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27 de oct. de 2010 · From EMOTIONS © 1967 Fontana Records
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Bright Lights of the City Lyrics. The darkening eyes you turn to me. Empties my body and sets it free. It helps my heels to leave the ground. The vantage you give won't keep me down....
Oh, cariño, todas las luces de la ciudad Oh, darling, all of the city lights Nunca brillan tanto como tus ojos Never shine as bright as your eyes Los cambiaría a todos por un minuto más I would trade them all for a minute more Pero el coche está afuera But the car's outside Y él me ha llamado dos veces And he's called me twice Pero tendrá ...
25 de ene. de 2017 · Provided to YouTube by The Orchard EnterprisesBright Lights Of The City · The Pretty ThingsEmotions℗ 2000 Snapper MusicReleased on: 2006-04-18Auto-generated ...
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- Analysis of The Bright Lights of Sarajevo
The poem begins with the speakeraddressing the hardships of life in Sarajevo. People have to wait in line for rations of gas and bread, never knowing if there will be enough. They take their belongings home, sometimes having to walk up eleven flights of stairs. Their lives are filled with struggle and uncertainty. They are at constant risk from fal...
‘The Bright Lights of Sarajevo’ by Tony Harrison is a single stanza poem that contains forty-six lines. These lines follow a very simple rhyme schemeof AABBCCDD, and so on, changing end sounds as Harrison saw fit. Harrison makes use of several other poetic techniques, these include anaphora, alliteration, enjambment and juxtaposition. The first, an...
Lines 1-11
In the first lines of ‘The Bright Lights of Sarajevo,’ the speaker begins by listing out the myriad of struggles the Sarajevan people endure on a day-to-day basis. The poet addresses the constant queuing, whether it is for “canisters of gas” or “meagre grams / of bread”. Everything must be allocated, one person at a time. Everyone has to wait to see what the ratio is going to be “each day” and if they’re going to get enough to eat. If the desperate wait for supplies isn’t enough, the Sarajeva...
Lines 12-20
In the next set of lines,the speaker describes what one might see if they were to examine the streets at this time of night. There are the “young…walking at a strollers pace”. Using a metaphor, he describes the young as moving slowly, un-rushed. At night, there are no lights to tell an onlooker whether the people in the street are “Muslim,” Serbian, or Croatian. “You,” the speaker adds, “can’t distinguish” one person from another. He uses bread, and the variety of words for it (“hjleb,” “hleb...
Lines 21-28
Harrison goes on, to describe in more detail what life is like at night in Sarajevo. The word “radar” is used in the twenty-first line in order to depict the “tone of voice” that comes out of the dark. When boy and girl “collide” she shows through “its signal she approves of his choice”. There is a process to these relationships that the speaker has tapped into and depicts for the reader. The two come together and using a “match or lighter to a cigarette” the boy looks into the girl’s eyes. T...
4 de feb. de 2015 · Bright lights, big cities. Urbanisation and the rise of the megacity. Feb 4th 2015, 16:20 BY THE DATA TEAM. Tweet. Urbanisation, 1950. GLOBAL CITY POPULATIONS* 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000...
Listen to Bright Lights Of The City on Spotify. The Pretty Things · Song · 1967.
