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I shall put my English song lyrics essay here..tell me what you think
What is the Truth?
The song “Sunday Bloody Sunday” on the album War by U2 is a war song. It’s more than that, though. This song wants one to see what happens when we think television is reality. Many, many people are dying in war, but people only care about what they see on TV. Television blinds one to the reality of life.
On the surface, this song tells about the horrors of war, which has “mothers, children, brothers, sisters torn apart” (line 21). Also “the trench is dug within our hearts” (line 20) may mean that the regular people hate the enemies because they killed the people they loved, and there’s a “gap,” so to speak, where the loved one’s place in their heart was. Though assuming the people aren’t actually in the war, they still can’t escape it, as said in the lines “I can’t believe the news today / oh, I can’t close my eyes and make it go away” (lines 2-3). “Broken bottles under children’s feet / bodies strewn against the dead end street” (lines 9-10) depicts one of the horrors of war. The next lines, “but I won’t heed the battle call / it puts my back up / puts my back up against the wall” (lines 11-13) could describe a solder in the war who’s just seen these horrors. The soldier is scared, or even sad, so he leans on a wall in sadness or fear.
If one digs deeper into the song, one will see it’s not only about war, but also the consequences of “reality” TV. People get brainwashed (propaganda), and people think the shows, etc. they see on TV is true reality, as seen by “and it’s true we are immune / when fact is fiction and TV reality” (lines 43-44). People are totally immune to the horrors of war if they just watch TV and are never actually in it. Propaganda could say that the war is going great and it’s the best, greatest war ever. In reality, war isn’t great at all, or glorious like it’s shown in most movies. War is about death and sadness, but “we eat and drink while tomorrow they die” (line 46). We go about our daily lives, mostly oblivious (unless you know a loved one, friend, etc. in the war) that people are dying in war, just like that.
A literary device the song uses is irony. We are just going about our lives, eating, drinking, and getting brainwashed, while all these soldiers are dying in war. It also uses the metaphor “the trench is dug within our hearts” (line 20). In World War 1, trenches were dreadful places, consisting of floods, rats, drinking water with dead people in it, etc., and it shows how deeply the people’s hatred is for the enemies, and how badly they’re torn apart. Therefore, the song is bitter and sad.
“Sunday Bloody Sunday” is a song about war, but it’s also about what happens when we watch too much television, don’t have loved ones in the war, and don’t pay attention to events in the world. The song states “how long must we sing this song?” (line 5), meaning “why can’t this war end?” Wars tears people apart, even people in the same country. Too much TV brainwashes people. This song makes a statement that war is a horrible thing, yet people are blind to it by the media.
Today's Latin: sola iuvat virtus (virtue alone helps one)
Well at least I can use Yahoo till get gets fixed (if ever)
I shall put my English song lyrics essay here..tell me what you think
What is the Truth?
The song “Sunday Bloody Sunday” on the album War by U2 is a war song. It’s more than that, though. This song wants one to see what happens when we think television is reality. Many, many people are dying in war, but people only care about what they see on TV. Television blinds one to the reality of life.
On the surface, this song tells about the horrors of war, which has “mothers, children, brothers, sisters torn apart” (line 21). Also “the trench is dug within our hearts” (line 20) may mean that the regular people hate the enemies because they killed the people they loved, and there’s a “gap,” so to speak, where the loved one’s place in their heart was. Though assuming the people aren’t actually in the war, they still can’t escape it, as said in the lines “I can’t believe the news today / oh, I can’t close my eyes and make it go away” (lines 2-3). “Broken bottles under children’s feet / bodies strewn against the dead end street” (lines 9-10) depicts one of the horrors of war. The next lines, “but I won’t heed the battle call / it puts my back up / puts my back up against the wall” (lines 11-13) could describe a solder in the war who’s just seen these horrors. The soldier is scared, or even sad, so he leans on a wall in sadness or fear.
If one digs deeper into the song, one will see it’s not only about war, but also the consequences of “reality” TV. People get brainwashed (propaganda), and people think the shows, etc. they see on TV is true reality, as seen by “and it’s true we are immune / when fact is fiction and TV reality” (lines 43-44). People are totally immune to the horrors of war if they just watch TV and are never actually in it. Propaganda could say that the war is going great and it’s the best, greatest war ever. In reality, war isn’t great at all, or glorious like it’s shown in most movies. War is about death and sadness, but “we eat and drink while tomorrow they die” (line 46). We go about our daily lives, mostly oblivious (unless you know a loved one, friend, etc. in the war) that people are dying in war, just like that.
A literary device the song uses is irony. We are just going about our lives, eating, drinking, and getting brainwashed, while all these soldiers are dying in war. It also uses the metaphor “the trench is dug within our hearts” (line 20). In World War 1, trenches were dreadful places, consisting of floods, rats, drinking water with dead people in it, etc., and it shows how deeply the people’s hatred is for the enemies, and how badly they’re torn apart. Therefore, the song is bitter and sad.
“Sunday Bloody Sunday” is a song about war, but it’s also about what happens when we watch too much television, don’t have loved ones in the war, and don’t pay attention to events in the world. The song states “how long must we sing this song?” (line 5), meaning “why can’t this war end?” Wars tears people apart, even people in the same country. Too much TV brainwashes people. This song makes a statement that war is a horrible thing, yet people are blind to it by the media.
Today's Latin: sola iuvat virtus (virtue alone helps one)
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Date: 2007-10-25 04:00 pm (UTC)That song is one of those songs that will get stuck in my head for the whole day haha.
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Date: 2007-10-25 05:09 pm (UTC)