Analyze BTS

I did this in video form  here  if you’d like to watch rather than read! There’s some images that go with the explanation but it’s nothing too fancy. The idea for this new series in which I examine some of BTS’s songs came to me while thinking about literary analysis and how oftentimes students of English/literature are asked to perform “a close read.” A close reading of a text is an analysis in which the writer reads and analyzes only what is available in the given text. No outside influences are taken into account; it’s just a close analysis of what we’re given on the page. It’s common to go line by line, but we also look at word use, metaphors and similes, tone, repetition, and many other literary devices. This sort of analysis also reminds me of my history training since research and synthesis are the entire basis of the field. Anyway, the idea came to me, and I wanted to give it a go. (Might as well use those college degrees, right?) I plan to use whatever text i...