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”Fragile” Song

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Sting is a composer that writes songs about what truly matter in the world. He writes a lot of music that is touching to the heart and that speaks to an audience on a personal level. ā€œFragileā€ is a song that has meaning to it, itā€™s a song biography, and itā€™s a song that talks about an actual event that happened in real life. Fragile is a sincere song. It speaks to people and expresses the emotionā€™s felt during a loss of a person. The song uses repetition, personification, and imagery, this conveys to the tone of grieving and sympathetic.

Sting usesā€™ reputational phrases throughout the song. He is getting the point that everyone is fragile, no matter how much a bad hearted person doesnā€™t want to believe it. He uses the phrases ā€œThat nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could/For all those born beneath an angry star/Lest we forget how fragile we areā€ (Sting 7-9) with that line Sting is saying that violence doesnā€™t lead to anything and that we are all born nice unless someone is born under an evil star, people only forget about that because they fear of how fragile the human race really is. ā€œFragileā€ represents the value of life. Sting talks about how taking a mans life, especially a man who wanted to change the world. In the verse ā€œFor all those born beneath an angry starā€ (Sting 8) Sting personifies a star into a mad human like creature who has evil values and wants to harm people anybody around them who have moral values.

ā€œPerhaps this final act was meant/ To clinch a lifetimeā€™s argument/ That nothing comes from violence and nothing ever couldā€ (Sting 5-7) That represents how he is trying to put that image into the listeners head, the image being of a violent event occurring and how this violent event shows that nothing ever comes from violence and that nothing ever could, and to learn a lesson from this and stop all the bloodshed around the world. An ā€œevil starā€ caused violence once and that shouldnā€™t have been there in the first place, but donā€™t let it happen again. Sting different styles for each song that he composes, but the ones that really stick out are the songs from the ā€˜80s. Back in the day he didnā€™tĀ focus on how to impress the audience or how to per sway people to listen to his music. He just sang about what reality and many people could and can connect to his words. Fragile uses repetition, personification, and imagery, the tone that the song conveys is sympathetic and grieving. Sting gets this tone across not only with his words of the song, but with his tone of speech and the slowness of the song, his British accent also gives the song a more mellow feel to it.

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