Trenton DeBacker                                8th                                        11/19/14

Figurative Language in a Song

One by Metallica

I Can't Remember Anything

Can't Tell If this Is True or Dream

Deep down Inside I Feel to Scream

this Terrible Silence Stops Me

Now That the War Is Through with Me

I'm Waking up I Can Not See

That There's Not Much Left of Me

Nothing Is Real but Pain Now

Hold My Breath as I Wish for Death

Oh Please God, Wake Me

Back in the Womb it's Much Too Real

in Pumps Life That I must Feel

but Can't Look Forward to Reveal

Look to the Time When I'll Live

Fed Through the Tube That Sticks in Me

Just like a Wartime Novelty

Tied to Machines That Make Me Be

Cut this Life off from Me

Hold My Breath as I Wish for Death

Oh Please God,wake Me

Similie        Personification        Hyperbole        Metaphor

Metallica. "Music Video A2 Project." : Music Video Analysis. Awesome, Inc., 13 Oct. 2010. Web. 01 Dec. 2014

This picture symbolizes a guy who came back from war and lost all of his limbs. His other senses have disappeared when being blown up by a landmine. This guy can’t see, hear, feel, talk, but he can still think. He feels like an inbetween state of life and death and wants to just go to heaven. The guy only wants to die to go to a better place, meanwhile he is currently in a state of misery and distress. In the scene above, he is in the hospital repeatedly signalling them to “Kill me”.

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