Let it Go By Idina Menzel

        The song Let it Go by Idina Menzel from the Disney movie, Frozen, is probably one of my favorite songs right now. In the beginning of the song cacophony is used to make it seem bitter towards her past of concealing herself. Assonance and euphony are used to make her sound sad by stretching out the words. Also the anaphora of the word ’don’t’ in the third stanza shows how many rules she has had to follow her whole life and how much she wants to get away from them. These things also continue on through the rest of the song but their purpose changes as the song changes.

The snow glows white on the mountain tonight
Not a footprint to be seen
A kingdom of isolation,
And it looks like I’m the Queen.

The wind is howling like this swirling storm inside
Couldn’t keep it in, heaven knows I tried

Don’t let them in, don’t let them see
Be the good girl you always have to be
Conceal, don’t feel, don’t let them know
Well, now they know

            In the line “No right, no wrong, no rules for me” the anaphora of the word ‘no’ emphasizes her freedom and that she doesn’t have thing controlling her anymore. The sound patterns such as cacophony, assonance, and euphony that I mentioned earlier are now used to make her words happier and allows Idina Menzel to sing even louder and puts more power into the words. Disney songs almost always make it so that they are packed with rhymes. Whether they are slant rhymes or not or if they are internal rhymes or end rhymes the whole song is rhyming so that they are catchy, easier to remember, and pleasing to the ears of people of all ages.

Reading Log

50 mins reading in class Maximum Ride for the week

1 hr 20 mins Maximum Ride on Friday after school (I had to wait around a while)