Them Belly Full But We Hungry, Who The Cap Fit, The Heathen, Kaya, Ride Natty Ride, and Bad Card. Among others that the writer assumes to be firmly grounded are: Stir It Up,I Shot The Sheriff, Duppy Conqueror, Jamaican grounded metaphors deals with a number of Bob Marley’s songs which are built around metaphors thatĪre derived from Jamaican social life. Metaphors Rastafarianism, Bible, and mysticism. This thesis focuses on the songs that contain the Jamaican grounded metaphors patois or street language and local wisdom and spiritual grounded This might because of the idea that the richness of the wisdom dwells in the center of the peasants where the oral
Bob Marley tends to sing and explore more in Jamaicanĭialect than official Standard English. Through this literariness the lyrics talk about daily life and the forces of political life. They are filled with careful literary style mainly metaphor and The careful and conscious words choice facilitates Bob Marley’s poetics and rhetorics in giving his commentary upon social and politicalīob Marley’s lyrics are always quite literary than just spontaneous and impressionistic. Bob Marley lyrics are purposefully composed based on the concept RastaĪnd reggae philosophy. The examples of the third andįourth category are downpress and I and I which have been discussed previously. The term Jah is a shortened name of Jehovah which comes from the Hebrew word for God, Yahweh. The examples of second category are Rastafari, the original name of EthiopianĮmperror, Haile Selassie. The examples of first category are the concepts of BabylonĪnd Zion as can be seen in Bob Marley’s Babylon System and Jammin. While the fourth is I-words as what has been discussed before. More consistent with progressive thinking. Playing on sound and words’ structure is viewed as an attempt to make them more logical or Manipulation of language is one of the primary elements in Rasta talk. Rasta views Africa as a sacred and significant place, therefore reference to it frequently occur in their speech.
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