The Importance Of Change

“All we are is dust in the wind”-Kansas Whether you’re reading magazines, newspapers or just watching tv we are bombarded by advertisements. We find articles on weight loss, psychosocial activity and behavioral studies. We also find people vehemently voicing their opinion on global warming and how humans need to change and reduce their carbon emission. What is the connection? These are usually targeted to unhappy people who are looking for a change in their life/lifestyle. But can humans sincerely change without an extreme catalyst? The songs Eleanor Rigby by the Beatles, House of the Rising Sun by the Animals and the poem Richard Cory by Edwin Robinson suggest that we truly can’t. Since humans are a social, not only a political animal, …show more content…
This song tells of a boy, now a man, looking back on his past choices and regretting them; “And it 's been the ruin of many a poor boy, And God I know I 'm one.” His father was a drunk and a gambler, everything he didn’t want to be, yet he has his “foot on the train, goin ' back to New Orleans to wear that ball and chain.” He knows that he can’t change and his fate is predetermined to go back to a place he considers a prison. He warns the world to change before any more children are sucked into the House of the Rising Sun; “Oh mother tell your children, Not to do what I have done.” It has a simple rhyme scheme consisting of every second and fourth line out of a four line stanza rhyming. This gives it more of a somber and regretful tone. This tone seems to indicate that he tried to change his path but he was unsuccessful. Despite his knowledge that change is futile and hopeless, he is optimistic that his lack of change will almost inspire the next generation to change. House of the Rising Sun seems to imply that there is a measure of change, in which we can alter our lives. Thus it seems counterintuitive when listed with Eleanor Rigby and Richard Cory, but this is not the case. What House of the Rising