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Originally posted by teedee
stevie stating ,"its the poet that i am , this is how i write" you also have to remember when stevie writes in her journals sometimes she writes things down as a poem or in chants , then she goes back to them later on and puts them to ryme when working on her songs. .
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Compare the line "Now you're going home" to "Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin," and tell me which one is poetry.
Stevie has written some wonderful poetic lines, but for her to defend "Now you're going home" as beautiful poetry makes me question if she understands what poetry is. My sense is that she was digging her heels stubbornly because she didn't want to concede to her former lover.
Lindsey was right to point out the flaw but he was wrong in the solution. The better solution would have been to turn the whole song into first and second person. As for the verb tense, "fell for her" and "now you're going home," actually makes sense to me because it shows a time continuum.