The songs “Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas)” written by Jimmy Rodgers and “Can the Circle Be Unbroken” by The Carter Family have many similarities as well as differences. Both songs talk about the sadness of losing someone. Also, both songs have some similarities such as the melody of the music and the voice of the singers. One difference between the songs is the type of people the singers’ loss. In the song “Can the Circle Be Unbroken”, the singer sings about the loss of her mother, but in “Blue Yodel No. 1 (T for Texas)”, the singer sings about the loss of a woman. In the song, “Can the Circle Be Unbroken” the singer talks about her mother passing away and going to heaven. She is missing her mother, but she knows that her mother is in a
In this song one can tell that the singer is very sad and depressed about many things that have happened in his life and the love ones that have passed away. When he sings this lyric “My sweetest friend…. I will let you down” you can tell that it is about how his loved ones have passed on and he let
Stanza three again shows doubtfulness about the mother’s love. We see how the mother locks her child in because she fears the modern world. She sees the world as dangers and especially fears men. Her fear of men is emphasized by the italics used. In the final line of the stanza, the mother puts her son on a plastic pot. This is somewhat symbolic of the consumeristic society i.e. manufactured and cheap.
Readers are able to connect with the notion of everlasting relationship between a mother and child. She tries to bring light to a dark situation. Mandy recalls old memories to her mother and makes her mother remember the goodness in her that appears to cleanse away the darkness from her allowing her to be set free. Jane Yolen makes it clear to readers that love overpowers fear that was provoked by the undead mother.
On the second stanza, the woman was haunted by the voices of her child in her mind. She said that under the circumstance she is right now, she has no choice but to have a abortion. Then she express her feeling and felt sorry about what she had done. “And your lives from your unfinished reach, If I stole your births and your names, Your straight baby tears and your games” (Gwendolyn Brooks) she show remorse that she stolen her child life and her child would get to experience the first tear and games. So now her baby already going through death.
At the outset of the lyric the speaker demonstrates a mother unable to overlook the emotional occasions, which have trapped her inwardly. We can see a sample of the storyteller confronting more than one tormenting memory of premature birth in the exact first line, "Premature births won't let you overlook"; took after by a notice in the first line of the second stanza, "… vo...
These lyrics send a message of how at first he was being someone who he wasn’t but then eventually found out who he actually was. He grew up living in a society where a person couldn’t be their own individual self and everything was done collectively. He never knew about individualism because of the fact he’s been in a collective environment. After learning about the Unmentionable Times and the forbidden word “I”, he knew at that moment who he really was. “I tried to be someone else/ I know now this is who I really am inside,” are two lines that can be used that momen...
She knows her son would not want her to be in this pain and dwell on something she cannot change which is why the author states “But soon afterwards, when the child had been buried, it appeared by night in the places where it had sat and played during its life, and if the mother wept, it wept also, and, when morning came, it disappeared.” The little boy is referred to as ‘it’ because he is only appearing in the mother’s mind as she reminisces all of the memories they shared. The mother eventually comes to an understanding with this terrible incident and at peace for herself and her little boy when the story reads “Then the mother gave her sorrow into God’s keeping, and bore it quietly and patiently, and the child came no more, but slept in its little bed beneath the earth.” She finally let go. Also, in the last quotation, this is showing that the mother now worships God above all and is putting her faith in him. As opposed to the beginning of the story where the author states “THERE was once a mother who
...rs that she never wanted to do. It is here that the reader notices that the forceful motivation that her mother performed was only a desperate attempt to save Tan from committing the same mistakes that her mother probably did before she came to America. Though, Tan never realizes this until the very end of the story when she is all grown up and her mother buys her a piano. The passing of this piano is a symbolic point in the book when Tan realizes that her mother only tried to help her all of these years. And closure is placed upon the tumultuous relationship between Tan and her mother while she plays the song “Perfectly Contented.”
... the child and other mothers in the refugee camp. It shows the love that the mother has for her almost dying child and it also implies that she is not willing to let the child lose his innocence by being taken away by death.
..., a loss that everyone can either sympathize or empathize. However, instead of focusing on the pain and heartbreak of not having a mother, the narrator instead takes strength in the fact that her mother is connected to nature. Although her mother is not physically in her life, her body has, instead, been buried in the ground like a seed. This brings the narrator solace because at least her mother’s essence will always be present as long as there are trees, grass, and animals.
Whenever someone mentions the word “mother”, one always tend to think of a very kind and caring figure who always whishes the best for her children. In the poem “Mother to Son” by Langston Huges, a mother is telling her son about the obstacles she had to overcome in order to get to the position she is in right now. There comes many moments in our life when we just want to give up and let fate handle everything. We face many difficulties that may not seem we can overcome but we should never give up right away. The mother in the poem is trying to convince her son to keep pushing and at the same time she is trying to set an example though her own past experience.
In the opening verse of the song, the speaker discusses the need to see her childhood home at least once more before moving on with her life. She shares with the current homeowner some of her experiences while growing up in the house. For instance, she says, “I know they say you can’t go home again, but I just had to come back one last time.” This shows that the speaker realizes that returning “home” is going to be a different experience than it was when she lived there, but she cannot resist the temptation of a final visit to the “house”. The speaker says that “Up those stairs in that little back bedroom, is where I did my homework and learned to play guitar. And I bet you didn’t know, under that live oak, my favorite dog is buried in the yard.” This indicates some of the significant memories the speaker has of her time in the house, such as honing her...
In conclusion, I found that both of these songs had a strong impact on my emotions. Not only did they impact me but they also told of story of hope, faith and belief
She talked about her son who was murdered in 1995. She told me “she wished she was more involved in her son’s life, and if she was he may still be here”. She told me that his father had left when her son was young; she believed if he had stuck around in her son’s life he may still be here (West).
The song accomplishes such a thing by taking the approach of a man who knows he is dying, and who takes a nice approach to it. Before the man dies and gets to experience the beauty of heaven, he explains to his loved ones that he doesn't want them to cry for him when he is gone but rather be happy for him. Images of different seasons of the year to explain the process of growing older. Images that depict the fading of light in a persons soul transforming into darkness. Images that the reader can perceive as vivid actions.