Gill (and m) often used to say that of all my writings, the one’s in this area would be most helpful #, encouraging, uplifting and perhaps even “inspirational” to others…because it, the story was so unusual… and perhaps even unique (“so suddenly dramatic, SO devastating turning our entire lives upside down” as a family in another country […]
Keep looking for the best version of this song (when you “get a mo”, c)
from a Google search (my “filing system to rescue me from sheer utter chaos” – thanks “Big G”…and by that I mean God (far more than Google)… but then perhaps I should thank both!
RHYME SCHEME – The last words in the first two lines of each verse rhyme: it is a simple rhyming pattern that adds a cheerful tone to the song and makes it easier to remember
REPETITION – The phrase “And I think to myself what a wonderful world.” is repeated at the end of every verse (except one) to keep the song lighthearted and emphasize its message: the fact that even though there is much hatred and violence within the world, it is still beautiful. The title repeated throughout the song helps people remember it a lot easier.
IMAGERY – The imagery used to describe nature and friends. creates a vivid image of happiness and joy.
MESSAGE – The timeless message states that the wonders of nature and friendship are important. Even when everything seems lost and despairing, there is always hope for the future. The song was…
… And the people bowed and prayed To the neon god they made …
The oxymoron (=combination of words having opposite or very different meanings) in the title gives a good idea of incommunicability among people
The poem ‘The Sound of Silence’ consists of five irregular stanzas in which the poet describes the conflict between spiritual and material values in our modern world.
Hello darkness, my old friend I’ve come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence
The poem begins with an address to darkness. The narrator says that he has come to talk to it because a certain vision has planted its seeds in his brain while he was sleeping. The vision still remains there in the sound of silence.
“The Greatest Race: Living by (with) faith, hope and love is the highest podium any person can reach, God’s podium that anyone stand on.”
– c
“Having pursued the goals, the dreams set before us and run the race with persistence and endurance, after giving it all. Then one day standing on the summit of life, breathing in the pure sweet oxygen of achievement, totally satisfied in running the greatest race, the race of life one that ANYONE can run and win.”
“If a man is called to be a street-sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or
Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well
that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper
who did his job well.”
– Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.
God’s Orchestra: “I see life’s amazing journey and the various people with whom we come into contact (and whose lives touch us and the ones we touch) as an orchestra made up so many facets…with God as conductor…”
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