Parrallel Songs

Jake Hallgren

November 20^th, 2012

Poetry of Song A

Parallel Song

                From Long Beach California, Avenged Sevenfold is known for their creative mixes in tone and their fast paced beats. The Eagles, pioneers of classic southern rock, tend to us much slower beats that create a calm and soothing atmosphere. Avenged Sevenfold is able to expand and use influences of other genres whereas the Eagles tend to stick with their blend of country and rock. While using 3rd person and 2^nd person point of view, Avenged Sevenfold and The Eagles are very much a like in their songs utilizing 3rd person point of view, alliteration, and end rhymes.

In their song, “Welcome to the Family”, Avenged Sevenfold uses a frustrated tone while The Eagles use a more confused tone in “Hotel California”. The tones help add to the songs effects and shows how the bands normally are. An example of the frustrated tone in “Welcome to the Family” is “Why won’t you listen?/Can’t help the people you’re missin’” shows that Avenged Sevenfold is frustrated because they can’t help someone if they don’t listen to him. The Eagles show a confused tone when his “head grew heavy and my sight grew dim/I had to stop for the night” could be explained by saying he got so confused that he wasn’t able to do anything and had to go to bed to be able to continue to do anything.

     Avenged Sevenfold in “Welcome to the Family” uses the 2^nd person narrative to show that they are talking to and about different people. The Eagles utilize an extended metaphor throughout their entire song. Avenged Sevenfold uses questions in their for example they ask, “What’s with the violent aggressions?” and “Why won’t you listen?” to not only display their tone but also gets the main point of their song to the listener. Avenged Sevenfold utilizes a lot of personification to add to the effect of how crazy the family really is. The Eagles demonstrate wordplay and oxymoron when they creatively tell you that “she got the Mercedes bends” which sounds like she has the car but really they are talking about the curves on her body, which adds a silly effect but at the same time makes you know that you do not want to stay at that hotel. Before the end of both songs the bands slowly funnel to a realization that they are stuck. Also, for fun and to make the songs more interesting both bands use end rhyme to entertain the listener.

     In  “Welcome to the Family” and “Hotel California”, Avenged Sevenfold and The Eagles utilize 3^rd person point of view, alliteration, and end rhyme to show the listener that everyone is stuck inside something and just wants to get out of it in the end. Avenged Sevenfold uses a more indirect way of saying they want to get out while The Eagles directly say “Last thing I remember, I was running for the door” which directly proves that they wanted to leave that hotel as soon as they could.