"Dark Turn of Mind" by Gillian Welch - Lyrics and Video
In “Dark Turn of Mind”, Gillian
Welch uses metaphors with diction and personification within a rhyme scheme to
express how ones thoughts, actions, and interpretations can change their
mindset. A use of enjambment also exemplifies her experiences and visuals of
how the perspective of one’s self is different from one another’s.
Gilliam Welch carries how these
thoughts can affect someone’s turn of mind through the techniques she chose. I
appreciate the personification with feelings, such as, the shadows calling out
to a lonely girl. A metaphorical example including personification from this
song would be how a girl ‘bright as the morning’ is ‘full as the fruit on a
vine’. A rhyme scheme is also visible throughout this song and provides flow with the words using the majority of end rhymes, with few internal rhymes. The connotation of 'dark' is not corresponding to the color, but the effect this color has creating mood.
Besides the example of a girl as
bright as the morning, Welch comes back on this case to represent that she
originally subjects a girl with a dark turn of mind, but it depends on where
you come from and interpret life. The diction really is interpretable, especially
in the line “and some girls are blessed with a dark turn of mind”. ‘Blessed’
brings up range for what it could mean and it seems to contradict on how Welch
expresses the meaning of a girl with a dark turn of mind.
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