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What I've Done

The song expresses regret over past mistakes and a desire to move forward. It discusses facing one's actions and shortcomings, erasing the past, and starting anew. Forgiveness of oneself is central to overcoming regret and "washing away" wrongdoings. Figurative language like metaphors and personification are used to convey coming to terms with mistakes and seeking absolution.

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What I've Done

The song expresses regret over past mistakes and a desire to move forward. It discusses facing one's actions and shortcomings, erasing the past, and starting anew. Forgiveness of oneself is central to overcoming regret and "washing away" wrongdoings. Figurative language like metaphors and personification are used to convey coming to terms with mistakes and seeking absolution.

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What I’ve Done (Linkin

Park)
By Heksa Firman Maulana (13) XI MIPA 8
In this farewell
There's no blood, there's no alibi
What I've done
I'll face myself
L
'Cause I've drawn regret
From the truth of a thousand lies
So let mercy come and wash away
To cross out what I've become
Erase myself
Y
What I've done
I'll face myself
And let go of what I've done
For what I've done
R
To cross out what I've become
Erase myself
I start again
And whatever pain may come
I
And let go of what I've done
Put to rest
Today this ends
I'm forgiving
C
What you thought of me
While I clean this slate What I've done I'll face myself
With the hands of uncertainty To cross out what I've become
So let mercy come and wash away Erase myself And let go of what I've done
What I've done
(Na-na, na, na, na-na, na, na)
(Na-na, na, na, na-na, na, na)
Forgiving what I've done
Theme : Regret for having made a mistake
Point Of View : 1st person

Setting : Regret, sadness.

Figure of Speech :
• Erase myself : metaphore.
Act of forgeting with the word “erase”
• Put to rest what you thought of me : personification
Thought of me is made to do something like burying (put to rest)
• While I clean this slate : metaphore
Comparing about what happen in life like something to write (board)
• So let mercy come and wash away : personification
Make it seem unliving (mercy) could do something like come and wash.
Figure of Speech
• Erase myself : metaphore.
Act of forgeting with the word “erase”
• Put to rest what you thought of me : personification
Thought of me is made to do something like burying (put to rest)
• While I clean this slate : metaphore
Comparing about what happen in life like something to write (board)
• So let mercy come and wash away : personification
Make it seem unliving (mercy) could do something like come and wash.

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