| The Magnetic Fields – Come Back From San Francisco Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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So, since the moon doesnt need poetry except to be noticed and the wind doesnt need trees, except, well, to be noticed... The metaphor is that the missing person doesnt need the singer at all except that the singer kind of tells people about the missing person. Ya? Otherwise it is a meaningless metaphor which makes me sad because I like the song so! |
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| Bright Eyes – Jetsabel Removes the Undesireables Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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You guys are all idiots. You've said nothing interpreting the poem. Conor wouldn't care what you've said because none of you haev done any evaluation of the words or what they might mean. A quick explication (quiz style): Literal Level: His brother tries to make things fit perfectly, mathematically. He instead looks at what already is there and tries to follow it. A woman apparently left him in order to forget his aging face. A girl named Jetsabel begins taking care of him. He feels trapped. Life is ordered, as his brother would have it. Jetsabel reads him love poetry and takes care of him some more. He tells arrienette that the trees will die. He asks Jetsabel to memorialize him with flowers. Then he references Jetsabel's love poem. Interpretation: He contrasts himself following natural ways with his brother forcing nature into a mold. He comments that everyone forces nature into such a mold in society. He wants to be memorialized with flowers (a more natural thing.) This is interesting because he associates nature with thigns that will inevitably die (as the trees) but still is the only thing capable of being really beuaitful. Weather is important. The snow is associated with death, the sun with health. In the fall Ariennette leaves. It is funny that he seems to be in lvoe with the girl who leaves him shortly before he dies. His death is inevitable, however, as it is indeed the autumn of his life. Jetsabel can not compare to the other girl because she is trying to force nature to fit her own standards (trying to cure him despite his coming winter.) The gate in the backyard is a wall preventing him from going backwards in time. He is frozen at his own age. Larger Themes: Since Poe is classified (by wikipedia!) as a romantic poet, we can look at this in a specific way. The contrast of love with pain shows that emotional stimulation is important. There is an impermanence that is inevitable. Conor thinks that what will happen should happen. Trying to change things is normal (his brother, supposedly an equal, does this very thing) but not admirable or worth it. Life leads ot death no matter what you do. Love is natural and therefore must come to an end. Someone respond? |
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