Rod Mckuen
I am writing a paper on “Thoughts of Capital Punishment” by Rod McKuen; I need a song that relates to the poem
It dosn’t need to be an exact match or anything, but just a song that has a similar meaning. I am aware that the poem is not a great poem and there are quite a few flaws in it, I will be pointing them out in my paper…but this is a hard one. Poetry is not my strongest subject.
Even Rod McKuen doesn’t think much of that poem: http://www.mckuen.com/flights/140800.htm (scroll down to the bottom of that page for his comments on it in response to another person assigned to do a paper on it.) Here’s another quote from McKuen on the poem (a couple of paragraphs down from the top of the page, in response to another student doing a paper on the poem): http://www.mckuen.com/flights/030599.htm
Boy, do I feel sorry for you…
At any rate, in terms of a song suggestion, gotta be either “Watership Down” by America (lyrics: http://www.accessbackstage.com/america/song/song062.htm ) or the better known “Bright Eyes” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright_Eyes_(Art_Garfunkel_song) (lyrics: http://aquamarine.nu/lyrics/af/watershipdown.php YouTube video clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MODq81_cDKI) by Mike Batts, from the same film, from the book of the same name.
Plenty of bunny bathos in the “Watership Down” links I’ve given you, and from the same era as McKuen’s chestnut. Lotsa luck.
ROD MCKUEN ~ If You Go Away ~
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Rock, Pretty Baby! Reigns as one of the first and best of the 50s rock films. Features 16 musical numbers by Rod McKuen, Henry Mancini, Bobby Troup and Sonny Burke… plus the acting talents of teen heartthrobs Sal Minero and John Saxon. The story deals with some of the typical troubles of growing up, like parental misunderstanding and the awakening of true love. John Saxon plays a high school senior who wants to be… |
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Peanuts – A Boy Named Charlie Brown $7.55 OUR STORY BEGINS WITH CHARLIE BROWN GEARING UP FOR HIS FIRSTPITCH OF THE BASEBALL SEASON – STOPPING MIDSTREAM BECAUSE HIS PITCHER’S MOUND IS FILLED WITH DANDELIONS. IT’S ONE ENCHANTINGSCENE AFTER ANOTHER IN THIS VERY SPECIAL MOVIE THAT BRINGS ALLTHE ‘PEANUTS’ CHARACTERS TO FUN-LOVING LIFE…. |
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