Song analysis 2

Song analysis 2

Carrie Underwood is a country singer and song writer. She is a very talented multi-platinum selling record artist. Carrie became famous after she won the fourth season of American Idol. Carrie Underwood grew up in the small, of Checotah, Oklahoma, where she was raised by her parents. Carrie did not have much as a kid but she worked all day on their farm singing while she was working. Also she sang at many talent shows and churches, and amazed her audiences with her powerful country twang voice. Carrie Underwood’s song Just a Dream, is very emotional and it shows many literary devices throughout the song.

The song is about a young girl on her wedding day when it say that she had “six pence in her shoe, something borrowed, something blue”, This is suppose to mean good luck for a bride on her wedding day. “all dressed in white, going to the church that night, she heard the trumpets from the military band and the flowers fell out of her hands”. This is ironic because the man she wanted to marry and have a family with is now past away and she is left all alone. The man that she wanted to marry was in the military and he apparently passed away during war before their wedding. Alliteration is also seen when Carrie sings about the congregation and the flag. “all stood up and sang the saddest song that she ever heard”. A simile is comparison of two things using the word like or as and it is seen right before the chorus “then guns rang one last shot and it felt like a bullet in her heart”. Carrie Underwood compares the pain she feels inside as a bullet to her heart, because now she is suffering from heartbreak and she does not know where to run too. “Just a Dream”, is ironic because the song is about a young girl getting ready to marry the man she loves and spend the rest of her life with him.

Just a Dream throws off a very emotional mood. Carrie Underwood is a very talented artist and I hope you would agree. Every time you hear her sing you can’t just listen to one of her songs, you have to listen to all of them. The themed-genre of wishes and dreams in country music is seen in this amazing song as she explains a dream that she wishes will happen someday.