"Youth"

"Youth" by Beach Fossils (an American Indie rock band) from their album Beach Fossils illustrates poetry within music. The song shares the experience of the freedom of youth and how it allows you to do what you want of your own free will with no strings attached.  The song itself is itself actually called "Youth", and the song's lyrics refer repeatedly to being able to cut off ties and doing things when you feel like it because you're young. When you hear the lyrics "Do you want to trim anymore off of our only truth" the use of metaphor is a great factor to help set up the idea of living fully and being present within our youth. "Our only truth" I think represents youth, and the idea that we shouldn't lose it while we are young. When the Beach Fossils sing, "It's not so worth getting all bent out of shape about" they make a great use of metaphor and diction by using the antecedent "It" as problems that we face during our youth and then saying it's not worth "getting all bent out of shape about" which tells the audience that these problems are unimportant and trivial because we'er so young. The use of diction also in this phrase signals a simpler approach to problems during our youth. Another great example of poetic language used in this song (in this case metaphor), is when the Beach Fossils sing "But that's because my heart's untied", indicating that in our youth we are not constrained or restrained in our love or lives which allows us to "feel brave" (the line before). Youth is an excellent example of how poetry uses its words to convey experience and the "zeal of life" that ordinary literature cannot.

Unfortunately there is no music video for "Youth" but you should listen to it! It's a great song!