Eminem Poetic Devices
Alliteration was used in the intro verse of the song (People, proud, citizens, country, stripes, stars) to emphasis the words, creating a rhyme to allow the audience to remember those words and symbolism is used to symbolize American flag. Anapestic pentameter , two unstressed syllables followed up by a stressed syllable. “Stripes and stars” creates an imagery of American flag and patriotism.
Eminem uses sarcasm to describes American should be proud but in the later of the song, it is clearly conveyed that the American shouldn’t be proud to be an American and hence indicating “men have died for to protect” men have sacrificed themselves to protect the freedom of speech in the United States. Moreover, rhetorical questions are often used to …show more content…
Eminem uses “army” to emphasise his perspectives on Iraq war and indicates many people shares the same perspective as him on the George W.Bush and Iraq war.
Racism was raised in most of his songs, implying the major on going problem in the United States is racism. Eminem, as a white rapper does not only breaks the frontier line of our skin color defines our cultural identity. From this line, Eminem is pointing out American is racist, as Dr.Dre was mentioned as the only record company that look past his skin color and accepts his dope rhyme. He also suggests that if he was black, he would not have many white fans, the number of sales of his record would also be half of his original sales.
Therefore, this demonstrates why Eminem was an inspirational and influential rapper among the white community in the 90s, causing the government censor Eminem’s song lyrics rigorously. The uprising of Eminem also immersed into the American young generations, since they shares the same cultural background and skin color as Eminem. Hence Eminem suggesting that if he was black , he would not be as successful as now, as his music would get grouped in the rest of the hip-hop
Eminem uses sarcasm to describes American should be proud but in the later of the song, it is clearly conveyed that the American shouldn’t be proud to be an American and hence indicating “men have died for to protect” men have sacrificed themselves to protect the freedom of speech in the United States. Moreover, rhetorical questions are often used to …show more content…
Eminem uses “army” to emphasise his perspectives on Iraq war and indicates many people shares the same perspective as him on the George W.Bush and Iraq war.
Racism was raised in most of his songs, implying the major on going problem in the United States is racism. Eminem, as a white rapper does not only breaks the frontier line of our skin color defines our cultural identity. From this line, Eminem is pointing out American is racist, as Dr.Dre was mentioned as the only record company that look past his skin color and accepts his dope rhyme. He also suggests that if he was black, he would not have many white fans, the number of sales of his record would also be half of his original sales.
Therefore, this demonstrates why Eminem was an inspirational and influential rapper among the white community in the 90s, causing the government censor Eminem’s song lyrics rigorously. The uprising of Eminem also immersed into the American young generations, since they shares the same cultural background and skin color as Eminem. Hence Eminem suggesting that if he was black , he would not be as successful as now, as his music would get grouped in the rest of the hip-hop