Chamroeun Rong

Ms. Galloway

English

20 March 2014

“LET HER GO”BY PASSENGER

This song is about heartbreak. Because one person sad and he only need his lover when he let her go. The guy left his girlfriend and he sad. He miss her and need her to come

back to stay with him.

SUMMARY

The speaker’s tone is sad or melancholy. The speaker is 2nd person because he is not discussing about himself. The mood of the song is sad. It’s made me sad too because I have the same problem like this song. It’s change from

beginning to end.

SPEAKER

The instrument create a sad mood like acoustic guitar and drums. The song has slow beat and fast beat. The tone is

kind of sad. The musicality are match with the mood because when the speaker sing faster, the beat is going

faster too.

MUSICALITY

The theme of the song is when you left someone, you will recognize that you will need them and miss them. I learn something about this song that I should not left someone behind so I might sad or missed them. The evidence of theme is on line 3 the state is “ only know you love her

when you let her go”. The next evidence of theme is on line 11 the state is “you see her when you close your eyes”

THEME

Personification

Example “But dream comes slow and they go so fast” (10)

Explanation : the dream is like it is alive but it’s not alive and they seem like they can come and go back fast or slow.

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

Hyperbole

Example “Everything you touch is surely die” (13)

Explanation : when he touch things it’s not going to die because he is not a killing things that he touched.

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

Imagery

Example “well you see her when you fall asleep” (23)

Because when he sleep he saw her. Otherwise he always thinks about her so when he sleep he always sees her.

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

Rhyme

Example “ well you need the light when it’s burning slow” (1). “only need the sun when it’s start to snow” (2).

SOUND DEVICE

Repetition

Example “and you let her go” (33). “and you let her go” (34)

SOUND DEVICE

I choose this song because in the song, he left his lover and now he sad and he need her to come back. I like this song because the sound of the song is slow beat and fast beat

and use only acoustic guitar and drums. The song is connect to my problem that I left my friends and now I

missed them and I want to see them.

PERSONAL CONNECTIO

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Passenger. “Let Her Go”. All the Little Lights. 2012.

WORK CITED