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The song I chose to analyze is called Built to Fall by Trivium. Trivium is a Metalcore band that had just recently released an album called In Waves. The reason why I chose this song is because the album In Waves was made to give listeners the opportune to interpret songs in their own way. The whole album adds a mix of lyrical and artistic poetic devices throughout every song, which is why I decided to analyze one song from the album called Built to Fall.
The first line says "you are a cancer spreading it's wings" this line is actually a metaphor in that the person is being described as a cancer growing (hence"spreading it's wings). This next line reads "so selfishly unaware to the things", which contains rhyme with wings and things. Let me also say this before we continue, this poem has a story that it tells, so in this sense it is considered a ballad. The next stanza is also filled with very descriptive metaphorical writhing. " you start as a fissure, a crack in the skin, you become an ulcer permeating" This is once again a metaphor expressing the person "spreading". Actually, I'll just name off all of the parts that contain similes and metaphors in the song. The whole fourth stanza( the chorus) is a metaphor. And the sixth stanza is also a metaphor. I will state this, sometimes the things repeat (chorus) so I will not repeat them. Repetition joins in where the singer says "your built to fall several times and when he says "you've got you war against my head, push that button make it end". This song is an ode to someone that the writers are talking about, and in my interpretation, someone in their life that has passed. This song is filled with enjambment in most of the stanzas. In a nutshell, that is the song.
The song I chose to analyze is called Built to Fall by Trivium. Trivium is a Metalcore band that had just recently released an album called In Waves. The reason why I chose this song is because the album In Waves was made to give listeners the opportune to interpret songs in their own way. The whole album adds a mix of lyrical and artistic poetic devices throughout every song, which is why I decided to analyze one song from the album called Built to Fall.
The first line says "you are a cancer spreading it's wings" this line is actually a metaphor in that the person is being described as a cancer growing (hence"spreading it's wings). This next line reads "so selfishly unaware to the things", which contains rhyme with wings and things. Let me also say this before we continue, this poem has a story that it tells, so in this sense it is considered a ballad. The next stanza is also filled with very descriptive metaphorical writhing. " you start as a fissure, a crack in the skin, you become an ulcer permeating" This is once again a metaphor expressing the person "spreading". Actually, I'll just name off all of the parts that contain similes and metaphors in the song. The whole fourth stanza( the chorus) is a metaphor. And the sixth stanza is also a metaphor. I will state this, sometimes the things repeat (chorus) so I will not repeat them. Repetition joins in where the singer says "your built to fall several times and when he says "you've got you war against my head, push that button make it end". This song is an ode to someone that the writers are talking about, and in my interpretation, someone in their life that has passed. This song is filled with enjambment in most of the stanzas. In a nutshell, that is the song.
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