Tuesday, April 2, 2019

"Dawn Is a Feeling"

I listened to Days of Future Passed this morning and noticed a couple small things.

In "Dawn Is a Feeling," the phrase "far and near" in the line "In minds far and near, things are becoming clear with a meaning" is an example of a merism, a rhetorical device in which two distant points of a range are mentioned in order to refer to the entirety.  While the specific words here are "minds far and near," the sense is really "minds all over the place."