Country songs are one of the closest to poems in my opinion, and my personal favourite. Country songs are sterotyped as emotional because they often depict the struggles of day to day life. For example, Stand by Rascal Flatts or Over You by Miranda Lambert. Country songs have a lot of poetic language in them, in the fact, that they are story orienated, have emotion and have their own meaning behind it.
The song Stand by Rascal Flatts, is about not giving up no matter how hard life gets, "keep holding on" and also about determination. When you've been knocked down, you must find the strength to stand back up. The lyric "'Cause when push comes to shove/You taste what your made of/You might bend, till you break/Cause its all your made off", I think this is giving you the whole meaning of the song in just three lines. When you cannot strive to continue anymore something inside you breaks and you push yourself forward to get what you want to accomplish.
This song is a good reflection about life. When you think your doing good, something goes wrong, then you just have to get back up and move on. Everyone at some point in their life experiences this in all different ways. Everyone will be knocked down, not just once, but a dozens time, well I know I have and will be, and it can either have a positive or negative effect on your life.
"You feel like a candle in a hurricane/Just like a picture with a broken frame/Alone and hopeless/Like you've lost your fight/But you'll be alright", meaning they gets to decide their own destiny, or whenever they feel insignificant or unloved they are, and to just let the past go.
Rascal Flatts makes their music by applying poetic and literary devices into their songs. In more songs than just Stand, they use devices like simile, imagery, repetition, metaphor, rhyme and more. This song has more of a free verse form. There is no rules, they put poetic language anywhere and have no set rhyme scheme.
They finish off strong, by saying after you fight back and keep moving forward, all the pieces will go back in place.
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