(What's so Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding, by Elvis Costello
We have begun to learn to look for literary devices in songs that relate to our topic in our new project: making a statement through art. I thought of the song above immediately, but it doesn't have enough literary devices. Still, I thought that I would put this song on my Moral Compass page, because it relates to our current project in that it highlights the current state of the world and sends out an implicit plea for change, because I really like it, and because I can also connect it very strongly to my previous project. I would like to go ahead and take a step backwards to the Reinvention Exhibition project, in which we had to make a production about Romeo and Juliet set in the Rwandan Genocide. A part of that production was the soundtrack, and this song was actually featured at the end. It is incredibly relevant to the conflict between the Hutus and the Tutsis; the climax was a horrific genocide in which 800,000-1,000,000 people died in 100 days! The conflict is also still going on to this day, and one of the worst parts: the world turned its back on the genocide, and very few people are doing anything about it to this day. It's very horrifying and sad, and shows just how much our wicked world could use a little peace, love, and understanding.