Analysis Song Lyrics_Haya Aqila Putri

 Name: Haya Aqila Putri

SID: 205110500111033

Class: English Literature A

 

RED

Taylor Swift

 

Loving him is like driving a new Maserati down a dead-end street  (Simile)(Assonance)               
This lyric implies the feeling of loving someone who feels like driving Maresti, which gives her a big pleasure and satisfaction. Dead and street refer to a situation that even the songwriter loves the man so much and gives her so much pleasure. It will end soon as there is nothing she can do more than race a dead-end street.

Faster than the wind Passionate as sin, ended so suddenly (Simile) (Assonance)               

The songwriter compares how she loves the man that is passionate to a sin. As shown in the complete lyrics, it explains her feeling of loving the man in the song which ends so suddenly as if it is faster than the wind as passionate as doing a sin.

Loving him is like trying to change your mind (Hyperbola) (Assonance)               

Once you're already flying through the free fall  (Hyperbole) (Alliteration)

In "trying to change your mind" it means changing the condition, but "once you've flown through free fall " is considered a condition that has happened. Basically, humans cannot change something that has happened in the past. In the lyrics, changing her mind in this condition will not change anything because even if the person who plunged changed her mind not to jump, she would not be able to return to where she was.

 

Like the colors in autumn (Simile)

So bright just before they lose it all

She said their relationship was full of beautiful colors like in autumn and so bright. But just as autumn will end and change to another season, their relationship ends.

 

Losing him was blue like I'd never known

The loss of this man is symbolized by the songwriter in blue. The blue color itself is interpreted as a symbol and cold nature. The thing called losing the things we love must make us sad. Likewise, the songwriter, who broke up with her partner, felt sad and cold. Even songwriter this meaning with phrases that have ever existed I do not know. Which meant he never seemed to feel this deep before.

Missing him was dark grey all alone (Metaphor)

This time the color used is dark gray which is used to symbolize her feelings of longing. Gray is considered a color that symbolizes depression, lack of energy, and feelings of loneliness. This means that she feels deep sadness.

 

Forgetting him was like trying to know somebody you've never met (Hyperbola)

 (Assonance)               

"Forgetting him" with "like trying to know someone you’ve never met." In this utterance, the songwriter described that forgetting the man she loved was like knowing someone she never met. This is impossible and that is too much. The songwriter uses these words to attract the attention of listeners and wants listeners to understand that forgetting someone who is loved is impossible.

But loving him was red (Metaphor)

"loving him" which is when she loves her male she compares directly using color, which is red. Red has analogies like happiness, glad, delight, joy, and love. Songwriter described that she loved him with feelings of pleasure, gladness, delight, and joy.

 

Loving him was red

Loving literally means feeling love and affection, while red is used to evoke erotic feelings. Red also means happiness and warmth. The songwriter wants to show how it feels when she is loving someone which affection, warmth, and erotic as the color red.

Touching him is like realizing all you ever wanted was right there in front of you (Simile)(Assonance) 

"Touching him" he was the man songwriter loved and compared with the word “realizing all you ever wanted was right there in front of you” songwriter intends to describe what she felt when touching him was like a fun thing what she wants is in front of her eyes. This is because she wants to show that she is very happy to touch the man she loves

Memorizing him was as easy as knowing all the words to your old favorite song (Hyperbola) (Assonance) 

"Memorizing him" to "as easy as knowing all the words for your old favorite song " which she keeps memories of with the man she loves is as easy as remembering every word from an old song.

Fighting with him was like trying to solve a crossword and realizing there's no right answer (Simile)(Alliteration)
"Fighting with him" songwriter wants to describe that she was fighting with a man she loved is like “trying to solve a crossword puzzle and realize there are no right answers” she meant here instead she could not find the right answer to the crossword puzzle but what she meant here was that she was very uncomfortable and frustrated when fighting with the man she liked.

 

Regretting him was like wishing you never found out love could be that strong (Assonance) 

The separation that occurred was very painful for her. It was very difficult for her to even simply regret the situation. She is always carried away by feelings of love that she never thought could be this strong.             

Losing him was blue like I'd never known (Metaphor)

"Losing him is blue like I'd never known" is comparing "losing him" is songwriter’s feeling that losing a loved one with "blue" has an analogy that describes sadness. Two things implied in the lyrics above illustrate that she wants to describe her relationship with a man, namely the relationship when she loses her male she will feel deep sadness by describing it with color, and colors that have a relationship with sadness is blue, so she uses blue as a picture of sadness when she loses the man she loves.

Missing him was dark grey all alone

 

Forgetting him was like trying to know somebody you've never met

 

But loving him was red

 

Oh red burning red

Remembering him comes in flashbacks and echoes (Assonance)

Recalling their relationship is something that can't be separated from her.

Tell myself it's time now, gotta let go

She actually realized that it was time to let go of these feelings, go with their memories first.

When I still see it all in my head (Personification)  

Logically looking at the contents of the head is impossible because we cannot see the contents of the head. Everything is not as easy as we think. it's very difficult to move on from the ex when he is still an imprint and keeps running around in our minds.

 

Burning red!

Symbolizes intense and highly passionate act of loving

Darling, it was red!

Oh, losing him was blue like I'd never known

Missing him was dark grey all alone

Forgetting him was like trying to know somebody you've never met

Cause loving him was red Yeah yeah red

We're burning red

And that's why he's spinning round in my head (hyperbola)

Spinning round in my head it expresses her feeling. It refers to the time when she cannot stop thinking about the man.

Comes back to me burning red

Yeah yeah

Cause love was like driving a new Maserati down a dead-end street

The songwriter shares her love experience with the ex she loves so much. She conveys it to us in a beautiful way, a beautiful song with colorful lyrics in it as if to bring us in to the feelings and situations that he describes. She tries to share her feelings that hope she and her ex can be together again, together ignite the burning fire of love and keep it that way until death does them part.