The Ambivalence in the Metaphor Life is Wine from the song "No I in Threesome" by Interpol: The Semantic Analysis of the Lyrics of a Post-Punk Revival Song

The song with lyrics can be seen as a poetic text due to the evidence of figures of speech, images, and symbolism, as well as, phonetic resources that reflect the musicality of poetic language. In this sense, the post-punk revival band Interpol wrote No I in Threesome, the account of a persona tryin...

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Published in:Revista de lenguas modernas 2020-01 (33), p.149-162
Main Author: Boza Méndez, David
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bands
Literary criticism
Lyrics
Metaphor
Musical performances
Musicians & conductors
Onomatopoeia
Phonetics
Poetry
Rhetorical figures
Semantic analysis
Semantics
Songs
Sound
Symbolism
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Summary:The song with lyrics can be seen as a poetic text due to the evidence of figures of speech, images, and symbolism, as well as, phonetic resources that reflect the musicality of poetic language. In this sense, the post-punk revival band Interpol wrote No I in Threesome, the account of a persona trying to convince his significant other to have a threesome. This song includes the metaphor life is wine, which makes explicit the poetic value of the song. But not only that, the metaphor also shows how a statement, in this case a statement part of a literary text, can have different meanings.
ISSN:1659-1933
2215-5643
DOI:10.15517/rlm.v0i33.41400