Niykee Heaton Analysis

In Niykee Heaton’s song, “I’m Ready,” she explains her past life within the lyrics. Literary elements within the song emphasize her past and how it has impacted her. Her hardships gave her an incentive to prevail a consuming past. The theme of this song is about overcoming the shadows of her past.
Heaton’s diction in her first verse explains key shadows of her past. The feathers she mentions symbolize how lightly she took herself. She becomes influenced by the negative ambience of the environment around her like feathers. Feathers, if let go, meander aimlessly, susceptible to movement of their environment because they’re light. This corresponds with the word “sparrows” as they are fragile. Heaton’s past made her fragile because it slowly broke …show more content…
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines “phantom” as something that is hard to see or achieve. Heaton’s confusing past made her forgot her objective to prevail. “Over trembling floors, I’m steady” refers to the phantoms of her past haunting her but simultaneously being able to stay well-balanced, keeping herself “steady.” Floors resemble a stable foundation. Heaton’s foundation was her past; her first album, which is a strong foundation, she can grow and build on. “Love” is a feeling of passion but too much can be a sign of weakness. It becomes a weakness when a person is too passionate, and it blinds them. Heaton’s weakness was her inability to elude her past through an increasing passion to succeed. She was devoted to her music so much that she was blinded by everything other than music; music became her weakness. Another weakness she faced were the phantoms of her past, but she won’t let it ruin her like cancer kills people. Foundations are strong; Heaton needed to overcome her weaknesses to make herself strong like the foundations she’s built. She need “to find peace between”, her “trembling floors” and weaknesses to overcome