The Demon Days are Done The Gorillaz’s 2005 critically acclaimed album Demon Days provided a much greater purpose to the up and coming generation than society had preconceived; it was much more than just rebellious, auto tuned album for teens to high with. The album’s true focus was to discuss the interplay of conformity and resistance in the face of oppression. The Gorillaz were on a mission to make the new generation’s voice heard over the injustice they were confronted with: racism, violence, loss of faith (specifically the loss of faith in religion) and the strive to restore the peace and innocence there once was in the world. I’ll quickly touch base on the first and shortest track on the album: Intro. This track is only a minute and …show more content…
In this song, it’s a metaphor based off of the city Centralia, Pennsylvania, USA. Because of greed of those in government, the city was mined dangerously, causing a coal seam to leak. The entire city is now constantly on fire and the small population of 1000 people is now less than a quarter of it’s original size. This song beautifully paints a picture of authoritative, greedy figures coming in from outside of countries and cities and taking control over the citizens in order to get the spoils of war and power that they crave. However, it does not end there. Instead, this song gives the underlying message of being careful what you wish for. The Strangefolk did not listen to the Happyfolk when they told them to stop, ignoring their pleas and warnings of the danger. The Strangefolk were too full of their own greed that it lead to their downfall, and ultimately a death not only among the guilty, but the innocent ones that were dragged down …show more content…
The first verse opens by talking about how cold and empty these demon days are, that even though the days are hard you must continue to love yourself or else risk losing yourself and your soul all together. The verses continue on in the like-repetition we saw in Dirty Harry where the second and third verse repeat in a strain for emphasis. These verses explain how hard it is to be human, to even just survive, that you can’t even trust simple things like the air in your lungs because everyone has an alternative motive. It then goes on to explain that when your own world becomes so chaotic that the lies eventually become what you are truly living, you need to love yourself since that’s the one thing you can trust to have left, to treat every new day as a gift and turn yourself around to the soul which here means to do what’s
For example, one line, “Soon our pilgrimage will cease; Soon our happy hearts will quiver, with the melody of peace,” which is saying that one day we will die, and you can’t stop that. “Lay we every burden down; Grace our spirits will deliver, and provide a robe and a crown,” also reveals that you should appreciate what we’ve had, and what was given to us. This song is telling you, in every line, that you can’t live forever, but appreciate what you have, while you
The emotions that are found in the song is him feeling hopeless and unable to do anything. The song states, “It’s hard to beat the system when we’re standing at a distance.” This goes back to the song because he is afraid of doing something so he stands back from the problem. The song also states, “Now if we had the power to bring our neighbors
Principal themes in the poem consist of consumerism, capitalism, and most importantly greed. The poem described the journey of the poet as he went--goes through an implied spiritual transformation starting with getting annoyed with one of his students wanting to yell at him “how full of shit” he is, after that he recalled his dream, after dowsing off, he recalled something else a poem by Karl Marx a major communist. “I was listening to cries of the past when I should have been listening to the cries of the future,” after the fact, he came to an understanding with the student while imagining the mediforeical nightmare. Grouping themes together there are dreams, nightmares, waking life, dream life, sleeping, and clarity exactly, and being aware that the person is dreaming. When Hoagland references people drowning in the river, it could be compared to people working across seas in different countries, manufacturing goods for the average American while the workers live in harsh environments, but no one thinks of that when running around in new Nike shoes. The “you” in the pleasure boat is American people or America frankly, or even the ideals of consumerism were the normal person needs a new IPhone ever year when it is released. In the poets dream when he talks about stabbing his father and “Ben Fra...
So what does all this mean? To use as an analogy, let’s take a boxer for example. He is going to train for the upcoming fight. He is going to study his opponent, watch his moves, look for his weak points, and practice his own technique, because he seems to know what he is up against. He is going to train, train, train and train some more.
In the first line, he writes, “Out of the night that covers me.” “Night” evokes images of the darkness and emptiness that has taken over the speaker’s life. Henley then objectifies the speaker’s suffering, by comparing it to a vast, empty “pit.” In the second stanza, Henley uses analogy to continue the description of the speaker’s suffering, by attributing animalistic qualities to the abstract concept of “circumstance.” He compares the relation between “circumstance” and the speaker to the relation between a predator and its prey. Line 6, “In the fell clutch of circumstance,” instills the image of the grip of a predator on its prey. The speaker is being held in the tight grip of a tragic circumstance, and is extremely close to death. Though cursed with a great burden, the speaker does not “wince nor cry aloud,” that is, complain vociferously about his pain,
The third stanza starts by saying, “And when I could no longer look, I blest His name that gave and took,” (107). After everything was over she realized that God had given her everything she had lost in the fire, and that she could once again receive those things from God. This relates to me being robbed in the fact that everything I lost was something that was not needed. This helped me to realize that material things aren’t going to make you happy, but the Love of God is.
The second and third line "Blood on the leaves and blood at the root/Black bodies swingin' in the southern breeze" Is a symbol to resemble how people in the south would brutishly beat down black people and then hang them in a tree and watch them swing back and forth when a wind blew. In line eight and nine "the sudden smell of burnin flesh/Here is a fruit for the crows to pluck" were both lines if imagery identifying that not only did they burn the bodies in the trees but most times people would try to get rid of crows but the people who were hung were practically hung for the crows to feed on instead of crops. Strange Fruit is a song that strikes pain and fear in many hearts and memories of ...
If you listen to verse 4 it say’s ( The talk of the town ), the town is actually my 6 brothers when they talk like they're the boss i go up to my room. In verse 5 it say’s ( Someone's talking back ), It's my great grandpa Cowling he is talking back to me.
The second verse tells us about the many attempts the mentor has made to rejuvenate the teens life, ?Lay down a list of what is wrong/The things you've told him all along.? The last two lines in the second verse are repeated ?and pray to God he hears you/and pray to God he hears you? which is emphasizes the angst of the mentor because of the numerous times he has tried to save the teen.
The second stanza starts off saying much the same thing. It expands upon the idea of wanting the Lord to mold his heart an...
... place in the house after the death. The line, “Is solemnest of industries” uses the word industry, which conjures an image of an assembly line and a ritual of going through the motions with little thought going into it. The turn before the second stanza shifts the focus from the mourning process to the recovery process. Through the metaphor of “Sweeping up the Heart” like with a broom, the living are urged to clear the pain and sadness out of their hearts. The final lines leave the message that you should not waste your love or emotions about the deceased for when they are dead but to save them until you join them in death. The last line, “Until Eternity-” implies some sort of afterlife where you could share these sentiments with them and see them again, which is enhanced by the use of the dash at the end to lend mystery and uncertainty to what eternity will hold.
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The first three verses are about other people and the repition is to give it atmosphere.
In "The Demon Lover," by Elizabeth Bowen, Kathleen Drover returns to London from her house in the country in order to gather some things that she and her husband had abandoned during the bombings of the war. It is a humid, rainy day in late August and her once familiar street is now mostly deserted. The caretaker of her house is supposed to be out of town for a week and her arrival is assumed unknown. Mrs. Drover enters the old musty house and discovers a letter addressed to herself and it is marked with the present date. Curious to know if the caretaker is back in town and a little annoyed by the letter seeming to have no urgency in being mailed to her, she proceeds upstairs to her old bedroom to read it. In utter shock and complete horror, Mrs, Drover realizes that the letter is from her dead fiancé from twenty-five years ago. The letter is written in a threatening tone and is very vague but refers to a promise that she made to him and it is apparent that he plans to meet with her at the "agreed upon hour" to fulfill the promise. She can not remember what promise she had made was nor had any idea of what time he intended to meet, but she, in a panic of terror, flees the house. She proceeds to go to the town square where she might be safe and hails a cab. Mrs. Drover gets into the cab that almost seems to be waiting for her and as the driver turns to look back through the partition her jaw drops open and she proceeds to scream and helplessly beat on the glass. The driver then speeds off onto the deserted street and takes her away. We are led to believe that the driver is indeed the demonic lover that has captured her and going to force the promise to be fulfilled. Through this bone chilling suspenseful story, Bo...