Fade to Black Analysis

Life it seems to fade away
Drifting further everyday
Getting lost within myself
Nothing matters no one else
I have lost the will to live
Simply nothing more to give
There is nothing more for me
Need the end to set me free

Things not what they used to be
Missing one inside of me
Deathly loss this can’t be real
Cannot stand this hell I feel
Emptiness is filling me
To the point of agony
Growing darkness taking dawn
I was me but now, he’s gone

No one but me can save myself, but its too late
Now I can’t think, think why I should even try

Yesterday seems as though it never existed
Death greets me warm, now I will just say goodbye
Goodbye

 

  • The poem is about a guy who is tired of the world, how the things are going, and the pain, so he wants to kill himself and “set himself free”. / social and psychological
  • The person who wants to kill himself/ to the audience/ depressed and sad
  • No unfamiliar word/ The words are mostly abstract (Agony, free, death, existed…) /The poem has clichés in it (no one but me can’t save myself) / The diction sets the tone and atmosphere very well
  • The poem is serious/ Agony, darkness, hell/ the tone doesn’t change throughout the song remains depressing
  • 3-7 words / 21 lines/ aa bb cc, ab cb/ closed
  • No allusions/ no sound devices/ it uses simile, metaphor, symbol (can’t s), hyperbole/ no synecdoche or metonymy/ uses punctuation/ it is THE BEST TITLE he could chose because it shows the sadness of the song
  • Yes by the rhythm and the diction/yes/ yes