Song 911 By Wyclef John

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Song 911 by Wycliffe John

It confuses everyone and sacrifices have been the modest way to show its existence. Love as illustrated in the Song 911, entices and engulfs the heart and therefore, it is one of the greatest things to have. The Song 911 is a love song sung by Wycliffe John. The song illustrates the perfect love which can worth sacrifices and can kill. It is a way the author shows how he feels about a woman. Therefore, because of uncontrollable feeling of love, he imagine of being short and therefore, for the help of the police. It shows how deep he loves a woman but in contrary he cannot manage to express how he feels. However, throughout the song, the author used metaphor, idiom and irony to convey the message love to the audience.

The song 911 is composed using idioms to convey a special message to loved ones. From the first stanza, the author elaborates how he respect and cherish the woman using idiom. In the second line of the first stanza, the author states that “I serenade the girls with my accoustic guitar.” It means that entertain the beauty using the guitar. It is because of the love the author feels about the girl he can entertain her using accoustic guitar CITATION Wyc14 \p 5 \l 1033 (John 5). It is an expression of inner feelings and therefore, using serenade and acoustic guitar the author could afford to convey a message.

In the song, irony is used to convey a message to specific audience. There is show of frustration and pain from the author. It is noted in the song that if this love have been always warmed then let it be. The author feel that he always been warmed while it is a beautiful thing to be loved. In this case, it is believed that those who always warmed him about love cherish love and therefore, it could be away to deny him something beautiful CITATION Sou15 \p 21 \l 1033 (Sourav, Murugan and Ramasamy 21). In the second stanza, it is pointed out that “If this is the kind of love that the old folks used to warn me about, Man, I'm in trouble” it is a clear evident of irony. It is because, it has been pointed earlier that love is the beautiful things to have.

Metaphor is also applied in various stanzas through the song to ensure that the message is understood. The author used words such as “And she shot me through my soul (and he shot me through my heart)” to express how deep he feels for the girl. It is an expression of inner feelings and connections which many people feel when are in love. It means that his heart and soul feel completed with the girl’s love. Metaphor is also used when the author asked for some to call 911 “Someone please call 911, yeah (pick up the phone yo).” It shows how deep he feels being affected and the calling the police to rescue him. Though he ought to have called for the ambulance for medication instead of the police, the call of 911 shows that he is not unwell be feeling engulf with the love and called for police interventions.

In conclusion, the Song 911 by Wycliffe John is a love song and therefore, several special words including metaphor, idiom and irony are used to convey a message to the audience. They are used to make it easier to understand the author’s feelings and to make the meaning of the song clearer. The song therefore, illustrates the theme love and how the love is essential for the well being. The author therefore, uses different special words to ensure that the message us understood the all the audience.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY John, Wyclife. "Song 911." Mary J. Blige in duet with Wyclef Jean Lyrics (2014): 2-9.

Sourav, Swagat, et al. "Acoustic Guitar Tuner and Identification of Chords using LabVIEW." Global Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics. (2015): 2-15.