Tuesday, February 24, 2015

What song can relate to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?

One good
possible song to relate to the deaths ofis "Arc of Time" by Bright Eyes. The song is
about death and also contains many images that relate to the play. The first four lines of the
first stanza refers to the uncertainty of time and plans because life ends so unexpectedly,
which captures the deaths ofandbecause, of course, they had planned to live happily ever after.
We can see the reference to time sabotaging plans in the lines:


You can make a plan
Carve it into stone
Like a feather
falling
It is still unknown. (1-4)

This passage
also contains an image that is reminiscent of the play, which is "feather." At the
beginning of the play, Romeo refers to the pain of love by calling it a "feather of
lead," meaning that love is something that makes your heart both feel light as a feather
and as heavy as lead due to the pain. Since both Romeo and Juliet decide to commit suicide
because they feel they can't live without each other, we see how the image from this song can
both relate to feelings of love in the play and their deaths.

This song also
refers to choices in the first stanza and how a person's choices amount to nothing due to death.
We see choices referred to in the lines, "You could choose the high / Or the lower
road" (7-8). We see the song argue that choices become meaningless due to death in the
lines:

As you curse or praise
All the things
you've done
...
And the music dies
As we pass over
On the
arc of time. (11-16)

Choices of course relate to Romeo's
and Juliet's deaths because they both could have made different choices to prevent their
deaths.

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