Stevie Nicks Transcendentalism

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This song is transcendentalistic, due to the fact it blurs nature and finding one's own spirituality and true being once again. Stevie Nicks is singing about finding herself and how others can find themselves if they just look in their “reflections” in nature; the snow covered hills. Towards the end of the song, she also mentions changing her ways, eventually becoming bolder since she is getting older and learning new things about herself everyday. She finds these numerous traits among herself, bettering herself as she goes by listening to nature surrounding her and her own thoughts; which she denied earlier, scared to change and become confident in herself and independent. However, at the ending of the song, she regains herself and gives advice

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