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Analyzing the Language Features of the Song 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen
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Analyzing the Language Features of the Song 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen
Hyperbole
Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
The two lines imply hyperbolic expression in which the speaker is asking himself
whether his existence is real or just fantasy, The fact is that certainly the speaker is still alive since he is still able to ask the question and because he is alive then his life is real.
Caught in a landslide,
No escape from reality
The line contains hyperbole because there is exaggeration in the meaning of the sentence ‘no escape from reality’. The fact is that there is no way a person cannot escape from reality.
Mamaaa, life had just begun,
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
Hyperbole is used in the sentence ‘I’ve gone and thrown it all away’ instead of saying that the speaker has ruined his life, the speaker prefers to exaggerate it by saying thrown it all.
I'm just a poor boy nobody loves me
The sentence ‘nobody loves me’ is an exaggeration. The speaker exaggerates the condition that nobody cares about him. The fact is that even though he is poor there has to be someone who still cares.
So you think you can love me and leave me to die
The statement is about an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally. Actually, it is telling the exaggerated matter. Simply stated, leaving a person will not kill the other person. Then, in fact, he will not die because that person leaves him.
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Methapor
Caught in a landslide
The singer, Freddie, does not mean that he is literally or clearly caught in a landslide. It, actually, compares two unlike things, ‘caught in a landslide’, which directs to be comparing the ‘landslide’ to many events that happen.
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
It has no other imprecise figurative language besides declaring it as metaphor. That person
literally, while enunciating that line, cannot face the truth face to face. So, upon the word
and as saying to be asserted, the point of figurative language here reflects to how someone
deals with the problem inside of life.
Simile
Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters
The use of ‘as if’ indicates that simile is used as a poetic device. The speaker asks people to carry on their affair just like nothing happened.
Personification
Sends shivers down my spine,
It aims to personify. Hereafter, it is about the attribution of a personal nature or
human features to something non-human, or the delegation of an abstract quality in human
form. It has nothing sent shivers down his spine. However, it is just about the feeling he
feels, which thinks how his time has come. The shiver itself does not really go down his
spine.
Antithesis
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy,
The line implies the idea of contrast by parallel structures of the contrasted meaning of two sentences. The first sentence contains the meaning of being poor which normally need help or at least eager to be helped, but the second sentence indicate the opposite to the common fact that is eagerness to be helped
Symbolism
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow,
It tells about the symbolism. Its artistic and poetic motion uses illustrative images and indirect recommendation to express mystical ideas, emotions, and states of mind. It is assumed, he may die and if he does then they will have to move on knowing he will not be with them anymore.
Paradox
I don't want to die,
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all.
The speaker said that he didn't want to die anyway. But in the next sentence he said that he actually didn't want to be born if he knew his life would be this ruined. But we know that the cause of his life being ruined was due to his own mistakes which earned him the death penalty.
