Musical Lyrics

When writing a song, ,or a sonnet who actually stops to think about what type of english device they could put in? If you watch some write a song, they aren't exactly jumping at the idea of throwing in a metaphor or personification. Usually they let the flow of their thoughts come out onto the page, while building a story or creating some type of rhyme. I guess, what I'm trying to get at is, are these things truly metaphors, and personification from the writers point of view or only the reader and listener? Each person probably has his or her opinion about it, so what's yours?

Comments

[Kim W.]

I think many writers do put metaphors and personification intentionally in their lyrics to enhance the meaning of it. I believe that they realize the typical listener to music will not try to spot out all of the literary techniques, but I do believe subconsciously we pick up on the techniques and it just makes the song better.
I always wondered, what made one person's song lyrics better than another person's. I'm guessing it's a lot because they used literary techniques.

[Emily B.]

I think that if a writer is really focusing on the message he/she is trying to convey in a song, then naturally they will use literary techniques to better explain it. Like Kim said, it can be intentional, but it also could be subconcious.

[Nicholas D.]

I think that many writers let their thoughts flow, but only as a first draft or rough idea. From their they use rhetorical devices and edit their ideas to make them more powerful, and easy to interpret.