In Carrie Underwood’s song “Jesus Take the Wheel,” she talks about how someone she knows is losing control of her life because of a very bad car crash and she needs help from Jesus to help her recover. The girl that was in the car crash nearly died and her boyfriend (now her husband) wrote a song about how it was really difficult for her to improve her health and how she needs Jesus to help her through this time. In hopes that his wife would soon get better, he wrote the song “Jesus Take the Wheel” for her and it has won one Grammy Award so far.
The main idea of “Jesus Take the Wheel” (Carrie Underwood) is about this woman’s life and how hard her life is at the beginning of the song and how she turns to Jesus and asks for his forgiveness and
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In the lyrics of this song, Carrie Underwood uses figurative language to help the listeners interpret the theme, or main idea, of “Jesus Take the Wheel.” Some literary devices that Carrie Underwood uses in her song are imagery, metaphor, simile, repetition, and symbolism. For example, “Before she knew it she was spinning on a thin black sheet of glass” (Carrie Underwood) is referring to imagery and the car accident she was in at the start of the song. “And save me from this road I’m on” (Carrie Underwood) is a metaphor, which is interpreting how she is on a bad path and she needs Jesus to help her get back on track. Another example is “baby in the backseat sleeping like a rock” (Carrie Underwood) which is a simile referring to her baby sleeping so soundly that he didn’t even wake up when she had a car accident. Another one of the literary devices is repetition and it is utilized when Carrie Underwood sings “Jesus, take the wheel/ Take it from my hands/ ‘Cause I can’t do this on my
Siekman 3 own/ I’m letting go/ So give me one more chance/ And save me from this road I’m on” (Carrie Underwood). The last literary device that is used in “Jesus Take the Wheel” is symbolism, which can be seen when she sings “Jesus, take the wheel.” This is symbolism because when the girl
The story, “Good Country People,” by Flannery O’Connor, is a third person limited narration which means the reader can only look into the mind of only a few of the characters. Those characters are Mrs. Hopewell and Hulga, or Joy. Schmoop discusses a deeper understanding about the narrator of the story.
This song talks a lot about the baggage of the past that people hold onto instead of letting it go. All that baggage is only going to end up hurting you more and more instead of helping you in any way possible. An example is the opening
Untage writes about how she was never a very social person and can relate the movie back to herself that way. I wrote about how John Mayer’s song “Stop This Train” is about how life is moving too fast, and how life can move by very quickly for a first year college student. We have a similar way that we can relate back to our lives but with completely different topics, and that is the same for every person we all have different back grounds but can all relate to
...ing to your faith. How much you trust God determines how much God mystically enchants you. This lyrics influences listeners encouraging them not to give up and to know that they can make it through faith no matter what.
Mark O’Connor uses an extended metaphor that begins in the second stanza and returns again in the fourth. This technique is used to create a special prominence on the line “high-revving toys”.
Life always seems to have a few bumps in the road. Luke Combs son “ When it rains it pours” is about enjoying the good things in life. Many country artist, like Luke Combs have been through rough times and use their music to teach a lesson. You have to enjoy the little things in life, because life is about how much you can get hit and keep moving forward.In many ways life is like a country song it's taking what life gives you and making what you can out of it.
...to help create a better image and to help viewers or readers really feel what the speaker feels. Lines one, five, eighteen, and twenty-nine to thirty-one clearly state a type of figurative language. In line one, Hunter Hayes uses hyperbole to over exaggerate the fact that without the person he is addressing this song to, he would emotionally fall apart. In line five, the speaker compares a caring person to factors that keep nature happy. Line five uses indirect characterization to show that this girl Hunter Hayes is addressing , has a good heart, not just a beautiful appearance. Lines twenty- nine to thirty-one use a metaphor to compare fairy tales to their everlasting love for each other. “Wanted” by Hunter Hayes and Troy Verges uses figurative language to address the point to someone special that she will always be loved, wanted, and appreciated.
‘Little Toy Guns’ is a song performed spectacularly by Carrie Underwood, and written by Carrie Underwood, Chris DeStefano, and Hillary Lindsey. This heart wrenching song describes a story about children who are dramatically affected by their parents fighting. The song is told from a little girl's point of view. She hides from her parents violent arguments to evade hearing them. Then she goes on to say she wishes their words weren't real, like they were toy guns that didn’t hurt you. Repeatedly she keeps saying, that she wished they were just playing a harmless game, and it doesn’t matter who wins.
The song depicts the energy and the adrenaline the main character gets from racing, but it also shows how it affects his girlfriend. This song depicts a choice the man has to make. Live the life a racecar driver or set aside his dream and give his girlfriend the ability to have the American Dream. The racecar life was not ideal to the girlfriend and Springsteen sings about her sadness and desperation of living the life of a racecar divers girlfriend. The girl craves to live a normal life, or the American Dream, but her boyfriend ultimately has to decide if he wants to sacrifice his dream to give his girlfriend hers. Springsteen sings, “But all of her pretty dreams are torn,” clearly show how concerned and broken this girl is because she craves a different lifestyle (“Racing Streets”). The main character in this song must sacrifice something in order to keep his girlfriend happy, or the girlfriend has to sacrifice a normal life to assure happiness of her boyfriend. Overall, someone must sacrifice his or her
Metaphor is used throughout the song to illustrate the gap between those people and the speaker himself. Metaphor is used to describe something by referring something different but has the same quality. In the lines: “some folks are born made to wave the flag/Ooh, they are red white and blue.” (ll,1-2). Metaphor is used to highlight this group of people who have innate
Just like in literal darkness, the darkness in this song means being completely blinded. This darkness causes an individual to be unable to confidently walk in the direction they want to go because they are unable to see where they are going. They are struggling in knowing where their life is headed since they feel completely lost. The darkness causes them to feel hopeless. Due to their inability to see, they are unable to find the right path in which God wants them to take. In finding the light, an individual is able to see where they are going and are able to choose the path of righteousness. This song is talking about how God is the only one who can show his people where they can find the light because God is the light. Individuals need God to be their light so they do not have to keep fighting the dangers that are in the darkness. In the darkness, we are lost, but with God’s light, we can be
Due to the lack of religious beliefs in High School Musical, the song generally focuses more on the plot of the movie whether than the spiritual sense behind the song itself. In my opinion, the song provides an important life lesson that can be used regardless of your religion. God never expects us to be perfect people. In fact, he likes the idea of imperfect people since he can perform miraculous works through them for the sake of humanity. After the fall of Adam and Eve, God began creating covenants with his people, including our Father in faith, Abraham. He even continues to create covenants with his people today through dreams and other people. For Troy Bolton, I can argue that Jesus works through Gabriella in allowing Troy to realize that he was not being himself when he began to abandon his friends and act with excessive arrogance. Paulo Coelho once said, “The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.” Jesus died for us because of his love for humanity. King David vowed to prevent his people from sinning because of his love for God and his people. Troy Bolton had a change of heart and decided to stop his pursuit for the future that causes him to lose
Furthermore, the literary devices of shift, metaphor, and imagery allude to the positive, hopeful attitude of the song within the warning and advice that the speaker gives his friend. The shift between the story (7-15, 22-31) and the conversation shows when the speaker switches from telling to story to the friend and actually talking to the friend. The story helps to put emphasis on the fact that it’s not too late for the “friend” to start over, or “put the past away”. By mentioning this sad story and suggesting for his friend to get help, the singer presents an overall idea of hope; that the “friend” that they are singing (to?) still has a chance at a normal, happy life.
In the first line, Edward Taylor asks that God be the master spinner behind his spinning wheel self which indicates his desire for the Lord to take control of his life and to use that life to create what He will. He then expounds upon this idea by incorporating many of the parts of a spinning wheel into the analogy. Taylor asks that all that he believes come from the Holy Word (his distaff) and that all that he longs for be kept in line with the Lord's wishes by His "swift flyers". He wants his conversation to spring forth from that which the Lord is creating in him, just as the thread, once spun, does not change in nature as it is wound around the reel. Essentially, in this stanza, he is saying: Lord, take me and mold my heart for I am Yours.
Considering altogether setting, figures of speech and tone we can finally conclude what is this song is about.