It (most assuredly) is based on the fable of the fox and the crow. I think that the morale this song presents is one discouraging vanity. My main reasoning for this conclusion is the entire end paragraph where we see the bird, victorious over the fruit of his efforts, prideful to the point of losing everything... The fox didn't immediately take the "treat" from the bird, he just tricked him into losing it, which to me symbolizes the devil, not directly forcing us to sin, but temping us --- as remembered in the devil's tempting of Eve in the garden of Eden.... I think the line: "Every rook and jay in the Corvidae�s been raving about me too" is funny.
You're right about the song being based on the well know childrens' fable. However, I feel like a lot of people the morale of the story to be discouraging vanity or pride when i feel it most of all suggests that we are far too materialistic. The entire story revolves around people, and animals fighting over cookies and other treats which we all know are bad for us. The metaphor is that when it comes to our material possessions we squabble over them like a bunch of animals. Once the Crow is tricked into dropping the...
You're right about the song being based on the well know childrens' fable. However, I feel like a lot of people the morale of the story to be discouraging vanity or pride when i feel it most of all suggests that we are far too materialistic. The entire story revolves around people, and animals fighting over cookies and other treats which we all know are bad for us. The metaphor is that when it comes to our material possessions we squabble over them like a bunch of animals. Once the Crow is tricked into dropping the candy he see's the way in which the baker and the Fox fight over it and realizes how silly it is, so he flys away saying he's had some much candy ( things) in his life that it now makes up every part of him, for example he says he now has a brain made of brownies and molasses in his veins. He than says the line which i believe ties all this together, that if we let go of all our possessions we'd fly like a bird.
"When letting all attachments go, it's the only prayer we know" may it be so...
It (most assuredly) is based on the fable of the fox and the crow. I think that the morale this song presents is one discouraging vanity. My main reasoning for this conclusion is the entire end paragraph where we see the bird, victorious over the fruit of his efforts, prideful to the point of losing everything... The fox didn't immediately take the "treat" from the bird, he just tricked him into losing it, which to me symbolizes the devil, not directly forcing us to sin, but temping us --- as remembered in the devil's tempting of Eve in the garden of Eden.... I think the line: "Every rook and jay in the Corvidae�s been raving about me too" is funny.
You're right about the song being based on the well know childrens' fable. However, I feel like a lot of people the morale of the story to be discouraging vanity or pride when i feel it most of all suggests that we are far too materialistic. The entire story revolves around people, and animals fighting over cookies and other treats which we all know are bad for us. The metaphor is that when it comes to our material possessions we squabble over them like a bunch of animals. Once the Crow is tricked into dropping the...
You're right about the song being based on the well know childrens' fable. However, I feel like a lot of people the morale of the story to be discouraging vanity or pride when i feel it most of all suggests that we are far too materialistic. The entire story revolves around people, and animals fighting over cookies and other treats which we all know are bad for us. The metaphor is that when it comes to our material possessions we squabble over them like a bunch of animals. Once the Crow is tricked into dropping the candy he see's the way in which the baker and the Fox fight over it and realizes how silly it is, so he flys away saying he's had some much candy ( things) in his life that it now makes up every part of him, for example he says he now has a brain made of brownies and molasses in his veins. He than says the line which i believe ties all this together, that if we let go of all our possessions we'd fly like a bird.
"When letting all attachments go, it's the only prayer we know" may it be so...
amen my brother