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The Song Praying Poem Analysis

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Artist, Kesha, co-wrote and sang the song titled “Praying.” In the video that she created for the song she shows us, the audience, what she went through during her healing process from the sexual and mental violence she received. Through many methods, such as religious references, Kesha took us through her journey through ethos, logos, and pathos. Kesha decided to create a music video for the song Praying, in which she co-wrote with Ryan Lewis and Ben Abraham (Legaspi and Leight 2017). In this video, she begins with her laying in what looks like a homemade casket, and there are two men with pig heads on standing over her on either side. Along with an angel on the side of the wall, it seems as if she is having her own funeral, and as the …show more content…

To begin, some of the things that can be associated with ethos had something to do with the Bible. As the video is playing, there are many different references towards things that happened in the Bible, more specifically at the end of the video. There are short glimpses of a whale at the end of the video that gives Kesha the courage to stand on the ship wreckage that she was laying on (00:03:58-00:04:53). This scene from the video relates to a scripture in the Bible that states “Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights” (Jonah Chapter 1 KJV (King James Version) 17). This is an example of ethos because in her monologue she asks God what the lesson was in this whole situation “What is the lesson” (00:00:41). Of course, if anyone knows the story of Jonah you know that he was swallowed by a whale due, the Lord attempting to teach him a lesson by allowing the whale to swallow him. Kesha was asking God for validation that this situation happened, and wanted to know if there was a lesson in store from this just as God was trying to teach Jonah a lesson by allowing him to be swallowed by the whale.
Another biblical reference that is made in this video is at the end when she is walking on water looking into the sunlight is a reference a scripture that states “And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto

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