The Simile Song

In October of 2012, Taylor Swift released her album Red. The album was about "tumultuous, crazy adventures in love and loss," as stated by Taylor herself. One of the songs on the album titled "Red" stuck to me because of Taylor's constant use of similes throughout the whole song, which is why I would consider this song as The Simile Song. Each simile makes a comparison about a hard break up with someone.

The first line of the song is "Loving him is like driving a new Maserati down a dead-end street/Faster than the wind, passionate as sin, ending so suddenly" and in this Taylor is comparing the idea of showing off this fancy car everyone dreams of driving on a street that ends to loving someone, meaning that she thought that her relationship was something so great but in the end, it wasn't worth the time. 

Another line, which appears most frequently in the song, is "Losing him was blue, like I’ve never known/Missing him was dark grey, all alone." This line literally shows what she was feeling after the breakup while using colors to describe her feelings about her situation.

"Fighting with him was like trying to solve a crossword and realizing there's no right answer" is another line Taylor uses. In this, she is using a simile to get across the point that every time they fought, it never went anywhere and there was no point to the arguments the relationship had. 

Constantly throughout her song, Taylor uses many similes to make comparisons about going through a tough breakup. She also uses other poetic devices to convey how she felt after the relationship was really over. This song was overall poetic because of all the similes and other types of comparisons Taylor made to show her experiences.