Concrete Angel
Bilal Kawsara
10/21/2013
ENG3U
Ms. Donaldson
Literary Essay
The song “Concrete Angel” is written by Stephanie Kay Bentley and Rob Crosby. The song was sung by Martina McBride and published in 2002. This song is about a young girl in a world of abuse and handles getting past it every day. The little girl is described as from a place of depression, violence, and loneliness. The lyrics and their positioning, along with the many metaphors, similes and repetitions used, explain the deeper meaning of this song “Concrete angel”.
In the first section of the song’s lyrics the atmosphere of sadness is laid down through the first piece of imagery showing loneliness; “She walks to school with the lunch she packed” and “Wearin’ the same dress she wore yesterday”. This atmosphere, from imagery of loneliness, continues on throughout the second and third section by the teacher seeing bruises and not saying a word about it, or the neighbors hear her cries in the night but don’t do anything as well and go back to sleep. Imagery of abuse is created by the lyrics in the first section from “She hides the bruises with linen and lace”, and the fourth section “Somebody cries in the middle of the night” and “A fragile soul caught in the hands of fate”. For the fourth section where it says “the hands of fate” there is a double figurative display, the first one being that thy personify fate as if to have hands, and the second being the metaphor they use to compare the young girl’s fate and beatings, being derived from the hands.
10/21/2013
ENG3U
Ms. Donaldson
Literary Essay
The song “Concrete Angel” is written by Stephanie Kay Bentley and Rob Crosby. The song was sung by Martina McBride and published in 2002. This song is about a young girl in a world of abuse and handles getting past it every day. The little girl is described as from a place of depression, violence, and loneliness. The lyrics and their positioning, along with the many metaphors, similes and repetitions used, explain the deeper meaning of this song “Concrete angel”.
In the first section of the song’s lyrics the atmosphere of sadness is laid down through the first piece of imagery showing loneliness; “She walks to school with the lunch she packed” and “Wearin’ the same dress she wore yesterday”. This atmosphere, from imagery of loneliness, continues on throughout the second and third section by the teacher seeing bruises and not saying a word about it, or the neighbors hear her cries in the night but don’t do anything as well and go back to sleep. Imagery of abuse is created by the lyrics in the first section from “She hides the bruises with linen and lace”, and the fourth section “Somebody cries in the middle of the night” and “A fragile soul caught in the hands of fate”. For the fourth section where it says “the hands of fate” there is a double figurative display, the first one being that thy personify fate as if to have hands, and the second being the metaphor they use to compare the young girl’s fate and beatings, being derived from the hands.