Song Analysis: One Tree Hill By Greg Carroll

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When I heard that we were going to explicate poems, I’m going, to be honest I wasn't happy. but when I heard that I could choose a song, that made me happy. I immediately knew I should choose One Tree Hill by U2, the only problem was, I already knew what the song was actually about. My dad has told me over and over again, It was added to the Joshua Tree album after a friend and crew member of U2, Greg Carroll, died in a motorcycle accident in Ireland, the name “One Tree Hill” is named after a volcanic Hill in New Zealand which is where they first met Greg Carroll. But without any further adieu lest check out the lyrics.

The first sentence is interesting because it reminds me of when a very cold blast of air is blowing at you and usually people turn away from the wind but this shows the person turning towards the cold blasting air. I would guess that the second line represents day being happiness and night being well darkness, so it shows happiness at darknesses knees. But then the next line the sun, the center of light, so bright that there's no darkness but the sun does leave scars and the scars carved so they'll never go away. When I think of a single tree on a hill I think of loneliness the moon only …show more content…

If you don't read too quickly you may think that the next line is talking about Hell, but I noticed that it could also be referred to a Free Fire Zone which is a combat zone in the military where there are no rules in the use of firepower. Then the next line says that in that place of darkness that poets ore punished for speaking their mind. According to Wikipedia, "Jara" was an allusion to Vector Java who was a Chilean poet whose poems were about love and world peace, and was tortured and murdered for doing so, which explained the next two lines. The last two lines could show that Jara's memory will run on till the world’s inevitable

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