Spoken Word Analysis.
It’s name is depression
By FureWithin
In this spoken word, the writer is telling us about the difficulties and depression she has and each day is just another day to suffer. We know that the writer is suicidal because of the things she has to deal with, and everyday at 3am, she is drinking and after that, swallowing a pill. The quotation to prove this is “The glass of wine is glued to my fingertips, it's past 3 am when a pill slips between my lips and one single thought grips itself around my throat and makes me write a suicide note while i choke on the truth that my youth is nothing but pathetic.” (1:05). One of the literary devices used is imagery.The writer is telling us the time which is 3am, so we know that it is very late. She then has a glass of wine and after drinking the wine, she swallows a pill and then feels that is choking and makes her want to write a suicide note. It is way common for teens to be suicidal due to the fact that they have to
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She is saying that in a class of 30 students, she is just on her own, staring [IDK] on a screen and not having any power to learn about something that she doesn’t even care about. She just goes home depressed and repeats the cycle. She uses repetition on the word “repeat” in the quotation “...and i walk home and go to sleep, just to repeat and repeat and repeat” (1:55) three times showing that it keeps going on everyday and she has no motivation to live life. She is using symbols to refer depression as a “monster” and as a “pet and she feeds it well. I hate how much I love it. It’s name is depression.” (2:43). The quote means that she sleeps every night with her “pet” who is a monster and she cant get rid of it and it is a part of her life. Another quote is “I’m sitting here, in my house, in my home, staring at the black walls…” (0:27). In this quote, she is referring that she is stuck in depression and he made herself depressed
In the next lines “Just come back from the club” someone has come to her place to visit her, this person maybe a friend or family came at random. “I can 't hear her breathing.” When hearing someone breathing this could mean that the person is probably sobbing, he does not why, but he can sense something is out of place not just from the sobbing but sometimes we can feel when something bad is going to happen or is happening “Something doesn 't seem right.” He then realizes that this person was attacked and her perpetrator is looking for a way to hurt her more “Killer in the hallway” He knows that there is not time and he needs to help her before her attacker gets to her and hurts her more or even kill her. “We 're living on a set time” sometimes there is not time to think too much about our actions, we need to act before it 's too late, sometimes we just need to take action “We gotta get out, Go far away” It is our life and we need to do something about it even if it seems like a mission
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Dear Butler, after reading your story “Speech Sounds”, made a positive and great impression on me which are unexplainable and reminisced over the events while I had in my childhood.
On June 12, 1987, President Ronald Reagan visited the Brandenburg Gate in Germany’s capital of Berlin. In 1987, Berlin was celebrating its 750th anniversary and was host to the most dramatic symbol of the cold war, the Berlin Wall. After World War II, the Allies divided Germany among the victors, the western half under democratic control and the eastern half under communist control. Berlin too was divided just as Germany into east and west sectors and the Soviet Union erected a physical barrier in 1961 in order to quell the rampant migration of defectors to the democratic West. From the 1940’s to the 1980’s the United States and the Soviet Union had been staunch political adversaries embraced in a contest for democracy and communism (History.com Staff, 2009).
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