I decided to choose a song that Dr. D had suggessted because the song I was going to do was inapropriate. Although the song is short, it contains a lot of techniques. There are 5 stanzas. In the first stanza, the singer makes lines 2 and 4 rhyme. The singer also states that you shouldn't treat her unkind, because shes already been givin the dark turn of mind. So it is irony because it seems like a bad thing to have a dark turn of mind, but then she is ready to give it to someone else. Then in the 2nd stanza, its all about the senses. "Now I SEE the bones in the river and I FEEL the wind through the pine and I HEAR the shadows a-calling." I think that she used this technique to get the reader to really embrace the song, and make it enter into the body through the ears, eyes, and skin.
In the 3rd stanza the singer uses a technique called imagery. In the first 2 lines of the stanza there are 2 words that start with night and then the last line in the stanza states,"When the sun goes down." There is a dark image that is brought up. In the 4th stanza "And leave me if I'm feeling too lonely
Full as the fruit on the vine
You know some girls are bright as the morning
And some have a dark turn of mind
This to me translates into, Make your spirit leave my body, as I am full on your blood. Some girls like the daylight then some girls flock to the night. The 5th stanza is nothing shy of creepy also. "And some girls are blessed with a dark turn of mind." The transition between the 2nd and 3rd stanzas are significant.
I think your paraphrase may be a little off, and there are places where you could look a bit closer. For instance, what technique is shown in "full as the fruit not he vine"? Why would she say "blessed with a dark turn of mind" the last time she says it? Good job noticing the emphasis on senses. What do you think a dark turn of mind is?
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