song analysis and Building an understanding- english10
- In this song he is saying that this girl is pretty much perfect and has no need to change.
- Bruno mars is speaking to this girl saying that shes perfect, doesn’t need to change etc etc
- words use of denotation. Abstract thinking ex. “when you smile the whole world stops and stares for a while” when she smiles he thinks more of it, not just as some girl smiling out of happiness, the smile means something to him.
- I don’t think the tone changes because the whole idea of this song is him saying how perfect this girl is and that doesn’t change throughout the lyrics
- each stanza ranges from 3-8 lines. the song repeats ex “her eyes her eyes make the stars seem like theyre not shining” and this pattern continues with other compliments he gives such as ” her hair her hair falls perfectly without her trying” the first stanza is AABCCB
- the title is good “just the way you are” considering the song is about a girl being perfect just the way she is. I think theres some symbolism in this song, when he describes “when you smile the whole world stops and stares for a while” her smile is a symbol of something that is bright enough or noticeable to turn heads
- the lyrics definitely affect the reader of the poem because this guy is saying all of these nice things about a girl, it just makes you think of how shes feeling by this and how sweet he is to do so
Childrens books pathways to a theme
in english we have been looking ar childrens books to find themes and question
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