“Flares” is the sixth track in The Script album: “No Sound without Silence”. Based on the context of this song, “Flares” tells that someone who is fighting for her life and she is doing her hard process of life. It seems that there is no one cares about her, but actually there is still a hope or even a miracle that can help her and even change her life. In short, it talks about a struggle of life. A help will always come for people who need it. We do not need to be worry and doubt about it since God will always send his blessings through people around us. What we need to do when we are down is always believe that there will be help and have a faith of the help. Believing for someone is also important, when we feel alone then it is better to …show more content…
Since the flares represent a help or miracle, the light that comes from the flares represents the real help and miracle that truly come to her life and it is kind of so much help come to her. The help might come from many people so that it makes her happy and gets her faith to live again. Besides, the 11th and 13 also tells that the hopes will come to her life. Flares in the 14th line also mean helps, hopes, and a miracle. The next type of figurative language is rhetorical question. According to Jay (2003), “rhetorical questions are not meant to be answered. They operate more like statements”. They mainly serve the purposes of making clarification and expressing negative emotions. There are eleven lines of rhetorical questions written which are the 1st, 2nd, 5th, 6th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 15th, and 16th lines. The first line tells that someone loses things that might not go back, and in this context it is a hope. It means that she loses a hope of life that might not go back. Then, in a matter of love, someone has to learn from it because there are a lot of things and experiences exist, but here she does not. She does not learn something from loving another as it is stated in the 2nd
She starts by using words like “lost, sunk” which shows the lack of understanding as she looks towards Tinker Creek. All of a sudden, she sees what looks “like a Martian spaceship”. She uses simile to compare what she sees as otherworldly or magical because a Martian spaceship is not from this world. She describes that “it flashed borrowed light like a propeller”. So as the object is coming down, it brings with it “light” or a revelation. Then she goes on to portray it as “pirouetting and twirling”, words which are often associated with the dance, ballet and is
...ors to describe her life and situation. This comes primarily from the fact that in her therapy sessions that is how she is taught to deal with everything. For example, one metaphor she talks about is “… she comes up with the idea of lighting candles to symbolize my past, present, and future…I’ve noticed my past melting… my present candle has stayed pretty much the same,” (D 266). She explains them as her past is become less controlling, her present is her and concrete ideas and her future is bright and untouched. These metaphors show how much she has grown and allow the things she is learning to have more meaning. All of these combine to make the piece very effective and insightful. They help to get her point across and call people to action to help against these crimes.
Though rhetoric is an art, and though effective rhetoric demands attention to style, timing, and knowledge, there are other elements that require attention. There are numerous ethical and emotional dimensions that function within rhetoric. These dimensions are immeasurably important, particularly given the epistemological and relativistic nature of rhetoric.
... from the many things she regrets. She does not want to feel regret for giving up all the opportunity she had, however she cannot ever achieve that again. The author continues on with "Her meanings lost in manners, she will walk Alone in brilliant circles to the end." The woman has lost her education, her beauty, her skills, talent, and glory. She is left alone. She has lost herself.
This duality is concealed within a character because the darkness(truth) conflicts with the light(dreams/hopes) when we hold onto our desire to unite ourselves with our true lover. The author reveals that the light of the “sunset” represents the strength, by illuminating that days are going by, but the true lover still sticks to their strength. The author portrays darkness through the “death” of the“lilacs” representing the inevitable truth that one has to face when holding onto their desire to meet their true love. Parker illustrates that one whose “eyes are deep with yearning”, will persist to their strength until their determination does not overcome the obstacles preventing one from accessing true love, embracing love as a natural and beautiful thing. “Deep” represents her strength and “yearning” is symbolic of her desire to meet her husband. “Yearning” adds a sense of beauty and “deep” illuminates a depth to her strength and how it can overpower obstacles in her life. The author blends “deep” with “yearning” to enhance and illustrate that when we hold a desire we have to deepen our strength and embrace it to achieve what we aspire. The image of “an old, old, gate” where “the lady wait[s]” emphasizes the idea that her husband’s death is “old”; it occurred many years ago, but
Performing a rhetorical analysis on an article written within my desired occupational field will unfold specialized questions that need to be asked and the necessary characteristics of rhetorical choices that are considered
In the second stanza, the speaker visualizes images within the starry night and a muddy shoreline that symbolize individuals experiencing death-defying events. In line 8, the speaker states “Names printed on the ceiling of the night.” He is referring to the pattern of stars that draw great figures of Greek Gods, like Mars who is related to strength, energ...
Firstly I will be exploring metaphor as it is used so much in this poem. The first metaphor which I will examine is “Haunting Flares” on line 3 of the first stanza. This quote has so many connotations, my first opinion on this was that the flares which the enemy are firing to light up the battlefield are said to be representing the souls of the soldiers fallen comrades. This could also be said to represent the power the enemy has on their own mortality as the bright flares would light up the battle-field exposing everything to their view, this indicates that the enemy always seem to have power upon the soldiers, almost godly. The second metaphor which I will explore is: “An ecstasy of fumbling” in line one of the second stanza.
The speaker introduces the idea of the natural cycle of life, where something becomes born and eventually dies. This reflects back to the Native culture where the cycle of life was much celebrated. The idea of "death and birth" symbolizes the speaker 's love that was once born to die in the end. It also symbolizes the pleasure and pain that comes with falling in love. She was born again with the new knowledge and pleasure the love had to offer. However, it is an undeniable fact that the same love that gave her so much joy at one point, gave her just as much pain. A part of her past- self had to die in order for the speaker to be reborn.
Stokely strongly uses many rhetorical questions in his speech to get the audience’s thoughts active and running as he goes on. As he discusses on how the
In the first few stanzas the poet creates the impression that she accepts losing objects as something so trivial and exceedingly small that it does not flip her. life upside down but as the poem continues her emotions are leaked and the readers are able to witness her true feelings as the thing she loses becomes greater in value to her. The poem is about the speaker's notion, that losing things in life is an art and that it is not. hard to master such an art because everything “is filled with the intent to be lost. ”(1:2)
The song is interesting because reading the lyrics, listening to the song, and watching the music video all give different meanings about the song. Reading the lyrics suggests that the song is a depressing story about the inner turmoil the writer is feeling and how he is not sure what to do with his life. But after listening to this upbeat and happy song, it seems like it may not be as dreary as it seemed at first. After watching the music video the message can be reinterpreted to be about the internal conflicts of a soldier fighting in a war and he does not know what he is fighting for. The fact that the music completely changes how the lyrics are interpreted is interesting. Nate uses many literary techniques to make this song mysterious and open to interpretation depending on how it is experienced.
In this song The Fray takes great effort to convey the point of talking with the youth of today about making the correct decisions that will have a large affect upon one's life. Although the song in no way forces the narrators thoughts and ideas upon the youth they still firmly instill the knowledge of his choices impact on his future. Ideally this would be a guideline, an alarm of hope, a script on how to one day "save a life."
These three metaphors exemplify beauty, but also an end to nature and life. Death is slowly creeping up to him and taking over his life as realized in this comparison of him to nature. The poem shows the need to seize the moment in life before death. The last couplet talks about the topic of love and the power of it. Love lasts through the struggles in life, and the changes of seasons. Love of life keeps us from realizing that an end will eventually come. “This thou perciev’st, which makes thy love more strong.” Encompasses the idea that although everything comes to an end, love still fuels everything within a person. He realizes everything will come to an end and death is inevitable but the passion is still
Within No Second Troy, the use of rhetorical questions gives the effect of a soliloquy or a monologue, of a man talking to himself in an informal way, shown by the use of enjambment. The questions also act as a tool to present confusion within the speaker.