Sunday, May 16, 2021

"In My World"

I listened to Long Distance Voyager yester-day because it was the fortieth anniversary of its release, and I noticed that the structure of the line "How you turned it upside down, this world of mine" in "In My World" fits the sentiment there.  As far as the specific forms, I'd say this is a combination of inversion ("this world of mine" comes at the end) and pleonasm (the redundancy of "it").  A simpler way to express this thought is "How you turned this world of mine upside down," but the circuitousness of "How you turned it upside down, this world of mine" illustrates the disruption in the narrator's life.