Double entendre

Every song has its unique theme which expresses critical messages and reflects the life at a particular time. One of the most influential R&B (rhythm and blues) song is the anti-war song "what's going on" by Marvin Gaye on 21 may 1971. It is one of the top twenty political songs as mentioned in New-statesman by Jennifer Thompson. The "what's going on" song and its album have the same name. The album comprises nine songs which related to each other so it has been categorized as a song cycle. The…

the top of a staircase looking at her child 's grave through the window... The poem explains two tragedies first, the death of a young child, and second, the death of a marriage. As such, the title “Home Burial,” can be read as a heart-rending double entendre. Though the death of the child is the catalyst of the couple’s problems, the greater conflict that destroys the marriage is the couple’s inability to communicate with each other. Communication in marriage is like a river. When opinions and…

Billy Wilder’s “Sunset Boulevard” and Judy Grahn’s “I Have Come to Claim Marilyn Monroe’s Body” both detail how the intense Hollywood cult of celebrity can lead to dizzying heights of fame, transforming ordinary people into worldwide stars with legions of adoring fans and admirers. Such fame and notoriety, however, does not come without a cost. Both Norma and Marilyn, Hollywood stars of these respective narratives, came to see the fame that once dominated their lives devolve into a destructive…

was the murderer he was able to deceive the reader in a way that bent the truth, but never was a complete lie. This effect is heightened by other methods that are essentially used to facilitate the production of illusion. One method being the double entendre discourse or statements that have two completely different interpretations. Think of the truth as a Two Level Theory, there is the surface level and the hidden, deeper level. The surface level is what things appear to be as such as words or…

vice versa, by demonstrating the implicit meaning of Farewell rather than the explicit definition. “Yours is a face of which I can forget The colour and the features” (Millay, line 10-11) with her word choice these line could also be seen as a double entendre, as she could be referring to her lost love or to her cigarette. If one smokes a cigarette, it's very hard to forget what it looks like, just like it's hard to forget an Ex looks Like. Its safe to say the author could have been trying to…

Reality Television (TV) is a genre of TV programming in which ordinary people are continuously filmed, designed for entertainment rather than for information. Though eventually, a change in attitude and behavior is usually noticed in these people because they go from ordinary to reality stars within a matter of no time. This genre of TV may present itself in two ways: one as harmless and humorous entertainment which people can choose whether or not to watch; or two, as a negative effect on…

The Accidental Prime Minister is a memoir by Indian policy analyst Sanjaya Baru, who was Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s media advisor from May 2004 till August 2008. The author describes how he was given this important position in the very first chapter, in which he says - ‘Working in a PMO headed by Manmohan Singh, whom I had come to respect as a professional and a human being, was an opportunity not to be missed’. The book offers valuable insights into the Prime Minister’s mind, his…

Madness can either be the result of a stroke of genius or a series of unfortunate events. In the play The Tragedy of Hamlet by William Shakespeare, the prince, Hamlet, is portrayed as insane. Although his nature may seem abnormal at times, it is simply a harmless symptom of his life being transformed into a whirlwind of wrongs and rights. He uses it to his advantage, playing on these behaviors in order to manipulate Claudius, his evil stepfather. His paradoxical behavior flips between sane and…

Anthropologists, are, as their name suggests, people who study the history of mankind. The field of anthropology is broken up into four main fields. First, there is biological anthropology, examines the evolution of humans, health and diseases, and what makes us distinctly humans (such as our DNA). Next, there is archaeology, which seeks to understand how early humans, such as hunter-gatherers, lived before us. Archaeology studies trade routes, war zones, and ancient remains of city states. Then…

The Life of Pablo, which was originally supposed to be called So Help Me God and Swish and many other trial and errors that did not make the cut. The Life of Pablo is Kanye West’s 7th studio album, which was first released only through streaming. Although the album is Kanye Wests’, he had plenty of help with engineering and creating lyrics for the album with others and even Grammy nominee musicians. Some of the musicians who were featured on the gospel-rap album were Kid Cudi; Chance the Rapper,…