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| Utada Hikaru – Kremlin Dusk Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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After listening to this song and reading Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" about 500 times, I would have to say this song is incredibly well-written. It makes great use of Edgar Allan Poe's metaphors and such to express a somewhat different idea. Allusions to Edgar Allen Poe that really jump out are "Now I'm sober and nevermore/Will the Raven come to bother me at home." "The Raven" is basically about a man who was sitting, thinking about Lenore, a dead woman who he loved, when the raven taps on his door. When he gets up to open the door and no one is there, he mutters Lenore's name and it echoes (though I'm not sure if the Raven was shouting back Lenore, or if it was just an echo). Then, throughout the poem, the man talks to the raven, which was perched on the bust above his door, only to receive the same repetitive response, "Nevermore!" A less obvious allusion that I noticed was, "I am a natural entertainer,/Aren't we all holding pieces of dying ember?" And to quote "The Raven," "Each dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor." In "The Raven," the dying embers are presented as what once was, memories of his lost (dead) love, Lenore (which is the name Poe actually uses). I think the door and window might be an allusion, too, but that requires more thinking. @_@ |
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| Utada Hikaru – Kremlin Dusk Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I like this song, but I've only been listening to it for about an hour. It looks like a big allusion to Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" (not hard to figure out since she does actually use his name). It's about a lost love (from reading a few lines in "The Raven", I would assume Lenore is a dead/lost love) and a longing to have him/her back, while really knowing it is impossible. =/ Gah, this is kinda deep. Now it's got me thinking, and I'm supposed to go to bed now. =_= |
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| Linkin Park – Don't Stay Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I understand that this song was likely written in reference to a relationship between two people, but whenever I listen to this song, it reminds me of school and a person who has had faith in our system of "education" for their entire life who has just come to realize that it is transforming them into a person they don't want to be. Even if not intended, it is an amazingly accurate description of what school is with nearly every line adding to that description. The first stanza gives a general look at why the person is saying this, that they have just come to the realization that school is trying to turn them into another normal person, and they do not want this. "Forget our memories/Forget our possibilities/What you were changing me into/Just give me myself back and/Don't stay" is shows that the person recognizes that the things that have been done and once seemed to be accomplishing something for them were actually changing them into a person that they do not want to be, and that person wants to be himself or herself again. "Sometimes I feel like I trusted you too well/Sometimes I just feel like screaming at myself" to me, shows the undeserving trust that the person had in our school system, following it religiously. Now, they have recognized that it is not accomplishing what it said it will and is just trying to turn them into a worker, made to follow the standards of society, and that person is angry and himself or herself for accepting it for so long. "I don't need you anymore/I don't want to be ignored/I don't need one more day/Of you wasting me away/With no apologies" shows a realization that our schools are forcing time to be wasted and extinguishing true thinking and individuality from any person it can without regret. Once again, before anyone responds telling me that they wrote this song about a relationship, I realize that; this is simply a way I like to interpret it. |
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