“Drag Me Down”

The theme of this song “Drag Me Down” is that nobody can take you down with the love and support of someone else. This shows that with the right support nobody can make you want to quit something that you have started. This song really speaks to a lot of people and it is one of the best.

One Direction expresses figurative language in a few places in the song. They use a good example of hyperbole when they say, “If I didn't have you there would be nothing left…” (One Direction 7). They over exaggerate that if the love of their life was gone, he would have nothing else to live for, but there are a million things to live for. Which some people might believe that their world is going to come crashing down but only time will …show more content…
Like the use of punctuation and the use of some sort of rhymes. Writers, such as One Direction, used a good example of how they made their lines sound like they rhymed, a near rhyme. If one reads, One Direction states, “If I didn't have you there would be nothing left… The shell of a man who could never be his best…” (One Direction 8-9). How they used the form it gets you into the song, makes you want to listen more into the lyrics. Some use form in many different ways than others. One Direction used form by using punctuation throughout their song. As you can see One Direction says, “With your love, nobody can drag me down…” (One Direction 17). This emphasizes that whenever the singer is singing that they need to pause and continue with an explosion when they start up again. It makes the song come more alive. Some authors use crazy words to grab others attentions and it works. Like One Direction sings, “I got a river for a soul...And baby you're a boat…” (One Direction 4-5). This also shows that they writers used different word choice than most would. “and baby you’re a boat” is meaning that no one can sink you, a boat floats and just like life, nobody can turn it around and make it