Left And Leaving Poem

Left and Leaving By The Weakerthans
In the acoustic song “left and leaving” by the Weakerthans the singer sings about him living in a small, poor failing city all his life being sheltered from the outside attempting to leave . Later in the songs he ventures to a bigger city that he hopes to find a better life in and soon realizes that that life wasn't the right option for him. This song talks in a depressing matter since the singer claims that he's lost everything from this and that he's failed himself and the people supporting him. This story uses a numerous amount of literary terms. One of the terms Apostrophe is used when the singer says “I'm trying not to wonder where you are” talking to someone who isn't actually there. The singer uses this when coming back home to his home to his hometown again and seeing if his family and friends are still there for him
A personification is a figure of speech in which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes. This is used to give the listener a good image of how his city failing and in desperate need. Flashbacks are used mainly in stories when recalling a significant event that occurred in the past. This whole song is one big flashback of the singers’s dreadful and depressing journey to a bigger city. This flashback ends with himself failing to achieve anything in the big city and runs him back to where he started. Many symbolisms are used in this story such as “I'm back with scars to show” . A symbol can represent a larger matter compared to itself. This is used to add significant flavor to writing pieces The tone in this song is mainly depressing and very sad since this song relates to the singer's failure. The singer relates to himself as being lonely a lot “The best parts of lonely”. The song is also a very slow pace, making his lyrics very