Today we analyzed the lyrics from U2's "Sunday Bloody Sunday" rhetorically looking for the rhetorical devices such as ethos, pathos, and logos. I LOVED this assignment because it's something that definitely relates to me. I love music and therefore, when putting lyrics and music to things I should be learning, I will pick up the meaning more clearly and faster. When Deanna pulled out the lyrics for us to analyze my mind went racing back to my 10th grade english class when we used to analyze music, poems, and all sorts of things rhetorically. The main thing that i loved about that class though was one week deemed "Coffee Shop" where each student had to bring in a different song each day, and then describe how they had analyzed it. This way of teaching - using these types of exercises - definitely helps to keep things in my mind.
(lyrics from Sunday Bloody Sunday) -->
Yes
I can't believe the news today
Oh, I can't close my eyes and make it go away
How long, how long must we sing this song?
How long? How long?
'Cause tonight we can be as one, tonight
Broken bottles under children's feet
Bodies strewn across the dead end streets
But I won't heed the battle call
It puts my back up, puts my back up against the wall
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
And the battle's just begun
There's many lost but tell me who has won
The trench is dug within our hearts
And mothers, children, brothers, sisters torn apart
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
How long, how long must we sing this song?
How long? How long?
'Cause tonight we can be as one
Tonight, tonight
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Wipe the tears from your eyes
Wipe your tears away
Oh, wipe your tears away
Oh, wipe your tears away
Oh, wipe your blood shot eyes
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
And it's true we are immune when fact is fiction and TV reality
And today the millions cry
We eat and drink while tomorrow they die
The real battle just begun to claim the victory Jesus won on
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Sunday Bloody Sunday
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