Na we Get Am. Changing perceptions of dialects

I found this post on a blog talking about how in Nigeria, though Pidgin is used in setting ranging from friends talking to politicians giving speeches, and is the genuine lingua franca of the country it still has the stigma of being the language of the uneducated since it isn't 'proper' English, and a campagin promoting respecting it in Nigeria.

This sounds like something that probably happens a lot in nations where there are prevelant dialects that have clear deviations from 'standard' English, but are widly used in everything but writing in school.

Link

Your Brain on Fiction

According to this NY Times article, new research shows that the human brain makes little distinction between reading something and actually experiencing it.  The more sensory details, the more this is the case: 

"Reading produces a vivid simulation of reality, one that 'runs on minds of readers just as computer simulations run on computers.' Fiction — with its redolent details, imaginative metaphors and attentive descriptions of people and their actions — offers an especially rich replica. Indeed, in one respect novels go beyond simulating reality to give readers an experience unavailable off the page: the opportunity to enter fully into other people’s thoughts and feelings" 

                          Amazing!!

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/opinion/sunday/the-neuroscience-of-your-brain-on-fiction.html

Are Accents One of the Last Acceptable Areas for Discrimination?

http://www.joe.org/joe/2009february/comm1.php

The link above is a paper written on the issue of discrimination based on accents. It is a pretty lengthy study, however it is broken down into several sections like: "Standard English, Accents and etc". I think that this essay is a pretty good find because it has a direct relationship with the material that we study in class, particularly with the poem written by Tom Leonard (6 o'clock news). The essay looks over different types of accents, peoples attitudes towards them and then discusses the main issue - "Are Accents One of the Last Acceptable Areas for Discrimination?".  Also on the bottom of the page, there are a bunch of interesting comments posted by some readers who discuss this topic. Also worth a read.

Physica est vita. Et hodierna studio vitae est arte. Words are dying right now. Are you helping to kill them? The Hot Word | Hot & Trending Words Daily Blog at Dictionary.com

Words are dying right now. Are you helping to kill them? The Hot Word | Hot & Trending Words Daily Blog at Dictionary.com
In class we hath spent numerous sundials postulating ideas on the topic of creating new words and how using them expandth our language, adding diversity to it, and overall has no negative consequences.
The decoy
However, mine malchicks and devotchkas, it at times falls on one to make sure their droogs viddy the truth, no matter how much it will charagin their mozgs.
Setting the stage
So, without further ado (and Nadsat), I durst pour water and sand on your unholistic fire. Ergo, we present the somewhat ovbious issue that words are dying. However, the standardization of language by technology(often hailed as the birthplace and home of so much innovation), spellcheck, and the like, creation of new words can't catch on or really happen, as you're blatently told that they're wrong. Also, synonym death, a term that refers to words dying out of use, in favor of words with similar meanings that are shorter(wait, isn't that a tradmark of these great new creations), easier to spell, or 'hip', leads to longer words dying.
The hand is revealed
Thus, as a recent study by physicists found, words are actually dying at a faster rate than ever before today. So congratulations everyone, your precious little new ducklings are actually vicious murderers which go around in the night murdering older words, just because they can.
Checkmate in 4
That sound in the background right now is words dying.
And the winner is Hov.  Speech...

CHOSEN POEM

Time Time Time

Cause time cant make things better
Cause time cant make things right
Cause time cant change are past

I’ll keep holding on, Being strong, for you
I’ll keep being strong, seeing through, for you
Cause time cant make things better
Cause time cant make things right
Cause with time you never know better
Cause time cant make a change
Cause with time we cant complain
I’ll hold on to you with all the time in the world
If time could give that time back with you again
Oh how id be true to you
oh how id hold you in my arms
But time cant make things better
Cause time cant make things right
Say id hold you from now in till forever tonight
Yah tonight
But cant make things better
No time cant make things right
If with time we only knew better and make it right
Cause time we cant change

But time cant make things better
Cause time cant make things right
Say id hold you from now in till forever tonight
Yah tonight
But cant make things better
No time cant make things right
If with time we only knew better and make it right
Cause time we cant change
Cause with time we cant complain
I’ll hold to you forever
I’ll make it seem better
I’LL keep holding on being strong for you
Ill keep holding on seeing through for you
And I’ll hold you in my arms
Will dance under the moon
Baby I promise you will be together real soon
I got time on my hands Time on my hand
I give it all away to see you again
Just to see you again
In the futures of time
Time time 

Sammy S. Quence

1. Poem that I chose is called "Time Time Time" which was written by Sammy S. Quence
2. "Time is a not a healer" is the metaphorical concept used in this poem. It is a pretty odd concept because in most literary works time is indeed a healer. 
3. In most cultures time is considered a healer because if there is a problem, a person is able to solve it with time (in most cases). Therefore, its the person's effort which is the real healer, not the time itself. The poet is trying to prove this very same problem by emphasizing that if one doesn't do anything, time wont solve his problems because no-one can control time, and time isn't a person who can do things for you.

My Chosen Poem

The lyrics I chose are from the song “Radio by Beyonce”. Beyonce talks about the radio as if it were a man and how she’s in love with it. It is fair to say that people can only fall in love with people, so for Beyonce to say that she is in love with a radio, shows the metaphorical relationship between a man and a radio.

Usually, people are capable of letting you down, not objects. Beyonce states “I think I’m in love with my radio because it never lets me down”. This shows that she sees her radio as if it were a human being, personifying it. Additionally, she refers to her mother and father’s points of view on the “radio” and how they don’t mind them “hanging out”. Normally, parents would be concerned about their daughters hanging out with people that could potentially be their partner in a relationship. Beyonce also states “He's got a place in my heart” She refers to the radio as a male and that “he” has got a place in her heart.

Beyonce is from the music industry, and the cultural significance this song has is that they are quite big on music, and the radio being a form of playing of music, she shows her love and importance towards it by symbolizing it and personifying the radio as a man.

Radio – Beyonce

I think I'm in love with my radio

Because it never lets me down

And I fall in love with my stereo

Whenever I hear that sound

The only one that papa allowed to hang out in my room with the door closed

We'd be alone

And mama never freaked out when she heard it go boom [chuckle]

'Cause she knew we were in the zone

Hold him in my arms and look out on my window at the moonlight

And he, deep, keepin' me close so I never let him go

He's got a place in my heart

"Trampoline" by: Shel Silverstien

1) The main two things that are being compared are the directions of up and down and their relationship with our emotions. The poem goes on about describing how a child was bouncing up and down a trampoline with a girl but they never met each other because she was always the opposite direction of where he was. This metaphor may also relate to life because sometimes there are people whom you might want to meet with but they always seem to be on the other side of something, whether it is business or location or even time there always is something that stands in the way. Another way of looking at it, you can ignore how it relates to life and really focus on the directions which the two people are going in. The main idea is that these two people are on the same platform but each is going a different way and the poem ends by telling us they never met and that is one way we can relate opposite directions to the fact that in life we can be so close but yet so far.

2) This metaphor doesn’t have a large cultural significance but I am pretty sure that in every culture if two things are opposite each other and there is a chance that they will never come close, than it is most likely that people would find it awkward to support going in that opposite direction, which is seen as against the norm. Sometimes we just have to accept things the way they are and if that means there is no in between or that shade of grey which when the poem can be the meeting of these two people on the trampoline than that is that and we have to carry on with our lives.

"Death Be not Proud" and "To Sleep" Questions + Black Elk:

1) Death be not Proud:

I would not avoid him but rather be with neutral terms with him. The reason for this is because I would want to die at some point and I would like to have that be a nice and natural easy death. I would also want to ask questions about certain things we humans don’t know about the process of dying. He speaks to death in a very negative way as though he is seen as a loser who means nothing to him.

2) He uses a capital D in order to refer to death as a person instead of a thing. He did this in order to show that death has super powers to take our lives but he still resembles humans, it is as if he is trying to bring him down to our level where we can understand the concept more fully.

3) Triumphant, condescending and angry are all some of the tones the speaker uses in this poem. A clear example of this would be the fourth line, “Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.”, and the last line “And death shall be no more; Death thou shalt die.” Of course these tones are also present throughout the whole poem.

4) One of the reasons that the speaker gives us is the fact that he doesn’t think death should be proud because even though it has the ability to take lives away from us we can have control over that in the first place and the speaker gives an example of this by saying “one short sleep past, we wake eternally”.

5) It has a special power that we humans don’t have and that is to take someone’s life away anytime and anywhere. This makes us label it since the dawn of time as something that stimulates negative feelings. These feelings than eventually want to have some form of thing or force to blame the death on and what better would suit the job than death the concept.

6) He suggests that it can be defeated if one takes his/her life before death.

7) It says a lot of things. It is obvious that in most cultures death is not seen very positively but one of the major things that are associated with death that makes us see it as such of an adversary is that it stands for the end of life. Whether the culture calls for the belief in after life or not it has this metaphorical meaning that whatever comes after that was one chance for the person to live that life. I think that another way of viewing death is positively. One can see death as their time to rest from life or as just the transitioning between lives.

To Sleep:

1) Sleep, the poetic device being used here is personification since sleep is brought down to a human form so that we can conceptualize it more vividly.

2) “O soft embalmer of the still midnight,” Sleep is an embalmer because when we are asleep we somehow resemble a corpse that has been preserved. It is like when we sleep we take this temporary rest which is similar to dying in a way but it will end once the day starts.

3) Forgetfulness is divine because if we didn’t forget we would be stressed the whole time not having a break in which we give our mind a break and have some time to reflect upon what we wish to do not what we had done.

4) Sleep saves the speaker from the past days and his actions. It is as if it is like a safe haven for the speaker to relax and have his woes leave him. He values it so much because he wants to forget all what has happened to him during the day. He might have been suffering Insomnia and so really yearns for that sample of sleep.

5) He describes it as something that is curious and always comes to him strongly when he sleeps. Conscience is personified with a capital C. Also he used the simile burrowing like a mole to describe how deep his conscience can get under his skin and head. Another example is of poetic devices he uses is personification when he mentions that his conscience is curious. This gives something that is not person human features which makes it easier for us to conceptualize the meaning of the poem.

6) “And the seal hushed Casket of my soul”. These two share the same general meaning of an object or force that is shaped to hold things. So for example a casket is like a chest were you place valuable things. Whereas the soul is something in everyone that contains your conscience. Therefore when you seal these containers you are basically trying to keep them away from you to relax.

7) Sleep is like ‘mini death’. In a way it sort of is the same thing but one of them is temporary while the other lasts forever.

8) I might have to say that he will think about in the same nature. The reason for this is because he shows through the whole poem that he is seeking some form of peace and death in a way is peace.

Black Elk:

1) The most things that speaks out for me is the seamless infusion of nature with language and how that culture uses it to describe things that occur naturally in the earth. I also think that the culture is linked so closely to what they look at in nature and this quote represents this, “I was born in the Moon of the Popping Trees (December) on the Little Powder River in the Winter When the Four Crows Were Killed (1863), and I was three years old when my father’s right leg was broken in the Battle of the Hundred Slain” One doesn’t get it instantly but the names have greater meaning than what they sound. Another feature of this excerpt is technique in which the author used metaphor to resemble emotions felt. For example in the third paragraph, “It is like some fearful thing in a fog, for it was time when everything seemed troubled and afraid”. This quote uses the weather which is a part of nature to explain a human emotion. Unlike the previous example this feature uses nature in a more figurative way that stands for emotion instead of a more literal meaning. The last feature that I picked up and I found quite unique about this excerpt is the simplicity of the language. It is very down to the point and straightforward as seen in this example, “… and they wanted to have a road up through our country to the place where the yellow metal was;”

2) I think he means either crescent moon which makes sense because anyone who eats from a circular shape makes a crescent like shape with his mouth. This nature metaphor might also resemble a moon that has many craters and therefore is bitten.

3) In different parts of the world humans have different views of things. This all can be due to other factors such as time, location and environment. Here we can seen that language does lead to certain boundaries but it is our way of describing what is around us or what we value the most. In this text we can see that Black elk looks with a nature eye over everything whereas in other parts of the world people look at what they think is most valuable to their identity and they incorporate it within their language making it communicate what they percept.

4) Well firstly I definitely speak more than one language and sometimes combine both of them which makes it even more different, but that aside I think that the restricted use of vocabulary can be seen as a major difference since I am 100% sure that I don’t speak in that sort of monotone voice. My language is also influenced by my surrounding which is not very similar to that in Black Elk’s world and that might act as a huge difference. This tells us that your surrounding does affect your language greatly and that in different cultures we value different things. With Black Elk for example he took nature very seriously whereas I might take something else more seriously like schooling and my Arabic culture, and this might be seen in the language that I speak.

9) For one thing it is not as angry and mad at death as the other poem. It definitely does not have the same challenging tone and it seems to want death to overcome him for a short period of time unlike the other poem which doesn’t care what death does but rather how it approaches one.

Marching On: Metaphorical Poem

1.      Poem chosen: ‘Excelsior’ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

2.      Metaphor: Life is a difficult journey where you need determination to go against others suggestions to attempt to reach your goal.  The process of which may kill you, though at times death immortalizes you.

3.      People teach you that life’s hard, and you at times have to make hard decisions or give up things you want for something you want more.  ‘Western’ culture at times looks at life as a challenge, where you have to fight and strive for things you want, going against others suggestions or what is considered normal or ‘sane.’  Additionally, people who die in a manner considered tragic, being young and trying to accomplish something rather than giving up and doing what others say they should are often memorialized.  You often hear about people trying to ‘reach the pinnacle of their field’ or the phrase, ‘get rich or die trying’.  These both display the ideals expressed in this poem, that one should try to achieve things, even if it means risking something that’s important to you, and that life is a journey that is something like climbing up a mountain.  Looking at it culturally, it and gives more meaning to ideals like how America is considered by Americans to be built on people who felt like taking risks and going against what people were advising them to do.  It also is intertwined with phrases like ‘no pain, no gain’ and the ideal that one always has more work that can be done.

My Chosen Poem

The Road Less Traveled

by Kit McCallum

How often we must bear the challenges of life; The endless roller coaster between happiness and sorrow; The constant ups and downs of daily strife. And always the question remains .... why? Life is not an easy road for most; It twists and turns with many forks in the road, Although always, and inevitably, we are given a choice ... Do we turn to the right ... or the left? Do we take the high road ... or the low road? Do we take the easy path ... or the difficult one? Decisions are not easy for those struggling for direction ... And sometimes the many choices and signs become overwhelming. While standing at a crossroads in life, The urge is to take the most comfortable path; The road with least resistance ... The shortest or most traveled route. And yet, if we've been down that comfortable road before; Have gleaned its lessons in life, and learned from our experiences; Do we yet again follow the known? Or does our destiny lie in another direction? The fear of the road less traveled is tangible and all too real; It manifests itself in many ways, And tends to cloud the issues that might otherwise be clear. It is in these times of confusion, That we must seek peace and solitude; Time to contemplate on our life, Our experiences and our choices past; Time to look back, and reflect on what we have learned Without fear or confusion. For only each of us knows our own personal thoughts; Our unique past and personal history; The experiences that brought us to the crossroads we now face. We can always learn a small degree from others experiences, And yet ... no one person can walk in our shoes, Others know not, the trials and tribulations faced in private ... For each is individual ... unique ... and personal. And that is why ... while standing at a crossroads, Only "we" can formulate the decision for ourselves; The true direction that lies within; The choices we must deliberate on with clarity and wisdom. For it is only through personal reflection, That we can now choose our destiny; ... Our next adventure; ... And the future we will embrace.

Identify the metaphor and the relationship between the two things being compared- What do they have in common? How can we understand one in terms of the other?

This Poem uses 2 main different (but similar) metaphors that describe life;

(1) Life is a Rollercoaster

This metaphor can be deduced from the first Stanza where is quotes, “The endless roller coaster between happiness and sorrow/ The constant ups and downs of daily strife.” A roller coaster goes up and down, similarly to life where sometimes we feel sad (down) and sometimes we feel happy (up).

(2) Life is a Road

This poem brilliantly described the many possible comparison of life to a road. The author describes life as different roads to take,

For example, in Stanza 3 it quotes “Do we turn to the right ... or the left?” In other words should we take the right road or the left road? This describes the right decisions you make in you life as the right road and the wrong decisions as the left road.

Another Example is when he explains taking the high road or the low road. This describes how sometime in life we forgive people or make the wise decisions as taking the “higher road” and the “low road” describes the bad decisions or the immature actions we do.

Finally this poem talks about taking the easy path or the hard path, to explain the concept of taking life easy and getting the easy way out rather than challenging yourself and talking the difficult path.

3) What cultural significance does this metaphor have?

The metaphors used in this poem are very popular and probably common in many cultures. I often see life described as a road or journey in many different countries. Even in Arabic we use the exact same meaning of the metaphors. I feel that these types of metaphors are mostly used because they are the most effective and beautiful way to describe life and the different paths one can take.

Invictus

Invictus

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul. 

William Ernest Henley

The metaphorical concept of Invictus is that darkness is horrible and evil or something like that. It comes from seeing darkness as being something to be scared of. The Doctor explains this as caused by the presence of Vashta Nerada. However, a seemingly more likely explanation is that people rely primarily on sight to experience the world and in the dark people have difficulty seeing and so it disconcerts them. Add to this the presence of predators that hunt at night and human imagination and one gets fear of the possibilities of the dark. Evil is something that people have come up with and something people are often also afraid of. Linking these two frightening things together isn't that difficult.

The metaphor is reflected hugely in culture, especially in fiction. In films when something is supposed to be evil, hated, depressing, etc. the world is often made dark. In fiction in general the evil antagonist often is dressed in black or accompanied by darkness. The metaphor can even be seen in language where the 'dark' has come to be synonymous with negative feelings such as hate or misery.

Death, My Friend - Chosen Poem

Death, My Friend

Death, my friend - so good to see you!
Stand aloft and view my soul!
I have to say you’re looking frightful -
Bony chum, you affable ghoul.

Death, my friend, so charmed I’m sure!
State your case and tell me straight -
Am I worthy of reward, so
Venture I to Heaven’s Gate?

Death, my friend, a new acquaintance!
You're always welcome in my home -
Though the stare from empty sockets
Indicates to Hell we roam!

Death, my friend - my bosom buddy.
My! your finger points at me!
Be you tired of my frivolity?
Aha, I see - Oblivion, we!

The metaphor in this poem is that death is an old friend. The tone of the poem is quite happy even though it’s about quite a sad subject. Death is being personified as an old friend, somebody that you haven’t seen in a while but you know quite well. By personifying death, it makes the idea of death not so bad. It also allows you to accept your death, so why not make it a happy ending instead of a sad one. We all know about death from quite a young age. This metaphor is actually quite a nice way of telling a child that one of their loved ones has died.

This metaphor has been used many many times in pop culture. One of the biggest examples I can think of is in the Harry Potter series. In the Deathly Hollows, the Tale of Three Brothers talks about three brothers who outsmart Death and so Death rewards them. The elder brother asks for the most powerful wand, the middle brother asked for a resurrection stone, and the youngest asked for an invisibility cloak. While the two older brothers tried to outsmart Death, their lives were taken by Death. But, the youngest brother was able to hide under the cloak and live his life, and then finally when he was ready, he greeted Death as a friend and left peacefully.

Space bound by Eminem - Love is Evil

1) Find a poem that revolves around a particular metaphorical concept (like the examples we've discussed).

"Space Bound"

[Verse 1:]

We touch I feel a rush

We clutch it isn't much

But it's enough to make me wonder what's in store for us

It's lust, it's torturous

You must be a sorceress 'cause you just

Did the impossible

Gained my trust don't play games it'll be dangerous

If you f*** me over

'Cause if I get burnt imma show you what it's like to hurt

'Cause I been treated like dirt before you

And love is "evol"

Spell it backwards I'll show you

Nobody knows me I'm cold

Walk down this road all alone

It's no one's fault but my own

It's the path I've chosen to go

Frozen as snow I show no emotion whatsoever so

Don't ask me why I have no love for these m************ hoes

Bloodsucking succubuses, what the f*** is up with this?

I've tried in this department but I ain't had no luck with this

It sucks but it's exactly what I thought it would be

Like trying to start over

I got a hole in my heart, for some kind of emotional roller-coaster

Something I won't go on 'til you toy with my emotion, so it's over

It's like an explosion every time I hold you, I wasn't joking when I told you

You take my breath away

You're a supernova... and I'm a

[Chorus:]
I'm a space bound rocket ship and your heart's the moon
And I'm aiming right at you
Right at you
Two hundred fifty thousand miles on a clear night in June
And I'm aiming right at you
Right at you
Right at you

[Verse 2:]
I do whatever it takes
When I'm with you I get the shakes
My body aches when I ain't
With you I have zero strength
There's no limit on how far I would go
No boundaries, no lengths
Why do we say that until we get that person that we thinks
Gonna be that one and then once we get 'em it's never the same?
You want them when they don't want you
Soon as they do feelings change
It's not a contest and I ain't on no conquest for no mate
I wasn't looking but I stumbled onto you must've been fate
But so much is at stake what the fuck does it take
Let's cut to the chase
But a door shuts in your face
Promise me if I cave in and break and leave myself open
That I won't be making a mistake
Cause I'm a...

[Chorus]

[Verse 3:]
So after a year and 6 months it's no longer me that you want
But I love you so much it hurts
Never mistreated you once
I poured my heart out to you
Let down my guard swear to God
I'll blow my brains in your lap
Lay here and die in your arms
Drop to my knees and I'm pleading
I'm trying to stop you from leaving
You won't even listen so f*** it
I'm trying to stop you from breathing
I put both hands on your throat
I sit on top of you squeezing
'Til I snap you neck like a Popsicle stick
Ain't no possible reason I could think of to let you walk about this house
And let you live
Tears stream down both of my cheeks
Then I let you go and just give
And before I put that gun to my temple
I told you this

[Gunshot]

And I would've done anything for you
To show you how much I adored you
But it's over now
It's too late to save our love
Just promise me you'll think of me every time you look up in the sky and see a star 'cause I'm a

[Chorus:]
I'm a space bound rocket ship and your heart's the moon
And I'm aiming right at you
Right at you
250 thousand miles on a clear night in June
And I'm so lost without you
Without you
Without you

Space Bound - Music Video

2) Identify the metaphor and the relationship between the two things being compared- What do they have in common? How can we understand one in terms of the other?

There are many many similarities between Eminem's song Space Bound and the metaphor "Love is Evil". Here we are going to look at these similarities into more detail.

1. "It's lust, it's torturous" - This shows us a similarity between the metaphor Love is Evil because it mentions how this love is so torturous, and how it plays with his feelings.
2. "don't play games it'll be dangerous" - Here we can see that Eminem mentions to not play any games with love because the consequences they might face will be dangerous and it won't be worth it because you would not want to go against someone that is Evil (in our case it is love).
3. "'Cause if I get burnt imma show you what it's like to hurt" - In this line we can see that Eminem is mention that if he gets hurt by these games he will hurt you in a much harsher way and it shows how love is so evil and the partners are always looking for revenge if one hurt the other one.
4. "And love is "evol" spell it backwards I'll show you" - Here Eminem mentions himself that love spelt backwards is evol. Which is a great way to express this metaphor.
5. "Frozen as snow I show no emotion whatsoever so" - After he has been hurt by this "evil" love he has no emotions anymore towards anyone or anything and he is just so shocked about everything and how evil love can be.
6. "I got a hole in my heart, for some kind of emotional roller-coaster, something I won't go on 'til you toy with my emotion, so it's over" - Here we can see that the artist mentions how he is not letting go of his love no matter how much hard time he is going to go through and he doesn't care how love hurts him and how evil it can be he will still hold on to it and not let go because it's like a roller-coaster, it has its ups and downs and he won't stop until its over.
7. "I do whatever it takes, when I'm with you I get the shakes" - Here we can see that even though love is so evil , us human beings sill manage to still fall inlove and do whatever it takes to be with our partners even though it would hurt us a lot at the end .
8. "But I love you so much it hurts" - Here we can see that loving someone can lead you to be hurt a lot by just the smallest things that they do that might irritate you.
9. "I'll blow my brains in your lap, lay here and die in your arms, drop to my knees and I'm pleading, I'm trying to stop you from leaving" - Here we can see that Eminem is even saying that he will sacrifice himself from how much he loves his mate but she still wants to leave him, this shows how even if you are willing to sacrifice yourself love is too evil and will do what it wants to do.
10. "I'm trying to stop you from breathing, I put both hands on your throat, I sit on top of you squeezing, 'til I snap you neck like a Popsicle stick" - Here we can see another side of Eminem's reaction towards how evil love is and instead of talking nicely he is trying to kill his mate because she keeps on hurting him and instead Eminem because the evil one in love and tries to kill his partner.
11. "And I would've done anything for you, to show you how much I adored you, but it's over now, It's too late to save our love" - Here we can see that from how much love there was Eminem was willing to do anything for his partner but not it's too late because love hurt him a lot and it's too late to save it.

3) What cultural significance does this metaphor have?

This metaphor can mean the same thing if translated into my mother tongue (Farsi) and it will mean the same thing and the metaphor is perceived the same way in Farsi with the same meaning.