Week 1, Friday

Song choice: Ed Sheeran - The A Team

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0dnp5E8FMo

 The song "The A Team", written by Ed Sheeran, has many forms of poetic language including figurative language. One example from the song where figurative language is used is when Sheeran says "Slowly sinking, wasting, Crumbling like pastries", in which Sheeran is comparing the woman's face in the song to a pastry because of the way they crumble using a simile and visual imagery. Obviously the woman's face is not crumbling but it is in fact slowly wasting away due to the life she has and what she puts herself through. The simile helps the listener visualize the woman's face wasting away. Another form of poetic language used in the song is metaphor. For example, when Sheeran says "and sells love to another man." In reality the emotion of love of is not something you can just "sell", it is something within us, but the way Sheeran uses it in this song is to show to listener that the woman in the song is a prostitute who in fact sells her body for money and not actually her love. 

The song is written with 5 stanza's and is un-rhyming. There is no periods throughout the song until the end. Sheeran does this to intertwine the form with the context of the song because over the course of the song he uses the phrase 'angels fly' quite a few times but then the song ends with 'angels to die'. This symbolizes the death of the unfortunate woman as well as the end of the song.