Monday, May 18, 2026

"I Want to Fly"

I listened to Different Game yester-day and noticed a feature in "I Want to Fly" that's also present in the version on As Far As I Can See.  The line "And the days go so slow" exhibits assonance ("go so slow") and alliteration ("so slow"), and these features provide a sense of the line's meaning:  the retention of sounds from word to word illustrates a relative lack of change, and the multitude of similar sounds lends a sense of degree (for "so").