Irony song analysis

In “Burden in My Hand”, Soundgarden uses serious understatement, serious irony, and a 1st person point of view to illustrate his sorrow and plea for forgiveness for killing his wife, “I shot my love today would you cry for me”.

            Soundgarden uses some serious understatement to ask for forgiveness of killing his wife. The main understatement that they use about a tumor in his head. “Just a tumor in my head” This is a serious understatement to illustrate how he just wants to be forgiven for murder. It’s also used to describe how he wants somebody to cry for him. Soundgarden also uses true irony.

          Serious irony is used specifically in the line “Follow me into the desert/ As thirsty as you are” This piece of irony shows how he doesn’t care about what happens anymore, he just wants to be forgiven. The next piece of irony is “So kill your health and kill yourself/ And kill everything you love/ And if you live you can fall to pieces” This is an example of how he just wants to be loved, and if not that you should just go away and die, and if you don’t, the irony, you should go and kill everything you love. The third thing is a 1st person point of view.

            A first person point of view is used in the “Burden in My Hand” to show how he personally want to be forgiven. “I shot my love today would you cry for me” Also they use “I lost my head again would you cry for me” They use these quotes to ask for someone to forgive them and to cry for them. They make the song more relatable and sad in these ways.