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Feb 9, 2021 · Metaphors represent over 70% of figurative language used to convey love and emotion in pop music. Over two-thirds of love songs reflect the correlation between physical proximity and possession.
Feb 9, 2021 · According to the analysis by Climent Roca and Coll-Florit, each of the songs analysed uses metaphor to speak of love. Among the hundreds of love metaphors used most, those that refer to love as proximity, possession, union, physical contact, captivity or as a journey stand out.
Aug 16, 2024 · Metaphors in Love Songs. Metaphors about love songs universally convey feelings of passion, longing, pain, and joy, painting vivid pictures of the complexities of human relationships. Adele – “Rolling in the Deep”: The deep is a metaphor for intense emotions and the abyss of a failed relationship.
Feb 9, 2021 · According to the analysis by Climent Roca and Coll-Florit, each of the songs analyzed uses metaphor to speak of love. Among the hundreds of love metaphors used most, those that refer to love...
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Our findings indicate that the theme of romantic love is prevalent in US mainstream pop music over the course of seven decades but shows evolutionary features. Metaphors of love evolve from conventional to novel with a notable increase in both heartbreak and erotic metaphors.
- Salvador Climent, Marta Coll-Florit
- 2021
Feb 14, 2024 · Love has also resounded as a metaphor: a battlefield, the devil, the drug, a temple, a higher law. Paul Simon’s metaphor about “the arc of a love affair” in “Hearts And Bones” is one of ...
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Oct 26, 2020 · This study examines the use of metaphors, metonymies and metaphorical similes for love in a selective corpus of the most commercially successful US hit songs from 1946 to 2016 according to ...
