![]() (Just you wait)Īnother immigrant comin’ up from the bottom. Plannin’ for the future see him now as he stands onĤ0 The bow of a ship headed for a new land. Scammin’ for every book he can get his hands on, Tradin’ sugar cane and rum and all the things he can’t afford. Started workin’, clerkin’ for his late mother’s landlord, There would have been nothin’ left to do for someone less astute.ģ5 He woulda been dead or destitute without a cent of restitution. He started retreatin’ and readin’ every treatise on the shelf. Left him with nothin’ but ruined pride, something new inside,Ī voice saying, “Alex, you gotta fend for yourself.” Half-dead sittin’ in their own sick, the scent thick.Īnd Alex got better, but his mother went quick.ģ0 Moved in with a cousin, the cousin committed suicide, Two years later, see Alex and his mother bed-ridden When he was ten his father split, full of it, debt-ridden Get your education, don’t forget from whence you came,Ģ0 And the world is gonna know your name.Īnd there’s a million things I haven’t done, Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland. Well, the word got around, they said, “This kid is insane, man!” Our man saw his future drip, dripping down the drain.ġ5 Put a pencil to his temple, connected it to his brain,Īnd he wrote his first refrain, a testament to his pain. Then a hurricane came, and devastation reigned. ![]() The brother was ready to beg, steal, borrow, or barter. Inside, he was longing for something to be a part of. Got a lot farther by working a lot harderīy being a lot smarter, by being a self-starterīy fourteen, they placed him in charge of a trading charter.Īnd every day while slaves were being slaughtered and carted awayġ0 Across the waves, he struggled and kept his guard up. In squalor, grow up to be a hero and a scholar?ĥ The ten-dollar Founding Father without a father Spot in the Caribbean by Providence impoverished, How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whoreĪnd a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten I think that because the text’s primary format is as a stage musical and a soundtrack, reprinting the lyrics in full shouldn’t be a significant problem, but figuring out a readable system for noting different examples of literary devices will be… a challenge. The major challenge I’m considering with this project is how to annotate the lyrics themselves. Still, I’m not paid to do any of this stuff, so remember it’s a labor of love. I can’t make any guarantee of quality beyond the fact that I am an English teacher and I have more than passing familiarity with the Hamilton soundtrack. I’m assuming that most of the traffic I’m seeing is from people looking for examples of literary devices in Hamilton lyrics for their lesson plans, so why not offer up some more resources. I knew there were more devices that could have been addressed, but I limited myself just to the ones that the curriculum at my school focused on for tenth grade.Īnyway, I’ve been playing around with that idea and am thinking it might be possible to catalog the literary devices used in various songs in Hamilton. ![]() ![]() When I reflected on the post, I figured it was rather incomplete, since it only offered a few examples of a handful of literary devices in the musical Hamilton. I’m kind of dumbfounded over this sudden uptick in interest for a post that was kind of a throwaway exercise that I did because I was having fun with something I was really into at the time and what I was working on for my classes. For whatever reason, the internet gods have decided to bless me with a bunch of traffic for my post from last August, Hamilton and Literary Terms.
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