Oar was formed in early 1996 by Marc Roberge and Chris Culos. They later recuirted Richard On and Benj Gershman and after high school the four of them moved to columbus ohio to attend Ohio state unversity. At first there hit songs like “crazy game of poker” and “city on down” were only spread by word of mouth and some small shows. After a while there exporsure to the public made them grow and their songs began to show up all over the billboard charts. The song I chose to look into closer is “crazy game of poker”.
The song “crazy game of poker” is littered with many literary devices throught out the the whole thing. The song itself, a crazy game of poker, is actually refeering to a metaphor about life and how a long crazy journey it is.The line “well then dude walks in black hat on top, what a mop” is a metaphor to this dude being a dirty long haired bum like looking guy. Another poetic device used is a hyperbole as portrayed in this line “I can barely see the bourbon drowning next to me”. This is a hyperbole because the bourbon cant actually drowned beside him. In my opinion this is a very good song and it really says what OAR is really about.