Sunday, March 21, 2010

Metaphor in Country Music

The song "Love Story" by Taylor Swift includes examples of metaphors in it's lyrics. For example, the line "Cause you were Romeo, I was a scarlet letter" is a mixed metaphor, because Romeo was in love with Juliet, and the girl from The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne, was a whore who had her minister's love child.


The song "She's My Kind Of Rain" by Tim McGraw has many literary devices in it, including metaphors. The line "She's the sunset's shadow, she's like Rembrandt’s light, she's the history that's made at night, she's my lost companion, she's my dreamin' tree, together in this brief eternity" is an extended metaphor, showing that his wife is everything in his life.

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