Song Analysis

 There are many songs on the radio that if you really listen use poetry devices we have learned in class. Even very popular songs like "Firework" by Katy Perry uses different poetry devices to make the song flow. If you listen to the first line of the song " Do you ever feel like a plastic bag drifting throughout he wind wanting to start again" Katy Perry is using a smilie by comparing yourself to a plastic bag drifting in the wind. Which she suss again in her next line saying " Do you ever feel feel so paper thin like a house of cards one blow from caving in." She again, uses a smilie by comparing a human emotion to a house of cards in the way that it can collapse anytime.
   Another poetic devices Katy Perry uses is imagery. Imagery is something that appeals to your senses, or something that gives you a picture in your mind. " you just got to ignite the light and let it shine, just own the night like the fourth of July." In this section of the song she is using imagery I think she wants people to picture something bright and powerful to compare themselves to and naturally when you think of the fourth of July you think of fireworks. She also uses an assonance when she says in the song " boom boom boom, even brighter than the moon moon moon its always been inside you you you." She is repeating the same type of sounding words these three lines to keep the song flowing.

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