Rhetorical Devices In Wake Up

In Wake Up, Arcade Fire discusses about bottling up one's emotions as they grow up instead of confronting one's issue, which can lead to pain and suffrage. The song is told through the artists reflecting back on their past and teaching youth to not repress their emotion, like the artists had. Arcade Fire’s opening stanza represents how individuals tend to bury their issues deep within themselves. Arcade Fire talks about “something [filling] up [one’s] heart with nothing, [and] someone [telling them] not to cry”. This represents an individual masking their pain that burns their internal thoughts, by not crying. Throughout an individual’s growth, they progressively lose their innocence, and the continuous buildup of emotion can makes their “heart’s