Comparing Two Metaphors

Why be someone else when you can be you, different from everyone else. Many songs, poems, or even movies give reasons like this today and share a common theme of being oneself. In both the song “Who Says” by Selena Gomez and the poem “My New Year’s Eve Prayer” by Jeff Buckley and Cori MacNaughton they share a common theme of being oneself, but they also have their difference of actions and about self-confidence. In the song lyrics “Who Says” by Selena Gomez, she uses metaphors to get her point acrossed. The first metaphor she uses is in the first verse, stanza two line four, “When you’re a diamond in the rough?” This metaphor is saying that they one may be a decent person but lacks other qualities, but just because they lack other qualities

The first metaphor used is in stanza two line one and it reads, “You, my love, are allowed to shed the weight/of all the years before”The metaphor is the part where it says “shed the weight”. When the authors wrote shed the weight they did not literal mean shed the weight, but something more. They wanted to use that to say that she is allowed to shed memoires of the past and start all over. She is allowed to forget what had happened in the years before. Where as the authors can not forget the past, but she is allowed to do what she wants and can forget the bad times. This relates to the theme of the poem because the theme is do you, so if that is what she needs to do then she can go ahead and shed the memories/weight away. This is only one of multiple metaphors the authors use to illustrate the theme of the poem. Another example of a metaphor used in the poem is found in stanza 10 line 1, “You, my love, are allowed to speak in kisses”. This is a metaphor, because one cannot actually speak in kisses, so it is saying that she can show love to others around her. Even though he loves her it is okay that she shows love to others, around her and above her. He is accepting of that. This stanza can also fall in the category of beautiful language, or figurative language. It can be classified as beautiful language because of the words and it

Stanza 5 live three the first hyperbole, “if you’ve lost your ability to speak”, is found. In this line, where it reads lost your ability to speak is an exaggeration, even though it can happen. In this case, specifically, it is not talking about actually losing ones voice. The authors are trying to get across that if she is to upset or has a loss of words that she does not know what to say then it is okay. Therefore exaggerating that she has lost her capability to talk because she can she just does not want to. This is also a metaphor in a way because it is signifying that she is upset and does not want to talk, even though she is capable of speaking. Another hyperbole used in the poem found in stanza 7 line 1 reads, “You, my love, are allowed to beat the shit out of your television.” The authors use a hyperbole in this line because it is much embellished to allow someone to ruin their television. For someone to do that and say that it is okay is not accurate. These hyperboles relate to the theme of the poem because it is showing how he does not care what she does. She cannot talk or she can beat up a television for all this guy cares because he loves her enough therefore it is saying to be oneself and do what one wants to do even if others care or do not