Gnash's Poem

The tone throughout the poem and song are very similar in the sense of sombre, heartbreak, rejection and depression. Lines that support this include; ‘But mostly I hate the way I don’t hate you, not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all’ from Kat’s poem. In this line Kat is explaining her emotions towards Patrick, and how she can’t help that she is in love with him after all that he has done. In Gnash’s song, “I hate you, I love you” it is the artist’s way of explaining that one is still stuck in neutral feelings about the relationship.

The theme within both pieces are once again very similar as they both connected with significant ideas. A key theme is love, heartbreak and relationships. Throughout the poem written by Kat, she deeply touches her heartbreak emotions through writing the poem, evident through key lines such as “I hate it when you lie, I hate it when you make laugh, even worse when you make me cry”. This line links with line in Gnash’s song “do you miss me like I miss you? Messed around and got attached to you”.
With society’s need for affection from Mr or Mrs right, heartbreak is prone to occur now and then.

The poetic techniques used within Kat’s poem is rhyming. This is also shown through Gnash’s song, along with repetition. Rhyming is used within lines “I hate you so much that it makes me sick, it even makes me rhyme”. Repetition is so strong within Gnash’s song; the title is even an example of this, making the hook of the song so memorizing.

The language choices throughout both are extremely similar. All language in both texts are very aggressive tones, depressing and emotional, especially with the use of the word hate, this is used a tremendous