“The sky was the limit.” Tom Petty’s “Into the great wide open” is a narrative poem about eddy a 18 year that moved to hollywood making it in the music business then hit rock bottom. Tom Petty’s “Into the great wide open” is a realistic poem about Eddy’s rising and collapsing fame. using shifting tones and includes realistic events.
Tom Petty’s narrative poem is about a man named Eddy and his rise and fall in fame. In the beginning Eddy graduated high school and then immediately moved to hollywood and met a girl. Later on the both of them got an apartment together and Eddy got a job as a bouncer and learned how to play guitar. After that Eddy made a record that hit the charts , and with that he got an agent and roady.