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| Simon and Garfunkel – America Lyrics
| 8 years ago
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@[Acey_Dearest:23960] Thanks. Somehow I never noticed the lack of rhyme, common in modern poetry but hardly in pop music, probably because it is so appropiate. If it did rhyme, that would have been jarring in a song about people trying (without success, at least so far) to find sense in a disjointed world.
IMO, the song is deliberately disjointed, jumping between the mundane (what could be more mundane than a bus?) and the cosmic (the moon), between the inner journey of the soul and the outer humdrum physical world (what could be more humdrum than the New Jersey Turnpike?). The disjointedness is a large part of the poetry. |
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