The song I’ve decided to analyze Gillian Welch - Dark Turn Of Mind. Reading the lyrics, I can see euphony, an example being “don't all the night birds sing sweetly?” I was also to identify some simile, one line uses simile by saying “And leave me if I'm feeling too lonely / full as the fruit on the vine.” Reading the lyrics, I could also find imagery within the song for instance when Gillian Welch wrote, “you know some girls are bright as the morning.” The structure of the song is also set in stanzas, with each stanza break a different moment happens.
Interpreting the song, I see some contrast between a girl “as bright as sunlight” to a girl with “a dark turn of mind.” The song is seemingly directed towards a partner in a relationship. The singer of the son was apparently hurt in the past by possibly a former partner and threatens to turn “dark” if the person hurts her. Welch likes to compare her sorrows or past loneliness to things that aren’t lonely and are surrounded by a lot. Welch also likes to mention a “dark turn of mind” and “girls that are bright as the morning”, this could possibly mean a girl who has been hurt and has changed for the worst, and a naïve innocent girl.
Kaya, I don't know the song you wrote about but these are some interesting comments and analysis. I do think the line about being "full as the fruit on the vine" also has great imagery. I can imagine being full like ripe fruit, interesting song.
ReplyDeleteYou definitely thought out-of-the-box in this annotation. I think that you noticed many things about this song that the average reader wouldn't have caught. Nice job, Kaya.
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