Roads Songs as Metaphors for Human Memory

Take Me Home, Country Road by John Denver portrays the inevitability of change. The speaker/writer clearly wants to remember his home the way it was when he left it in his youth. But inevitable changes have occurred because of the time spent away in a new location. It seems that Denver's perception is that the longer he spends away from home, the more risk there is of changes occurring to his birthplace, which he finds disorienting. The personification of the road, and the way the speaker addresses it as if it is an old friend, is the key to the emotive effect of this country classic. The perspective of the road in this song shows that the writer k

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the two. New England poet, Robert Frost, beautifully captured the essence of memory and the power of choice -- in his poem, The Road Not Taken. "Two roads diverged in a wood and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." The representation of life as a journey and memories - the intangible stuff of life -- as the road is an effective tool which has become somewhat disempowered through over-use by lyricists through the years. Source Lyrics.com http://www.lyrics.com> Accessed: 8th December, 2004. Take Me Home, Country Road Words and music by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert and John Denver Almost heaven, west virginia Blue ridge mountains Shenandoah river - Life is old there Older than the trees Younger than the mountains Growin' like a breeze Country roads, take me home To the place I belong West virginia, mountain momma Take me home, country roads All my memories gathered f½round her Miner's lady, stranger to blue water Dark and dusty, painted on the sky Misty taste of moonshine Teardrops in my eye Country roads, take me home To the place I belong West virginia, mountain momma Take me home, country roads I hea
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