Ed Sheeran is an English singer-songwriter musician. Sheeran produced the song, The A Team, after performing at a women’s shelter when he was 18. The prostitution and drugs stories that he heard encouraged him to compose a song about their struggles. His purpose was to discreetly show the tough lives of these women and the struggles that they face every day because of their addictions. He achieves this through his word choices, which not only suggests the purpose but also creates vivid images. The A Team is filled with figurative language and symbols, the most noticeable of which being the comparison of angels to the women who sell themselves for drugs. These poetic devices are all present in The A Team, making it an excellent choice for the …show more content…
Sheeran uses simple words to express a massive topic so that others might be able to see the lives of female drug addicts. His words are selected from their meanings and also as their connotations. Even the title of the song, The A Team, has a particular song meaning. The song uses examples of drug addiction particularly a “Class A” drug, cocaine/crack, which gives a much stronger expression of what the song is about. When Sheeran says “Go mad for a couple grams,” the actual meaning is grams of cocaine. When he says “We’ll fade out tonight. Straight down the line,” it is taken that he means “We’ll get high snorting a line of cocaine.” The connotations, bring up emotions such as worthlessness, rage, and absurdity. Society shows drug addicts as wild, unreliable, broken people who have misused their potential, instead giving their energy and resources towards feeding an endless addiction. These connotations give the listener a sense of the emotions that the drug user and those around her are feeling. Through his use of carefully chosen vocabulary, Ed Sheeran produces a worthy song choice for the next addition of Form and …show more content…
These poetic devices not only help develop the imagery that Sheeran utilizes, but also gives deeper importance and meaning to the language. With the line, “Her face seems / Slowly sinking, wasting” and simile “Crumbling like pastries,” the listener visualizes a person whose deep, dark circles under her tired weary eyes grow darker each day as she weakens. A person whose whole life is deteriorating around her, and whom spends torturing nights in bed with unknown men just so she can afford to live. Not only does Sheeran reveal them to the hardships may women in the world have to go through but he also asks listeners to feel the emotions they feel and to empathize with them. He further expresses their hardships through his different symbolic images. There are several symbols throughout The A Team. For instance, one of the symbols used is “snowflakes.” When Sheeran sings, “Breathing in snowflakes,” he doesn’t actually mean this. “Snowflakes” is symbolic for crack, the drug that the woman is addicted to in the song. Sheeran’s strong language choices is apparent through his uses of figurative language and symbolism to the song, which would be an excellent choice for the next addition of Form and
This song became the perfect background for PSA's. Maybe, after all, there was more to this band than sexuality and drugs. This album has a bit of each of the necessary elements to become a hit. In fact, it has. much more than that.
"Fog," she immerses the reader’s senses in the entirety of the moment’s external grace and its secret inner core. Clampitt seeks out what is hidden from the eye. She wants what the camera cannot record. Her subject allows her to show off poetry’s distinct function and strength. Fog obscures, shrouds, limits, dissolves; it defeats sight.
The album was created in less than a year. They gained inspiration from the music of many rock bands, such as Kerry King from Slayer. While listening to the album, the lyrics are mostly about women, drugs, rebelling against parents and partying. The sound of the album from song to song is very different, yet each song has a similar base cord. Each song in the album has a consistent beat while they rap, with small bursts of sound that transitions the lyrics to a faster or slower pace.... ...
In this song, she sings about events that have oppressed the African American people and other ethnicities in the United States for many years. In the song she states (line 60) “Mafia with diplomas keeping us in a coma trying to own a piece, of the "American Corona”, The Revolving Door, Insanity every floor, Skyscraping, paper chasing, What are we working for? Empty traditions, Reaching social positions, Teaching ambition to support the family superstition?” In this part of the song she is saying that everyone today is trying to be successful and trying to accomplish the American dream. She says that trying too hard to be successful is toxic and it will mess with one’s traditions that he or she does. She also is saying that in some ways it will mess with one’s social abilities with one’s family and friends. Success is only good if one is doing good and feeling good in the end. It is not good when there is no good in involved. Therefore, that’s why she calls it
The Spanish words used in this song are: drogas, tiempo, yesca, jale, morena, and Vato. Drogas means drugs in English and tiempo means time in English. Yesca, means weed or marijuana in Spanish. Jale, is the conjugated form of the verb to pull in Spanish. When D.L. Downer says “Got to feed mi Jale…” (Suga Boom Boom) he is saying that he has to feed his addiction, he has to get more drugs. Morena, means dark-haired and/or dark-skinned woman in English. When Downer says “Fine little morena black on black even her eyes” (Suga Boom Boom) he is saying that she has dark hair, skin, and eyes. Vato, means dude or guy in English, but it has a negative connotation as a guy that you do not like or get along with. Downer refers to “chasing dragons,” a total of nine times, including once in the title. As described in the Urban Dictionary, chasing dragons refers to the high that you get the first few times you smoke opium, it makes the person happy, and makes all the troubles go away, but the rest of the time you are fiening for that high again but it gets harder and harder making you want to smoke more and more until you have nothing
As the tone changes the perspective of the reader changes as well. There is no clear way to determine whether the speaker is responding to her situation with the appropriate amount of madness or is actually going mad and escaping into her own mind. Plath’s poem shows how a woman 's happiness was defined by her relationship to a man, which is enough to infuriate or drive any woman insane. The speaker struggles to continue her very existence because of her lost love. It is true that the speaker is very emotional and feels things very deeply, but that is not enough to prove that she had lost her mind. By the end of the poem the speaker seems to realize that she is wasting her time waiting on a man. She would rather have a present love that is completely unfathomable than a real love that is not around. The repetition in this poem makes the reader believe this loss is actually causing the speaker to lose her mind, but through changing tones that mirror the emotions anyone would go through in a situation of loss like this the speaker’s response is completely
The relevance of the song was portraying that using drugs and alcohol will help you escape life situations. Regardless of how hard or tough it is. All you need to do is to get drunk or get high, than your problems will flush away. But the video don’t explain the reality of the outcome of how drugs and alcohol will or could affect your lifestyle and how it could lead you to lose your job, family and life. All it shows is the fun side of being intoxicated. Which, it raises a big flag on kids or teens that do have access to the media like the
The poem “The Ruined Maid” by Thomas Hardy tells the story of two women who run into each other in town and begin discussing the changes one has recently experienced. Melia, since seeing her friend, has become a prostitute and acquired luxuries. Her friend, a country girl, only notices Melia’s extravagance and admires what she has become, despite Melia’s ruin. Utilizing verb tense, ironic tone, and revelatory word choice, Hardy illustrates that Melia’s change in lifestyle does not lead her to abandon her true nature, but rather only changes her circumstances. Through the use of past and present verb tense, Hardy uncovers Melia’s life prior ruin, highlighting the contrast to her current lifestyle.
The structure of “The A Team” by Ed Sheeran is very powerful. It is deliberately structured to make the listener feel the pain of the character in the song making use of various figures of speech
This song doesn’t only deal with sensory description; it also deals with figurative language. One example of figurative language is used by Ludacris when he says "I don't know, but you gotta stop trippin." The word trippin doesn’t actually mean tripping and falling, it means you have to stop worrying. He uses this word to relate to the different kind of people who listen to this song. Ludacris also uses figurative language when he says "Used to play back then, now you all grown-up like Rudy Huxtable." This figurative language is a simile, because he is comparing growing up to Rudy Huxtable, using the word like. Finally the last piece of figurative language is used by Usher when he says "Got me fiendin' like Jodeci." This also is a form of a simile, because he is stating that he has and urge like Jodeci by using the word like. That is part of the definition of a simile. Songs do not only deal with sensory description, but also figurative language.
This, in fact, is an example of “dynamic decomposition” of which the speaker claims she understands nothing. The ironic contradiction of form and content underlines the contradiction between the women’s presentation of her outer self and that of her inner self. The poem concludes with the line “’Let us go home she is tired and wants to go to bed.’” which is a statement made by the man. Hence, it “appears to give the last word to the men” but, in reality, it mirrors the poem’s opening lines and emphasises the role the woman assumes on the outside as well as her inner awareness and criticism. This echoes Loy’s proclamation in her “Feminist Manifesto” in which she states that women should “[l]eave off looking to men to find out what [they] are not [but] seek within [themselves] to find out what [they] are”. Therefore, the poem presents a “new woman” confined in the traditional social order but resisting it as she is aware and critical of
This assignment introduced me to the sound and message of the rapping duo: Black Sheep. The group consist of New York natives Dres and Mista Lawnge. My search for the album to review started with skimming through the table of context of Brian Coleman’s Check the Technique Volume 2 and listening to snippets of each album. I initially was going to review a 3rd bass album because of the familiar samples; however, one song from the Black Sheep album stood out and made this album a clear choice. In this assignment, I hope to examine most tracks on the album and analyze the collective message of this twenty-two track project.
In Coldplay’s song, “Paradise”, the songwriters use exaggerative language, personification, and rhetorical techniques to tell the story of a little girl’s escape from the harshness and disappointment of reality. The listeners of this song are treated to a beautifully written story about a girl’s maturity through the struggles and disappointment that life has offered to her. Some of the most effective ways that the songwriters explain the plight of the girl are when they attach the listener emotionally with her plight through their use of exaggerated language and personification. Ultimately, the girl copes with her situation and shows signs of maturity; which, enforces the emotional connection that the audience feels with her.
He creates a suffocating atmosphere mirroring the characters feeling: “crowding in on her thick and fast”, “The passage of an old woman with ophthalmia and a disease of the skin distracted her from her
In the poem “A song of Despair” Pablo Neruda chronicles the reminiscence of a love between two characters, with the perspective of the speaker being shown in which the changes in their relationship from once fruitful to a now broken and finished past was shown. From this Neruda attempts to showcase the significance of contrasting imagery to demonstrate the Speaker’s various emotions felt throughout experience. This contrasting imagery specifically develops the reader’s understanding of abandonment, sadness, change, and memory. The significant features Neruda uses to accomplish this include: similes, nautical imagery, floral imagery, and apostrophe.