How Does Nirvana Use Metaphors In Rape Me

Each Band or Artist has a way of getting there message across to their intended audience. The band Nirvana used metaphors in their song “Rape Me” to show how the media and friends use and abuse their fame. While the song “The Way I am” by Eminem, can be heard as a diary entry into the life of a celebrity trying to live and be a normal person with the media. The song “The Way I am” is very clear with its use of imagism contrary to “Rape Me”, which could keep listeners guessing on who the aslant is. Eminem song did use the elements of non-traditional structure. The song “Rape Me” used ambiguous language to portray what they wanted to say. Contrary to poetry, songs have so many more elements added that can make the music tell a different story …show more content…
There are key words that catch people’s attention and “Rape Me”, is one of them because the two words don’t go together. By definition “Rape” is to take something in a sexually nature without permission. So by the two words “Rape Me” being together adds this experimentation of language. The song is not very clear of its use of imagism. In class students raised their hands comparing the song to how the media uses celebrities acting as their friend, but stabbing them in the back at the same moment. Another suggestion was that it was the leader singers’ girlfriend who used him. Thought it is a greater chance that the song is speaking of the press, nobody can really disclose the exact meaning. When considering if the song has a problematic narrator, I was crossed about this subject due to the imagism of the song. Since the singer can be considered the narrator, him singing about his own relationship with his girlfriend could have made the song what it is. Then when considering the overall message of the song, I think a problematic narrator is minor even with the lead singer drama. The words within the song were so vague that it leaves listeners puzzling for who is the aslant. In the chorus it says, “I’m not the only one” four times, hammering it into your head that there is more than one aslant. In the third stanza the lines “Appreciate your concern/ you’ll always stink and burn”, referring …show more content…
Eminem becomes an artist with his words as he says, “In the streets when I’m eating or feeding my daughter”. That line alone is something that listeners can picture physically and mentally. He goes on to contrast himself with N’Sync saying that he’s nothing like them, but what he did was give listeners a physical picture. Eminem has been called on many occasions a poser for his bad boy rhythm, but in his song he approaches so angry that our class had to question if it was real anger or an act. The song “The Way I Am” is structured very oddly, because the words don’t rhyme and they don’t all have the same syllable count. It’s almost as if Eminem approached the song writing process as a spoken word, where the structure doesn’t exist. Eminem’s language and meaning was very straight forward, in one line he says “Or the ring or the thumb, it’s the one you put up/ When you don’t give a ****”. Though he could have left the subject alone of which finger he was referring to he still talked about it for three lines to be absolutely clear. In the chorus he repeats the line “Cause I am, Whatever you say I am/ If I wasn’t, then why would I say I am?/ In the paper, the news everyday I am”. Eminem calls out the media clearly telling them that he is what he is because that what the media says he