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Katy Perry or Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson
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Ester Dean and the song´s producers Stargate and Sandy Vee.

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Song/Dance-Pop Song

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Katy Perry - Firework (Official Music Video)

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It was released by Capitol Records on October 26, 2010.
Recorded:

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The song is written in the dramatic mode. The singer addresses the audience with you. She uses encouraging words and tries to convince listeners that they are strong and that they should be optimistic about the future. The singer also tries to  increase the degree of self-determination and autonomy in people

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Increase people´s convidence and foster autonomy.

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textual features and their purpose: Metaphor

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textual features and their purpose: Metaphor

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1) Metaphor: This song is full of metaphors. I assume that the singer uses them to make the lyrics more vivid as in " Do you ever feel already buried deep, Six feet under screams but no one seems to hear a thing".: This metaphor creates an image of someone being stuck or not being able to change one´s life for the better . The usage of the metaphor makes these lines way more memorable and also expresses how hard it must be to expperience such emotions.

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Song by Nothing but Thieves

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Nothing But Thieves - Broken Machine (Stripped Version)

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-Written by: Alain Albert Boublil / Herbert Kretzmer (English lyrics)

-From: Les Miserables (the musical) by Claude-Michel Schönberg

-Written in 1985

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I couldn't find a reliable source but apparently all of them wrote it: Jim Irvin, Conor Mason, Julian Emery, Mikey Crossey, Dominic Craik, Joseph Lanbridge-Brown

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Textual features and their purpose: simile

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Textual features and their purpose: simile

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Katy Perry also makes use of a variety of similes as in "Do you ever feel like a plastic bag. Drifting through the wind, wanting to start again?" --> tries to communicate: People who feel lost in their lives and long for a fresh start.

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Audience: The text has two audiences. In the world of the play the audience are the people of Paris. In this case the purpose and is to rally them and inspire them to open their eyes.

The second audience of course it’s the audience watching the play in theaters or the person hearing the song. Here the purpose of the song is to entertain but also to introduce and inform the audience of the intentions and beliefs of the characters.

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recorded in London (Grand Cru) under the Label Ranch Studios, California, USA

published September 2017

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Some of you in this group know that I’m (Elif) a poetry slammer. Before I started to participate in poetry slams I watched a few videos on YouTube. There were only two slam poets that grabbed my attention, one of them was a German poet and another one was an American poet: Rudy Francisco. I wanted to analyze one of his texts since we never get the chance to do so in other classes and simply because I'm a big fan :)

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Writer/Poet: Rudy Francisco
Genre: Poem
Publishing Details: The text was published in a collection of Francisco's texts called "helium". It was published in 2017 by Button Poetry/ Pinecone Press in Minneapolis, USA.

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The narrator of the song refers to himself as a "broken machine" throughout the whole song. Even though, he is "broken" and some parts of his machinery are not functioning right, he learns to deal with it and accept it.

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Les Misérables | Do You Hear the People Sing?

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Textual features and their purpose: Repetition

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Textual features and their purpose: Repetition

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repetition of words belonging to the semantic field of illuminates (firework, light) adds a positive touch to the song as we usually associate light with positive concepts.
"You just gotta ignite the light
And let it shine"

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In this poem Rudy Francisco introduces himself to the reader. He shows that he is not perfect and really just an ordinary guy with a lot of talent but also flaws.

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Textual features and their purpose: Metaphor

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Textual features and their purpose: Metaphor

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Rudy is (in my opinion) the master of metaphors.

Let me give you two examples:

-“I’m clumsy. Yesterday I tripped over my self-esteem, landed on my pride and it shattered like an iPhone with a broken face.“

-“My hobbies include: editing my live story, hiding behind metaphors, and trying to convince my shadow that I’m someone worth following.“

Rudy is simply a genius when it comes to creating metaphors. It helps people to visualize abstract things but furthermore, reinforced everything that is being stated and makes it so much more emotional

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The song is a call for revolution the context of it is the june rebellion of 1832. It talks of the goals of the uprising.

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It's purpose is to give hope (as said by the lead singer in an interview).

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1)Repetition: The repetitions for example of "Will you" serves the purpose of repeatedly apelling to the audience directly.
2) Loaded language: Words such as  "martyr" that is used to describe the people of the revolution or "slaves" to describe the way that people were being treated accoring to the speaker is supposed to evoke an emotional, passionate response.
3) conflict: The conflict in this text is of the people against their current situation and their rulers (the system)

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The song is written in lyric mode.

1) Metaphor: The metaphor for the human mind and body as a broken  machine apllies to all the lyrics:

I'm just a broken machine
Though the record may spin
All my lights have gone dim

And nothing bothers me now
My wheels are my wheels

(I believe wheels could refer to flaws or traits, which he accepted as part of him)

2) Repetition: There are a lot of repetitions that emphasize the metaphor of the "broken machine" through their syntax:

Some things have started to fail
Some things have
Some

3) Conflict:
In Verse 1 he says that he is broken and therefor can't do anything, but in Verse 3 he says that he can do anything even tho he is broken (which is a contradiction in itself):

I'm just a broken machine
I can't do anything

Hey, I'm a broken machine
I can do anything

also he says he starts to dream but also refers to himself as a mechanical thing (that technically can't dream):

Now I start to dream
I'm a mechanical thing

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Textual features and their purpose: Personification 

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Textual features and their purpose: Personification 

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Another example showing how brilliant he is:

-“Sometimes, I wonder what my bedsheets say about me when I’m not around. I wonder what the curtains would do if they found out about all the things I’ve done behind their backs.“

I personally think that Rudy wants to say here is that he sometimes is insecure about what people think about him or if he always makes the right decisions.

By talking about inanimate objects as if they are actual people he again reinforces this.

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Textual features and their purpose: Metaphor/ Personification

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Textual features and their purpose: Metaphor/ Personification

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-“I don’t know much, but I do know this: Heaven is full of music, and God listens to my heartbeat on his iPod. It reminds him that we still got work to do.“

Here he again creates a clear picture in our heads (god listening to an iPod). Yet again he personifies (is that even a word?) god (something abstract that we can't see) and brings "him" closer to us by giving him an every-day item that many of us use. He also clearly conveys his picture of god to us namely: a man. He could have also said "her" like some other writers do. Yet again, I believe, that the majority of people think of god as a man because that's how we were raised.

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...I can't express enough how good I think Rudy's poems are.

Interestingly I can't explain why I like it so much or let's say how/why they are so special to me...that's why I think analyzing the text closer and thinking about it more will help me figure it out :)