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Paul Simon: I Am A Rock

Paul Simon said that the person or people in his poem were sick of
society, and wanted to be isolated away from society. He represents this by
saying that they want to be like a rock, or like an island. They wanted to be
isolated away from society.

The poem talks about people being sick of society, and want to be
isolated from it. Even in the first line, he made an analogy between December
being dark and dingy, by saying "A winter's day - in a deep and dark December."
The month of December is usually likened to being cold, dark, and 'dangerous'.
He also says that it is a lonely December in the second line where he says "I am
alone gazing from my window to the street below" he feels ...

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he says "I have no need of
friendship - friendship causes pain, It's laughter and loving I disdain." He
said that he doesn't want friendship because it just causes pain, and that the
laughter and loving he hates or despises. He wants to be left alone, like it
says in the third stanza, "Hiding in my room, Safe within my tomb."

He wanted to be shielded from society. In the first line of the third
stanza, he says "I have my books and my poetry to protect me, I am shielded in
my armour" He used the books as a type of shield, to shield him from outside
things that can hurt him. All he needs are his books to keep him occupied away
from society, and isolated. Just like in the last stanza, "a rock feels no pain,
an island never cries."

He wants to be like a rock, and like an island. Rocks don't feel any
pain, therefore, if he was a rock, he wouldn't feel any pain. In the first line
of the fourth stanza, it says "And a rock feels no pain, " He wants to be like a
non-feeling ...

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Added: 5/28/2005 09:09:08 AM
Category: Music & Musicians
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 573
Pages: 3

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