I Will Follow You Into The Dark Rhetorical Analysis

With heartfelt lyrics, the musician Death Cab For Cutie portrayed his song “I Will Follow You Into The Dark” through a stop-motion video consisting of a book of drawings. There was symbolism riddle throughout the entire video, including the lyrics, with the drawings of people, animals, and inanimate objects. The video follows the life of two bunnies that are in love and between the shots of the bunnies, there are drawings of people with writing around them, similar to a journal entry. Around the journal/book being used there is a small cup of coins, a picture of a woman and a postcard in a frame, a clock, keys, and a ruler and pencil. These small details and the song paired with the video create an emotional, well thought out piece of art with many different meanings. Whether is be rhetorical devices used or subtle hints towards the meaning of song, Death Cab For Cutie’s “I Will Follow You Into The Dark” forces the watcher/listener to be entranced by the subtle and overall meanings of each part of the song and video. Death Cab For Cutie’s music video and lyrics consist of any different rhetorical devices. In the video, the director makes it very clear that the person flipping the pages of the journal is the owner of the journal. As the artist goes through every page, the video shows drawings that were obviously made over time, telling the story of the artist and his loved one. This is the use …show more content…
This is clearly shown throughout the song, and the title of the song produces an obvious meaning. The video clearly shows two bunnies that are very close to each other, and they cannot live without one another. The song constantly states that although the writer’s love one may die, he will follow them into death because he cannot be apart from her. Both have a consistent theme of two being in love, and the idea of being apart from them is