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A 10 page research paper that analyzes and discusses six popular songs and their use of metaphors. The writer draws on each song's lyrics in offering this personal analysis. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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was he heard on the radio, which was a diverse mix of artists, "the Beatles and the Rolling Stones side by side with bits of Mozart, Beethoven, Glenn Miller and
even the blues. This was my musical education" (Gordon 2008). As this indicates, while Sumner professes a love for wide variety of music, his orientation is primarily towards popular
music and his own songwriting falls into this category. In regards to songwriting, he stresses the importance of metaphor, stating, "You cant write a song without a metaphor. You can
mechanically construct verses, choruses, bridges, middle eights, but without a central metaphor, you aint got nothing" (Sumner 2008). The following examination of six popular song looks specifically at the way
in which they incorporate and use metaphors or do not make use of metaphor. Debbie Harry and Chris Steins "Heart of Glass" is one of the biggest hits for
their group "Blondie," which was popular in the 1980s. This love songs central metaphor is that the true love that the singer thought she had found turned out to have
a "heart of glass," that is, love was false, in the same way that a fake diamond can be made of glass. The opening lyrics are reprised throughout the song,
but other support metaphors are also created that emphasis the illusionary quality of attraction that deludes the singer into thinking that she has found true love. For example,
the fourth stanza begins similarly to the first with the phrase "Once I had a love," but instead of being a "gas, love is described as divine, which has essentially
the same connotation as "gas," i.e., love is fun, but the substitution of "divine" allows for the introduction of the phrase "I was losing my mind" (Harry and Stein n.d.).
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