As part of our inquiry Change Makers learning, we have decided that creating a song could be a great fundraising campaign to generate some money for the SPCA. During reading time we have been analysing song lyrics, deconstructing them and analysing to find deeper meanings. Here is an example of Hattie's analysis she completed this week.
Wake Me Up When September ends
What is it about?
- Coping with loss of a loved one. It is probably from when his father died in September, also for the victims and families from the 9/11 terrorist attacks in September. The title is basically saying about the
What message is the song trying to convey to the listener?
- To say that bad things come to an end, and tell them about losing or parting with a loved one.
What three poetic sound devices, (rhyming, alliteration, accent, onomatopoeia) can you find? Write the lines that you find each devices in and explain.
- Summer has come and passed, The innocent can never last
- Like my father's come to pass, Seven years has gone so fast
- And lots more rhyming
- And no alliteration, accent or onomatopoeia I think.
What two figurative devices (metaphor, simile, personification) can you find in the lyrics? Write the lines and explain each one.
- … Here comes the rain again, Falling from the stars, Drenched in my pain again… (metaphor)
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