I chose the song "Give Me Love" by Ed Sheeran to analyze. It is not a very popular song, however I really like his music. Here is a link with the song and the lyrics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF2AlO8cKbE. While listening, poetic devices stuck out to me automatically. In the first line, it says "Give me love like her." This is a smilie, so he started his song with a poetic device. I am not sure what or who this song is about, however I think he might have been talking about a girl that he really likes. He started out with this line because he sees her as "love." He wants somebody to give him "her", which to him means love. In the third line, it says "Paint splattered teardrops on my shirt." I would describe this as imagery because while hearing this line you automatically see this picture of colorful spots of paint on his shirt. In lines 6 and 8, the end of the sentence ends with "ya." This would be a sign of repetition. In line 11, it says "All I want is the taste that your lips allow." This is personification because lips cannot allow anything. They cannot physically do that themselves, the person with the lips would do that. Also, in line 5 he mentions "And that i'll fight my corner." This is also personification because you cannot fight a corner in a room.
There were three main devices that were used through out this song. Similies, and signs of imagery and repetition were all used quite often in the song. The end of the song actually ends with him singing "Give me love" ten times. That is a major sign of repetition. Imagery was used to portray a picture of him crying, crying what seems like tears of joy because they are colorful. Personification is used to add depth and meaning to something that means something to him personally. I think that this song uses many poetic devices, and I did not think about this song in that way before studying poetry.
Anna, I like the way you organize this, and you are looking closely at individual lines. I'm not sure that "give me love like her" is a simile, though. The "like" seems to be used more for making the sentence more specify, rather than to compare two things. Also, "I'll fight in my corner" is not personification, because personification requires human qualities to be given to a non-human object. I think "corner" here may not be a room - what about "corner" as the corner of a boxing ring? I would call this a metaphor - considering the kind of fighting that happens in a relationship to the kind that happens in a boxing ring.
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