Alex Fuller-5th 11/19/14
Figurative Language In a Song
Take Me Home, Country Roads by John Denver
Almost heaven, West Virginia,
Blue ridge mountain, Shenandoah river,
Life is old there, older than the trees,
Younger than the mountains, flowing like a breeze
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong,
West Virginia,
Mountain mamma,take me home
Country roads
All my memories, gather round her
Miner’s lady, stranger to blue water
Dark and dusty, painted on the sky
Misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye
Country roads, take me home
To the place I belong,
West Virginia,
Mountain mamma, take me home
country roads
What else could better represent this song than a picture of the mountains of West Virginia? John Denver’s central message of this song is to simply convey his love and appreciation of the state of West Virginia. He grew up there and has created all of his memories there. So there can’t truly be anything else that successfully conveys the message of this song.
Wander, Forest. “Fall Camping North Fork Mountain WV – Gather.com.”Gather.com. Gather Family Essential, 3 Oct. 2008. Web. 01 Dec. 2014. <http://gather.com/fall-camping-north-fork-mountain-wv/>.My Google doc: