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Post by Archagon on Jun 7, 2004 0:44:11 GMT -5
Today, I took notice of somebody saying, "His songs are words dressed in fire." Another person might have heard this and disregared it as a simple example of creative language, but I asked myself "Why?" and went on a small journey to discover the context of such phrases.
The main question of this internal seminar was, "When should 'His songs are dressed in fire' be used and when should 'His songs are words dressed in fire'?"
Before revealing my opinions, I would like to take a moment and see what others think, for my statement prematurely revealed might give others tunnel vision.
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Post by caffeineberry on Jun 7, 2004 23:42:07 GMT -5
Wow, you overhear intellectual conversations.
*thinks*
Well the obvious one would be, if the music that was being talked about was instrumental then you'd say "His songs are dressed in fire". And if it was the lyrics that drenched said song in fire, then you'd say "His songs are words dressed in fire."
Other than that, I'm not coming up with anything significant enough to give an english teacher night terrors over...
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Post by Archagon on Jun 8, 2004 0:04:10 GMT -5
My thoughts on this are as follows:
If the "song" is dressed in fire, then the piece is firey only in its aura.
If the "words" are dressed in fire, however, each word of the song is individually packed with its own flame, giving the combined mass an internal fire instead of simply a perimitral one.
It's like our (and I know this is probably the most bizzare comparison for this that one can think of) small intestines - rather than being one continuous tube, they are folded and shriveled, giving them more area and, consequently, more efficiency.
A song is an simple blob, but words are smaller and give the song more mass; thus, when said words are lit, the song lights up brighter than it would normally.
By this logic, one would think that "letters" might prove to be more effective as a subunit; this is not the case, however, because a song cannot be divided up that far and still remain a song. If the highest entity were "word", "letters" may be appropriate, but not for anything higher up in the heirarchy.
/confusion
But your idea is interesting as well. I had not seen it in that light.
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Post by Arachis on Jun 8, 2004 0:55:47 GMT -5
Personally, when I read it, I saw that the song which is only words dressed in fire, is not really firey at all. It is just plain words that are dressed in fire, but do not, as a whole, make up a good/firey song. Where as a song dressed in fire, would be completely firey and the whole would be passionate rather than each word.
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