| Black Star – Respiration Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Nice one Odnups, I once made a presentation on the similarities between contemporary poetry and that of the beginning of the century. You'll find that Hart Crane's poem 'To Brooklyn Bridge'very much resembles these lyrics in both setting and content. They both refer to the intricate relations between nature (sometimes interchangeable with god), the city, and man, and the fading lines that differentiated them. The underlying message is the arrogance and indifference of man that projects its achievements as an elevation from man to 'god', while still all are subjected to the city. It's all a bit too complex to explain in a few lines, but metaphoricly captured rhetoric is very powerful in both 'poems'. "And Thee, across the harbor, silver-paced As though the sun took step of thee, yet left Some motion ever unspent in thy stride,-- Implicitly thy freedom staying thee!" http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1101.html |
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| Mos Def – New World Water Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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My comment originally was much longer but my pc crashed so: New world water is a reference to the term 'New World Order' (notice the similarity in pronounciation of water/order) as introduced by Woodrow Wilson. It also reflects upon the merits of United Nations, WTO, the Bretton Woods system and the subsequently proposed New International Economic Order (as proposed by developing countries). In essence it refers to the abuse of both human "capital" and natural resources as tradeable commodities, whose worths are determined by supply and demand rather than their 'intrinsic' values. This is also reflected in the proposal of mechanisms to counter carbon emissions under the Kyoto protocol. (Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_International_Economic_Order, it supports buckwilder's claim) |
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