From: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org (jangle-poets-digest) To: jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Subject: jangle-poets-digest V8 #69 Reply-To: jangle-poets@smoe.org Sender: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-jangle-poets-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk jangle-poets-digest Tuesday, November 21 2006 Volume 08 : Number 069 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [JP] "Great Big World" lyrics [curlygurl07@comcast.net (Sarah Dietze)] [JP] modern poetry in "Angel Fire" ["Rebecca Derry" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:41:27 +0000 From: curlygurl07@comcast.net (Sarah Dietze) Subject: [JP] "Great Big World" lyrics Does anyone have the lyrics for Great Big World off of the Peter Case tribute? Google wasn't any help - even after searching under Peter Case and TK. ~Sarah Check out the Kennedys' Official Home Page: http://www.KennedysMusic.com/ Fab photos, the Official tour diary, dashboard Buddha haiku, groovy merchandise...what more could you ask for? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 21:08:47 -0500 From: "Rebecca Derry" Subject: [JP] modern poetry in "Angel Fire" After taking a modern poetry class for only a few months, I am hearing so many more echoes in "Angel Fire." Okay, I knew that the Emily in "A Letter to Emily" is Emily Dickinson, "Just Like Henry David" honors our favourite Transcendentalist, "Feather in the Flame" recalls Icarus, and even Hemingway makes a guest appearance in "Angel Fire." We are clearly steeped in literature. But I, until now, totally missed the T.S. Eliot in "The Fire & The Rose" and the Langston Hughes in "Hey Vin." Maybe it's in the liner notes -- which I don't have with me at school -- and I forgot, but it took stumbling onto the relevant lines in the Norton Anthology and going "Wait, that's like The Kennedys' song!" to make the connection. In case anyone else is curious: "The fire and the rose, the fire and the rose, Oh, they flow through our stories and songs One destroys, the other one grows, Oh, the fire and the rose are one." - -The Kennedys, "The Fire and The Rose" "And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one." - -T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding" "The greatest thing I have learned Is to dig, and be dug in return." - -The Kennedys - -"My motto, As I lived and learn, Is: Dig And Be Dug In Return." - -Langston Hughes, "Motto" (from "Montage of a Dream Deferred") It makes me wonder about the other myriad references that I am surely missing. Perhaps I will stumble across more as I continue to read...it's always exciting. Hurrah for intertextuality. ~'becca "In the rooms the women come and go / Talking on their mobile phones" (Anais Mitchell -- another great tip of the hat to T.S. Eliot) Check out the Kennedys' Official Home Page: http://www.KennedysMusic.com/ Fab photos, the Official tour diary, dashboard Buddha haiku, groovy merchandise...what more could you ask for? ------------------------------ End of jangle-poets-digest V8 #69 *********************************