Wednesday, December 14, 2016

A Little Bit Of Everything Because Those Things Matter

For my poetry analysis I chose "A Little Bit Of Everything" by Dawes from the album, Nothing Is Wrong. This song perfectly encapsulate how life is made up people with different stories and each individual deals with struggles of their own. The purpose of this song-poem is to deepen the meaning of little things in life that make it whole or miserable. I think the song is about hope and the different ways we process it. In the first verse, sadly, the guy jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge has lost all hope. In the second verse, the old man in the buffet line struggles to keep hope alive while wrestling with his past. In the third verse, the bride-to-be sees hope in a future married life in the face of a mundane present. 
The real beauty of the song is in how it paints three very different scenarios without judgement. It lets you, the listener, draw the conclusions.Through this song, the listener reflects on their own life and empathizes with the experiences of the people described in the song. This song uses, "A little bit of everything," to emphasize how each individual in the song is feeling. For example, the poem starts off with a man attempting to commit suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge. In this case, "A little bit of everything," is represented all the little things that are causing him to feel the need to end his life. Although in that scenario those lyrics are alluding to his depression, "A little bit of everything," also represents hope for individuals. For the next individual described in the poem, he is a homeless man waiting in line to get dinner. For this individual, "A little bit of everything," represents hope because he wants to move forward with his life and forget about the past that brought him here today. This song also uses metaphors to describe the ups and downs of life
Oh, it's a little bit of everything
It's the matador and the bull
It's the suggested daily dosage 
 It is the red moon when it's full
This stanza describes how life can be filled with strife and struggle, by comparing two opposites of a matador and a bull and emphasizing anxiety and pain with the line, "Suggested daily dosage". Although this stanza can describe the downfalls of life, the stanza ends with describing life as, "The red moon when it's full." The red moon is alluding to the "Blood Moon" which is a lunar eclipse and something that doesn't happen everyday and is unique, showing that life can have a spectacular moment; you just might have to wait for it. When that moment does come, though, it will be amazing.
Finally, the song ends with how life can be confusing, but there isn't a secret meaning to life. It is through everyday, mundane things that you can find meaning in your life.

4 comments:

  1. I've always liked this song. I'm really glad that you chose to explore it as poetry. We are all made up of the sum of our parts, and I think this song does a wonderful job of highlighting that. I especially liked how you pointed out the nonjudgemental tone, because I think we're constantly caught up in our opinions of others, and this song is a refreshing break from that.

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  2. I've always liked this song. I'm really glad that you chose to explore it as poetry. We are all made up of the sum of our parts, and I think this song does a wonderful job of highlighting that. I especially liked how you pointed out the nonjudgemental tone, because I think we're constantly caught up in our opinions of others, and this song is a refreshing break from that.

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  3. I love the way Dawes can spin a pithy line and take you to a very simple place of living. This song in particular touches on the many plights we are all encounter as well as the genuine interactions that make the world go around. He calls us to find the beauty in the little things, which you articulated perfectly.

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  4. I love the way Dawes can spin a pithy line and take you to a very simple place of living. This song in particular touches on the many plights we are all encounter as well as the genuine interactions that make the world go around. He calls us to find the beauty in the little things, which you articulated perfectly.

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