[help] starry night...

[spiritzavior]

Starry, Starry Night



Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and grey
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colours on the snowy linen land

Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen
They did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now

Starry, starry night
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds and violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
Colours changing hue
Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artists' loving hand

Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen
They did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now

For they could not love you
But still your love was true
And when no hope was left inside
On that starry, starry night
You took your life as lovers often do
But I could have told you Vincent
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you

Like the strangers that you've met
The ragged men in ragged clothes
The silver thorn of bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

Now I think I know
What you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen
They're not listening still
Perhaps they never will...


what is the language used in the poem(song) starry night??

also can you site the figure of speech in every line?if there exists

and what is the subject matter of the poem(song)??

:confused:

[jmalmin]

Very deep. Suicide.

[stlukesguild]

what is the language used in the poem(song) starry night??


Ummm... that would be English.:biggrin5: Now that I've answered the first question for you, I'll allow you to do the rest of your homework on your own.

:wave:

[Emil Miller]

Starry, Starry Night

and what is the subject matter of the poem(song)??confused:

Embarrassing rubbish for the ultra impressionable.

[kasie]

I m sure you know it is a song - Don McClean had a hit with it. The 'Vincent' in the lyrics refer to Vincent van Gogh and the title refers to one of his paintings.

Hope that helps - google the title, you'll find several sites with analysis to help you further.

[Emil Miller]

I m sure you know it is a song - Don McClean had a hit with it. The 'Vincent' in the lyrics refer to Vincent van Gogh and the title refers to one of his paintings.

Hope that helps - google the title, you'll find several sites with analysis to help you further.

Yes heard it some time ago and found embarrassingly arch.

i.e arch (adjective )
describes behaviour that is not serious and suggests you are behaving this way intentionally for the effect that it will have.

[Wilde woman]

I rather like the song, though I prefer the version that Josh Groban sang, rather than the original. I always thought it'd have been more effective, though, if there'd been an explicit reference to his severed ear. Or maybe I'm just morbid.

[OrphanPip]

I don't usually agree with Brian about anything. Nonetheless, I dislike the tendency of romanticizing suicide and idolizing the idea of the tortured artist. Really, what kind of genuine effect could Van Gogh's death have had on Don McLean.

On the other hand, it's probably a good example of the expression of the kind of Romantic myths that build up around some artist.