Want You Back Poem Analysis

Once you experience something of such great significance, it is hard to let that go and move on. This universal theme can be seen in both the song “Want You Back” by 5 Seconds of Summer, and the short story, “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury. In “Want You Back” the band sings about a girl whom they have left and will always want back. In “All Summer in a Day” the author tells about about students on Venus, who are in the absence of the sun and are grieving the loss of it too. In both of these selections, the band and the author use imagery and repetition to convey the theme. In “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury, imagery is used to convey the theme. The author writes, “...she knew they were dreaming and remembering gold or a yellow …show more content…
Ray Bradbury writes, “They glanced out at the world that was raining now and raining and raining steadily”(4). Although the that the children are missing is the sun, the rain is something repeat multiple times, especially in this sentence, to help to convey the author’s message. In life, we know that the sun stands for happiness, while the rain stands for sadness. When the author is constantly repeating rain, we can see it adds effect on the readers and it adds emphasis on this point. With the children glancing outside at the world, we can infer that they were looking out in hopes of the sun still being there. However, the sun was gone, and the only thing left outside was rain and rain and rain. The author’s use of repetition emphasizes the fact that these children’s dreams are taken away by the rain. The rain has mesmerized the children, and the sun is all that the children want back in their …show more content…
While listening to the song, the one statement played constantly is, “I’m always gonna want you back”. This line really helps to add emphasis for it is in the chorus of the song. It appears often when sung, “No matter where I go, I'm always gonna want you back, No matter how long you're gone, I'm always gonna want you back, I know you know I will never get over you, No matter where I go, I'm always gonna want you back, Want you back.” Because of this constant repetition of this line, we can understand how much the guy sincerely wants this girl back in his life. This helps to convey the theme that once you experience something that has great significance, it is hard to let that go and move on. With the artists constantly repeating this, it is able to add emphasis on this line, and overall lead to the theme being shown. Emphasizing on this point helps to make it more clear and comprehensible to the readers to know how in need the man is to have this girl back in his