Comparing Fiix You By Coldplay And Fix You

Emotion is one of the most powerful things that humans can utilize and capture to convey a message. This could be the most prominent things that define a creature as a human from an animal. These two forms of art and poetry are excellent examples of poetic authors’ ability to capture the essence of human sadness and produce a piece that can transfer these feeling. The words of the pieces use multiple different poetic devices to create a mood in the audience and allow the reader to embody the emotions being conveyed through the lyrics. Each example uses similar and different poetic devices to effectively accomplish this goal. The most easily noticeable to most would be rhyme, this is to add emphasis on the words primarily place at the end of the lines and …show more content…
Next would be metaphors, metaphors are to epitomize the ideas in the passage in a way that is more understandable. This better understanding assists the effectiveness of the words so they can be better received. Another is personification which is best used as an instrument to connect like ideas and make the events around the objects more understandable, creating a connection to the objects for the audience. The devices used within these writings are used with a purpose to better convey and connect ideas the the persons reading or listening.

The first of the two pieces is Fix You by Coldplay (Martin, Chris. “Fix You”. Coldplay. Ken Nelson, 2005. Electronic.), this is considered one of the greatest sad songs of the modern day. This was written by Chris Martin for his wife during the tough period in her life in which she lost her father. Martin uses rhythm, rhyme, repetition, personification, and metaphor lyrics in this ballad to convey the message of love and support to his mourning wife. In “Fix You”,