romantic torment 1
Promise Akubue
English 10 Honors
October 31, 2014 Romantic Sorrow The one-man band Owl City gained fame in 2009 after the release of the album Ocean Eyes. Owl City became popular due to its ecstatic tunes and beats and most of all the individuality and uniqueness of composer Adam Young. Most of the songs in Adam Young's Ocean Eyes have themes that are personal in the like that they explored his fantasies and heart-breaking personal relations. In the song "Vanilla Twilight," he uses paradoxical implications, imagery, and metaphorical language to reveal and truly bring out the meaning and the theme of the song. Owl City uses paradoxical implications in the title of the song: "Vanilla Twilight." The vanilla flower has a white hue that contradicts with the darkness of twilight. In the song, Young seems to reminiscing about lost love. This is clearly shown in the line, “Oh darling, I wish you were here." It seems as if Young uses paradoxical implications to first show the value of his memories, but at the same time portraying the darkness or misery he has fallen into after his loss. Young claims that he is "drenched in vanilla twilight." This literary device gives the song a sense of contradictory convergence. As the song plays on, imagery that usually involves imagination and fantasies are slipped in to portray the frequent escapism of Young's mind. Young tries to escape from his pain by pouring himself a heavy dose of atmosphere and tasting the sky to feel alive. Young's talent to break free of the physical world and to transcend to new heights gives this song a poetic edge that explains the tangible using fantasy and great depths of imagination. His use of imagery allows the audience to escape with him and gives insight to the song's theme. The most evident and easily spotted literary device that Owl City uses is metaphorical language. Almost every other line has a metaphor. The metaphors exaggerate his desires and the level of his grief and
English 10 Honors
October 31, 2014 Romantic Sorrow The one-man band Owl City gained fame in 2009 after the release of the album Ocean Eyes. Owl City became popular due to its ecstatic tunes and beats and most of all the individuality and uniqueness of composer Adam Young. Most of the songs in Adam Young's Ocean Eyes have themes that are personal in the like that they explored his fantasies and heart-breaking personal relations. In the song "Vanilla Twilight," he uses paradoxical implications, imagery, and metaphorical language to reveal and truly bring out the meaning and the theme of the song. Owl City uses paradoxical implications in the title of the song: "Vanilla Twilight." The vanilla flower has a white hue that contradicts with the darkness of twilight. In the song, Young seems to reminiscing about lost love. This is clearly shown in the line, “Oh darling, I wish you were here." It seems as if Young uses paradoxical implications to first show the value of his memories, but at the same time portraying the darkness or misery he has fallen into after his loss. Young claims that he is "drenched in vanilla twilight." This literary device gives the song a sense of contradictory convergence. As the song plays on, imagery that usually involves imagination and fantasies are slipped in to portray the frequent escapism of Young's mind. Young tries to escape from his pain by pouring himself a heavy dose of atmosphere and tasting the sky to feel alive. Young's talent to break free of the physical world and to transcend to new heights gives this song a poetic edge that explains the tangible using fantasy and great depths of imagination. His use of imagery allows the audience to escape with him and gives insight to the song's theme. The most evident and easily spotted literary device that Owl City uses is metaphorical language. Almost every other line has a metaphor. The metaphors exaggerate his desires and the level of his grief and