By personifying the depression allows depression to be a tangible idea for the listener, thus allowing improved understanding of speaker’s agony. Particularly, the line “You pushed one at the end” (“I Can’t Swim”, Elliot Moss) personifies depression because the speaker is referring ‘you’ to their depression. Then earlier within the same verse, the speaker was standing up dominoes, which are his thoughts. Therefore, expressing their depression ruining the thoughts organized by the victim. When the speaker loses control over his thoughts, they are unable to better himself and ultimately loses control of
By personifying the depression allows depression to be a tangible idea for the listener, thus allowing improved understanding of speaker’s agony. Particularly, the line “You pushed one at the end” (“I Can’t Swim”, Elliot Moss) personifies depression because the speaker is referring ‘you’ to their depression. Then earlier within the same verse, the speaker was standing up dominoes, which are his thoughts. Therefore, expressing their depression ruining the thoughts organized by the victim. When the speaker loses control over his thoughts, they are unable to better himself and ultimately loses control of