tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29345538.post6656158317544480676..comments2024-01-14T03:26:30.071-05:00Comments on Ryan's Smashing Life : The Invisible Children BenefitRyan Spauldinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18401858408851940636noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29345538.post-27094653056180472322010-10-20T10:23:19.337-04:002010-10-20T10:23:19.337-04:00In the song “this is your life” by switchfoot it i...In the song “this is your life” by switchfoot it is gets you deep in thought and leaves you wondering what is it that is very wrong in your life. I can see different styles of music in this song, but the one that I see the most is a softer rock that was passed on by the beetles. He is not like the rolling stones and there heavier style of music, but it is softer and easier to listen to. <br /><br /> In the beginning of the song he asks us very hard question to answer. In the line “yesterday is a wrinkle on your forehead/yesterday is a promise that you've broken” he tells us that we shake off the bad things that we have done in the past or even yesterday that we don’t notice, like the promise that you have broken, implying that it was just another thing you’ve done . That shows a form of a metaphor because he does not literally mean that it is “a wrinkle on your forehead” but implies that every day adds something to you as a person. In the line “this is your life are you who you want to be” he speaks in a tone that is regretful for what he has done in the past, and that is a great example of elegiac because of the mournful tone that he speaks with. An example of hortatory could be found in the line “don’t close your eyes” saying that even though we have done bad things in your life you do to want to just give up on life but to look back and fix it so that you don’t regret it all later on in life.<br /><br /> The line “this is your life are you who you want to be?” it makes you think about what you have done in the past to come to this point in your life, and are you happy with the way it came out to be. It makes you look at the little things you did that affected your life in a big way good or bad. That could be an example of a personal or ethical part of the song, but it could also be historical because it talks about looking at the past in your life. In the line “yesterday is a kid in the corner/yesterday is dead and over” it talks about you have to move on from the past, as hard as it may be. This could be an example of personal or ethical because it is something that you have to deal with. In the line”this is your life, is it everything that you dreamed that it your be/when the world was younger and your have everything to lose” talks about saying that did you do everything in your power to make today the best it could be. This is an example of personal or ethical because of it has you examine your own past.<br /><br /> In the song it is mostly modern because of the way that it makes you look bad on truth. In the line “ This is your life are you who you want to be” it shows depth in exploring the underlying truth. This is true because it wants you to look back and show that in all that muck you made your life now a ton of a lot worse than what it should have been. In that same line it also shows purpose and design, this says that life has a purpose and design in all our sweat and tears. It makes us look back at what you did in your past to make who you are today. You can also see logos, which is when you want to see the underlying truth to the word. And it shows that because it wants you to find out what happened to get you this way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com