Writer’s Statement for Break Free
Break Free is written from the perspective of someone unhappy with his life and society. He also wishes to be free and fantasise in his head. The poem takes the reader through a journey and emphasises points and ideas throughout with different techniques such as metaphors, similes, symbols.
The first verse is all about setting the scene, of a man unhappy with himself and feeling stuck. The first three lines are about him rejecting the world and his life. It conveys how modern life seems to be going to quickly for him and how people are only after money and power. The idiom “rat-race” means to be caught up competing for wealth and power, and the line saying “but I’ll got at my own pace” is saying he doesn’t …show more content…
This gives the verse a depressing feeling to it. I used the metaphor “weight of reality” to emphasis the burden and pressure of reality on him. I repeated some keywords and themes of “jumping through hoops”, “not being free” and not being able to be himself, to make the audience have sympathy for him. The repetition also reinforces how depressed he actually is in the real world, compared to him in his head. I used end rhyme in the third verse unlike internal rhyme in the previous verses because it makes the verse feel slower and more …show more content…
The first two lines follows the ideas of the previous verse. I used the simile of “Like a bird without flight, it doesn’t feel right” to say he prefers being in his head more than reality and that when he is in his head, he is free like a bird is free to fly. The simile also is a reference to the line “Soaring high and free” both are touching on an underlying metaphor that when he is in his head, he is like a bird free to fly and when out it’s like his wings are clipped. The poem then takes a sharp turn in direction, with the last three lines being strong empowering sentences and more optimistic. I used powerful language such as “master” and “I am” to show the theme of empowerment. There is also a touch of irony and 4th wall breaking in the line “I wish this was a story so I could do a
Break Free is written from the perspective of someone unhappy with his life and society. He also wishes to be free and fantasise in his head. The poem takes the reader through a journey and emphasises points and ideas throughout with different techniques such as metaphors, similes, symbols.
The first verse is all about setting the scene, of a man unhappy with himself and feeling stuck. The first three lines are about him rejecting the world and his life. It conveys how modern life seems to be going to quickly for him and how people are only after money and power. The idiom “rat-race” means to be caught up competing for wealth and power, and the line saying “but I’ll got at my own pace” is saying he doesn’t …show more content…
This gives the verse a depressing feeling to it. I used the metaphor “weight of reality” to emphasis the burden and pressure of reality on him. I repeated some keywords and themes of “jumping through hoops”, “not being free” and not being able to be himself, to make the audience have sympathy for him. The repetition also reinforces how depressed he actually is in the real world, compared to him in his head. I used end rhyme in the third verse unlike internal rhyme in the previous verses because it makes the verse feel slower and more …show more content…
The first two lines follows the ideas of the previous verse. I used the simile of “Like a bird without flight, it doesn’t feel right” to say he prefers being in his head more than reality and that when he is in his head, he is free like a bird is free to fly. The simile also is a reference to the line “Soaring high and free” both are touching on an underlying metaphor that when he is in his head, he is like a bird free to fly and when out it’s like his wings are clipped. The poem then takes a sharp turn in direction, with the last three lines being strong empowering sentences and more optimistic. I used powerful language such as “master” and “I am” to show the theme of empowerment. There is also a touch of irony and 4th wall breaking in the line “I wish this was a story so I could do a