Landslide By Stevie Nicks: Poem Analysis

People have times in their life when they are overworked, distressed, and they want to surrender to their goals and dreams. When people arrive at this soul-searching moment they may ask themselves if it is really worth pushing forward, or if they are investing more than they will gain. Ultimately, this is when they realize their worth, it’s where they will do their most growing and learning about themselves, others, and life in general. Life has a tendency to fling obstacles toward people. In the Song “Landslide” by Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks compares life to the mountains. “I took my love, I took it down / I climbed a mountain and I turned around / And I saw my reflection in the snow-covered hills / 'Till the landslide brought me down (Lines 1-4).” She uses descriptive elements to create a mood where the listener can feel her affliction and her loneliness. Presumably, The line “climbing a mountain” is referring to a hardship that the artist Nicks has faced. Strangely enough, everyone …show more content…
To a listener of this song, their is a possibility that they could relate to this part of the song because it states that Nicks has centered her life on someone else. For example, a person could connect that to a relationship with anyone. It could be that they are deciding whether or not to stay with the person they are dating or married to. In relationships, when a person gives their heart and soul to another, they begin to live in and through that person. Although the listener doesn't know exactly what Stevie Nicks was writing about, they can relate it to their own situation. Continuing on, the lyrics say “time makes you bolder” (Fleetwood Mac Line 11) meaning that time can give the confidence to finally do what is suitable for that person. From here on, she states that children and herself are growing older. She emphasized the increase of age to collect knowledge that she is