Wide Awake a song by Katy Perry on her album 'Teenage Dreams' is one of the good examples to define connotations and denotations. The lyrics of this song contains many connotations and can be defined in either way.
Sign:
"I was born again, out of the lions denDenotation:
Don't have to pretend and its too late"
She has had a rebirth, and has come out from a lion's den.
Connotation:
1) She has come out and had a rebirth from what had been haunting her for years. She had some hard times in her life and has had the courage to come out of it. The lion's den acts as a signifier her for the haunted place which has been signified here.
2) Other connotations that prevails along with this song is that, Katy had been on drugs for so many years and now she has come out of her addiction over it and signifies being on drugs as entering lion's den.
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