Imagery through loss through country music

The song Hurry Home has a lot of imagery. One example is in the first line which says, “He’s been
sitting by the phone since she left.” Another example is when the last line of the
first statement says, “And then he softly sings,” which helps you see that he
is singing the chorus while playing his guitar, which is said in the third and
fourth lines in the first stanza. In the first line of the sixth stanza, it
says, “She was just outside a bar in New York City.” Anyone can easily see a
girl sitting in a bar in the city. In the fourth line of the same stanza it
says, “But she dialed up that old number, and let it ring,” which is simply saying
that she called someone on her phone. The last lines of the song say, “He
walked in just in time to hear her say, Dad I’m on my way,” which helps you see
the dad walk in the room to hear her say that on the answering machine.



Travelin’ Soldier by: the Dixie Chicks is another country song that shows a lot of
imagery. The whole first stanza is talking about how a soldier “Gave his order to a girl with a bow in her hair” (stanza 1 line 4). A person can picture the girl giving “him a smile” (stanza 1 line 5). In the first line of the second stanza a person can see a girl and a soldier sit “on the pier.” The last line in the chorus helps you picture the letter saying “the soldier’s coming home.” The whole fourth stanza has a person picture a girl getting a bunch of letters saying things like, “When it's gettin' kinda rough over here I think of that day, sittin' down at the pier And I close my eyes and see your pretty smile Don't worry, but I won't be able to write for awhile” (stanza 4 lines 7-10). The sixth stanza helps the person picture a girl at a football game and a person reading off names of soldiers who passed away.