Boulevard Of Broken Dreams Poem Analysis

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Loneliness is something that everybody has experienced at least once wishing someone was there with them to comfort or be with them but sometimes, no one ever comes so you become friends with it and it no longer bothers you. Isolation is something that comes to everyone and it doesn't bother them but rather welcome them to be their company because they have in a way become forgotten by everyone. In “Boulevard Of Broken Dreams”, the man no longer longs to have a real company. He feels comfort in being alone and having to pass through life alone just wishing someday, maybe he will find someone that cares for him. In Green Day’s song, “Boulevard Of Broken Dreams” the author uses imagery, personification, and tone to prove that Loneliness is being forgotten. The first way the author establishes the theme in the song is by imagery. He feels lonely and that only contributes toward the fact that he no longer feels welcomed. He proves this by stating, “I walk a lonely road, the only road that I have ever known”. (L1-2). He knows that nobody is by his side going through the same as …show more content…
Undesired and thrown away, he expresses, “I walk alone, I walk alone”. (L9-10). This only adds to the fact that he is trying to emphasize how under minded everybody is to him. He feels belittled by everybody so he diverts his way to another path that he acknowledges is empty. It is relevant because although everybody surrounds him, he knows he is forgotten so he might as well not bother anymore. To add on, it also goes on by stating, “check my vital signs to know I'm still alive and I walk alone”. (L25-26). Loneliness just makes him more depressed by the fact that nobody has discovered him yet. He notices that nobody senses his existence. Being so alone has only brought him to feel as if he isn’t alive anymore but only his ‘vital signs’ such as his breathing and heartbeat assure him that he still