Martha Mcbride Concrete Angel Essay

The song Concrete Angel, was written by Martha McBride. This song portrays the story of a young girl who is being abused at home. The main theme in this song is that the abuse goes unnoticed. I believe the song was written to demonstrate society's apathy in calling attention to the ugly things in life. Throughout the song, people notice but do nothing. Many situations almost identical to the one portrayed in the song happen in real life. In this song several poetic techniques are used. Right away when looking at the lyrics I could see the metaphors and similes that were present throughout the song. There are many sound techniques used in the song Concrete Angel written by Martha McBride. While looking at the lyrics of the song I immediately noticed rhyme and slant rhyme. An example of rhyme in this song is in the first stanza when it states, “She walks to school with the lunch she packed / nobody knows what she's holding back / wearing the same dress she wore yesterday / she hides the bruises with the linen and lace”. In this stanza the last words, packed and back, which are in lines one and two rhyme. Another sound technique found in this song is slant rhyme. This technique can also be found in the first stanza when it says “Wearing the same dress she wore yesterday / she's hides the …show more content…
The main tone of the song is sad, but the song also consists of more specific tones. Some of the specific tones include hopeless, brave, peaceful, sorrow, neglect and many others. An example of this would be in the first stanza of the song, “Bearing the burden of a secret storm / Sometimes she wishes she was never born”. The tone of that specific line is hopeless. Another specific tone can be found in the fourth stanza. “Somebody cries in the middle of the night / The neighbors hear but they turn out the light”. Neglect is the specific tone in that line. Specific tone can be found all through the song and focuses on each individual