 's exactly what you get.” This displays the emotions after getting out of a relationship or during the struggles of it. Other lyrics from this song that display this