At first glance, “The Blood Stained Banders” is very much like a homily, telling its listeners how to get to the “other shore”, or heaven. However, there is room for a secondary meaning alongside the first. “If you want to go to heaven, over on the other shore. Keep out of the way of the gunshot devils” could reference slaves fleeing from the South to the North and to freedom, and that they had to avoid slave catchers, or “gunshot devils”.
Twenty One Pilots is trying to say in lines 1 and 2 that he is thinking too much. In lines 7-10, Twenty One Pilots is saying that he doesn’t like it and he needs a distraction from thinking.
BEARS Did you realize that a bear can almost weigh as much as a car and can be strong enough to break parts off of a variety of items? Although they’re shy and easily frightened, you should maintain a distance. How big is a bear?
Although, it is because of his near death experience that he noticed he his job had made him delusional to what really matters. The external conflict of fighting harsh and dangerous conditions on a narrow ledge leads him to rethink how he spent his life, “he would then, abruptly, have had. Nothing“ (). Now, not only is he struggling with the thought of poorly balancing his work and personal life, but he has to stay calm in order to remain on the ledge. This is significant because it proves that sometimes people get caught up on what seems important at the time.
He goes to show how he was ridiculed in life and how he pushed forward and pursued his goals anyways. "I throw my weight against their locked doors. The door holds. I am smart. I am arrogant.
It also says, quite plainly, that he accepts his impending death. He is holding a skull, which rests on a poem he wrote himself and signed T.S.
I say that because when we die, he states that we lose the mask we have on our face. So, he wears it to symbolize that he is still alive, on this Earth. But, it can also mean that we all
By removing the images of what it meant to truly live, placed there by his environment, and looking within himself, his attitude towards death changes to allow a more holistic acceptance of what is to
Symbols are deliberately used in stories to add deeper meaning, not only for the readers but also for the characters themselves. Michael Meyer defines symbol as, "A person, object, image, word, or event that evokes a range of additional meaning beyond and usually more abstract than its literal significance" (Meyer 972). In "Battle Royal" by Ralph Ellison, the narrator struggles to understand his grandfather 's advice, he tries to live by it only to feel as if his grandfather mocks him for it. Throughout the story there are many symbols which seem to suggest a connection to the circus but are not understood by the narrator until he a dreams of them once more. The dream highlights these symbols that compare the lives of African Americans to a
This represents how grace, while coming from the same source, is expanded according to the unique needs and personality of each individual soul. Toward the end of the movie, Bert sings a form of this song with this notable
These four lines are important because as the image of salt in a weakened broth suggests utter dissolution and disorder, it makes the case that in order for the light of freedom and identity to seep through, we have to go through that period of darkness. Nye even uses the metaphor of a bus riding without stop [later in the stanza] to compare it to the presence of loss without kindness (Hong). In the second stanza, Nye emphasizes that realizing one’s ultimate mortality is a prerequisite to kindness when she says, “Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness/you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho/lies dead by the side of the road” (lines 14-16). This lines suggests that in order for humanity to put aside traits that make us different, we have to find solidarity in the fact that is our impending mortality. Nye uses the transcendent image of a dead Indian in a white poncho lying in the road to imply that the idea of mortality connects us all (Hong), even if different people of different backgrounds lead different lives.
In the first three lines of the poem, there is a repetition of “if ever”. It is argued that this repetition of conditionals intensifies the strength of the bond and love between Bradstreet and her husband, in which there is nobody that can “claim greater unity, love or happiness” than the two (Furey 209). In the lines “Thy love is such I can no way repay, The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray”, Bradstreet continues to praise her love of her husband and even assimilates the love to the heavenly rewards in the afterlife. In the final two lines “Then while we live, in love let’s so persevere That when we live no more, we may live
Your little hot self over here. Girl hand me another beer, yeah!”(That’s My Kind of Night, 2013). He talks about having a “big black jacked up truck” and having a pretty girl by his side(That’s My Kind of Night, 2013).
Poe mentions his own world and the difference between the two worlds in the poem as well as Israfel’s world. Poe writes about how different lives can lead to much different personalities. He mentions this in the last half of the poem, or stanzas five through eight. In the last half of the poem, it says, “Yes, Heaven is thine; but this- Is a world of sweets and sours;” in this quote Poe writes that “heaven is thine” which means that heaven is the narrator’s ideal place (Poe 7.1-2). He also mentions that “this is a world of sweets and sours” which means this world, Earth, has both good and bad consequences of living here.
Upon listening and analyzing further, however, one will find that this song has a hidden meaning to which everyone can relate. As the lyrics begin, Springsteen sings, “The screen door slams, Mary's dress waves / Like a vision she dances across the porch
