| The Decemberists – We Both Go Down Together Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I can't be the only person who noticed possible literary references, can I? I'm just thinking that perhaps the first stanza is a reference to "Dover Beach" by Arnold--the poem quoted in _Fahrenheit 451_. The theme is generally a despair at how everything in the world is mechanized, impersonal, and meaningless, and the only source of meaning/hope is from personal relationships, and even those disappoint. Miranda is the character from Shakespeare's "The Tempest" who says the famous line, "O brave new world!" Perhaps the "Miranda" here is similar in her innocent awe at the new world that the "wastrel" introduces to her. |
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