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!"
cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1101.html
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!" cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1101.html