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Song Analysis: Africa by Toto

   The song I choose to analyze was Africa by Toto. The songs has a lot of techniques that it uses within the song. One technique the song uses is a simile in the line "As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti," this lyrics give life to the song because when you listen you here two things that you do not usually put together. This technique adds to the overall interpretation of the song because the song is kind of boring before this point but then you hear this simile and the song brightens and gives us a poetic verse. The effect this lyric has in the song is that is gives the song life and makes the song better. This technique added to my overall interpretation of the song because it made the song more interesting and made me want to research why they used this lyric and what poetic device it used.

     Another technique it uses in verse one is sibilance because it repeats and has the letter "s" a lot. This technique helped with my overall interpretation of the song because it made me see that this was not just a song Toto made but one they took time on and used poetic techniques within the song. This helped me interpret the song more by showing me that Toto wanted us to see that song had a deeper poetic meeting than most people see. The sibilance at this part in the song is right in the beginning so Toto hit us right in the beginning a poetic technique. Overall, the song Africa by Toto is a song full of poetic meaning and techniques that I would like to research more about.


Lyrics- https://genius.com/Toto-africa-lyrics. 

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