Proctor (author of The Savage Crown Series)įive Years is a chapbook that really talks to your soul and is an absolute must read for anyone.
Maybe he’s smiling now, after Five Years, knowing that we miss him. poems, a range of hues that her inspirator would have smiled at. There are touches of tenderness, nostalgia, darkness, cruelty, humour, joy in B.F.
These are not literal reinterpretations, of course, they are the author’s variations born from a poignant line plucked from the lyrics, like in Heroes, or a fugitive emotion, an unconscious tickle, as in We are the Dead, or a yearning for eternity, in Ashes to Ashes. The result is beautiful poetry accessible to all, Bowie fans or not.ī F Jones wraps her own poetic Sound & Vision around 25 songs chosen in David Bowie’s massive catalogue. These are not literal reinterpretations, of course, they are the author’s In this 25 poems, B F Jones borrows David Bowie's titles and revisits his themes and obsessions, as a way to honour his memory. B F Jones wraps her own poetic Sound & Vision around 25 songs chosen in David Bowie’s massive catalogue. The result is beautiful poetry accessible to all, Bowie fans or not. Conclusionīut the funny thing about it is that at the end of the day, “Five Years” may be classified as a love song regardless, because after all, the title does point to the fact that they’re “still” together after all this time. Also, as irritated as the vocalist may be, he doesn’t express any desire to terminate this relationship. And with all of that said, it should also be noted that the addressee may be a personification of Burnham’s fandom, as he did in fact go on a five-year hiatus earlier in his comedy career, before recently making a successful comeback.In this 25 poems, B F Jones borrows David Bowie's titles and revisits his themes and obsessions, as a way to honour his memory.
In the intro, Burnham also expresses what can be classified as a lack of support for his woman, and in the outro, we see that even other nuances of their association are also ticking him off. So it’s made more than clear throughout that the addressee is someone whom he’s tired of. Then in the third verse, he engages in some spazzing alluding to his partner’s feminist ways. What he puts forth, in a roundabout fashion, is that she should be consistent with her beliefs instead of cleaving to them only when it’s convenient.
That is to say that Bo gets upset when his lady ‘reaches over and takes one of his dumplings’, to the extent that he’s not letting the matter die until she repays him. To make a long story short, it would appear that Bo is committed alright. But at the same time he obviously has various issues with his lady, to the point that it can be deemed that he doesn’t appreciate or at least is fed up with her.įor instance, in the first verse, it is revealed that they have some type of beef due to the vocalist’s fe-latio preferences. Meanwhile the second verse is sorta reminiscent of that episode of Friends where Joey gets pissed off because his date ate some of his food. What we’re dealing with here is apparently the ‘five years anniversary’ between the vocalist and the addressee, his sweetheart.
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