Won T Get Fooled Again Poem Analysis

Stories tell of a journey or an adventure, rules tell people what to do, songs are used to relate ideas and evoke emotion. Thoreau and Emerson believe that we should live as our own person and justify our own path through life, whether it be to success or to failure, experience is what is best for us as people. There can be many connections drawn between the band The Who and Thoreau and Emerson; whether it be in their lyrics or the members themselves. The most notable relation that can be drawn between the band The Who and Thoreau are the lyrics of their songs. In one of their songs, “Won’t Get Fooled Again”, one line says, “The change, it had come / We knew it all along”. Thoreau believes in change and that people should enact that change. In this lyric The Who express that the change was going to happen and there just need to be some kind of catalyst to set of the reaction. This could also relate to Emerson’s viewpoint: people need to stray away from the ways of the past, make changes on their own, and be innovators themselves. Another line says, “Smile and grins at the change all around”. This line goes along with the welcoming of change. In the line, “I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution / Take a bow for the new revolution.” “Constitution” as in new start and “revolution” as in a fight for change; each are calling for change to a previous way of life and a previous way of thinking. In the line, “Meet the new boss / Same as the old boss”, it seems now, after change has occurred, the government in power, or “the old boss” as described, is acting in the same way and treating their people with the same respect as before, when …show more content…
The Who and transcendentalism can be compared as quite similar and that is because of lyrics, the behavior, and style of the