It is really difficult for now to articulate..The lyrics have definitly something common with T.S Elliot or W.B Yeats. Yes, theye were "professional" poets, and Joanna is "not that intellectual" when we compare..But...but in my opinion both T.S Elliot or Yeats, or Walt Whitman and for me Newsom, opens the same gate...The gate of some forgotten memories of us, as individuals..These lyrics, with a very complex harmony of vocal and compisition, build a fragile palace of (at least my) childhood. But it is much more than being a nostalgic journey...
It is really difficult for now to articulate..The lyrics have definitly something common with T.S Elliot or W.B Yeats. Yes, theye were "professional" poets, and Joanna is "not that intellectual" when we compare..But...but in my opinion both T.S Elliot or Yeats, or Walt Whitman and for me Newsom, opens the same gate...The gate of some forgotten memories of us, as individuals..These lyrics, with a very complex harmony of vocal and compisition, build a fragile palace of (at least my) childhood. But it is much more than being a nostalgic journey...