Thursday, February 26, 2009

"Thinking of You" Analysis

The speaker is reminiscing and grieving over a lost love.  She spends her time with a new man, but she does not feel nearly as much for him as she did for her old lover.  Every time she is with her current boyfriend, all she can think about is how she wishes he was her old love.  The similes in this song demonstrate how happy her lost love made her.  She compares the way he made her feel to “an apple hanging from a tree,” “an Indian summer in the middle of winter,” and “a hard candy with a surprise center.”  These phrases make comparisons between the speaker's feelings for her lost love and life's sweet little moments, emphasizing that the relationship between the two felt just like a wonderful surprise.

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