Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Listening Journal: September 26, 2011
The subject of the song "Shame" by the Avett Brothers is shame and the tone is guilt. Three words that push the tone are boatloads, blame, and overwhelming. The word boatloads if for how much shame the writer feels, and it also has a bigger, more powerful connotation than the word a lot does. With the word blame the writer is taking responsibility for his actions and knows he did wrong and feels guilt and shame and knows he is at fault. How much guild is being forced upon him because of all his shame is overwhelming, and it is too much for him to deal with and he is consumed in his shame.
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Nice job dissecting the song. Be sure to use a comma with the conjunction when the conjunction is joining two independent clauses.
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