Mrs Potato Head Metaphors

In the realm of music, words and melodies work together in order to form a complete idea of an artist’s work. However, by abandoning the melodies and reading closely into the lyrics of a song, readers are able to draw meaning and make observations from the text that could be overshadowed by its melodies. A fine example of a song where this method is applicable is Paul Simon’s “Graceland.” Examining the lyrics reveals the story of a man making a pilgrimage to Elvis Presley’s Graceland estate in Memphis, Tennessee in the same way a religious person would journey to a holy site. Through usage of imagery, tone, and metaphorical devices throughout allow this song to function as a comically surreal poem.

In the beginning stanza, the speaker’s use of personification reveals the tone of a grim and melancholy existence. “A ball will bounce, but less and less. It’s not/ A light-hearted thing, resents its own resilience./ Falling is what it loves” (lines 2-3). The speaker can be compared to the ball which begrudgingly bounces back time after time. This can be viewed as the speaker’s own perception on his stance in life. The speaker’s boredom

Through the use of extended metaphor, Mary Oliver is allowed to express both the mentality and physicality when writing a poem, which is able to show the differences and similarities by comparison. The extended metaphor works to compare the process of writing poetry to that of building a house,

In the poem Tableau, the writer uses figurative language such as metaphor, simile, and imagery to represent a powerful tone. In turn, the tone does impact how readers perceive the

This song also has merit with its many examples of figurative language. Including alliteration (“What I never did is done”(7:2)), a simile (“green as the ring on my little cold finger” (5:2)), a metaphor (“...boy here….says he’ll love me forever” (5:5)), and a hyperbole(“Gather

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

The title of the song itself gives the viewer the overall significant and direct theme of the piece right away. It urges a person to go beyond the surface of a circumstance almost saying as if to go into the root or origin of the matter. To find who a person really is at the core of their being. At the start of the song Mama Odie comes off as a non-judgmental person. “Don 't matter what you look like. Don 't matter what you wear. How many rings you got on your finger. We don 't care.” Being in front of her and don referring to her lack of sight,

“There are a number of different lyrics used in songs that have been derived from poetry” (Kumar). Poetry is an older form of art and song lyrics have evolved from the art. However, it is a great debacle over which one can be considered the higher art form. The underlying question is if song lyrics have evolved past poetry, or has poetry remained artistic and intellectual. Despite bearing some superficial similarities, the differences between “To a Daughter Leaving Home” and “Never Grow Up” in imagery, message, and point of view are prevalent causing poetry to be considered a higher form of art.

The soprano singer sings about how “Jesus, my desire! Drive world and Satan out and let your image in me renewed sparkle”. The singer demonstrates the personal change and growth that was experienced and how Jesus was and is merciful by helping her through the process of growth by driving Satan out. The composers and musicians are able to demonstrate grace and mercy by the lyrics the singers sing as well as the different tempos used while playing the

In alternative pop music, numerous people would mistake the song’s rhythm as a light and calming love song rather than recognizing the lyrics as meaningful. Although Hozier’s song seems to be a simple love song, it has a deeper meaning that encourages the listeners to think about relationships. The first part of the first stanza illustrates how the rhythm and the lyrics do not correspond with each other. Throughout Hozier’s song the rhythm is consistent, besides in the first stanza. The first part of the stanza is,

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

Throughout the poem, a number of literary devices are used. For example: “or press an ear against its hive”. Using this metaphor, Billy Collins is comparing the body of a poem to the hive of a bee. The hive of a bee appears to be something dangerous and unknown, just like a new poem, never before seen, with which one is unfamiliar. Using this metaphor, Billy Collins is

Similes are used quite frequently throughout the poem to make this message very clear: “Before they came the air was clam enough, coming and going/ without any fuss. Then the tulips filled it up like a loud noise” (49-52). This quote is a prime example of how much of a taunt the tulips are to the patient. The first half of the quote refers to how the reader felt before the tulips were in her hospital room and how the patient was in a better mental state because there was no constant reminder of everything that her illness has made her sacrifice. The loud noise that the speaker is referring to are her thoughts, before the tulips were in the room they did not think much about their previous life, their mindset was more in the moment. However, ever since the tulips have been near her mind is full of thoughts referring to how much everything has changed, specifically how much she has changed and she cannot get these thoughts out of her head. This quote opens the opportunity to the fact that along with being physically ill, the patient has started to become mentally ill as well due to the fact that they have been surrounded by things that trigger bad memories. This example relates to the overall theme of the poem because it shows the mental struggles that the speaker has developed throughout the duration of their stay in the hospital. Similes are also used to show the readers fear: “The tulips should be behind bars like dangerous animals” (56). This quote shows that the speaker recognizes what her illness is doing to her mental health and how being reminded about their past only makes them sad. Calling something dangerous shows that the object has the advantage for inflict pain onto something, this directly connects to the feelings that the tulips provide the reader with. Comparing the tulips to dangerous

Linda Pastan made this poem include various forms of figurative language to hide the literal message that it's trying to portray. Figurative language is using figures of speech to make the text be more powerful, persuasive, and meaningful. Figures of speech such as, similes and metaphors, go beyond the literal meanings to give the readers a new way of looking at the text. It can come in multiple ways with different literacy and rhetorical devices such as: alliteration, imageries, onomatopoeias, and etc. With the usage of the literary devices Pastan has used, it introduced the relationship between the mother and the daughter. It shows the memories of how the mother helped her daughter grow from a little girl to a young adult getting ready to go her own way in life.

Analyzing the word, "beautiful" in this stanza, one should perceive that she is not actually singing about the outside of her, but what she consists of emotionally and mentally on the inside. She reveals that her thoughts and emotions are of worth and value and they are of her opinion. They are consumed through her, and no one else and if anyone disagrees, she does not take that into affect. Her diction is actually pretty precise. To quote a famous cliché, beauty is not skin deep. She explains that the beauty is the sentiment.