Poetry has an interesting aspect: Significance must be interpreted. For example, the lyrics of “The Girl from Ipanema” by Getz and Gilbert: “Yes, he would give his heart gladly.” Actually, I don’t think that anyone would gladly give anyone else one of their most vital internal organs; but, we understand that by ‘heart’, the song writers meant that ‘he’ (whoever ‘he’ is) is attracted to “The Girl from Ipanema”, whom we hope is not really a ‘girl’, but rather a woman. I’m just saying, you know, that I hope she was a woman, even if “she just doesn’t see” when “he smiles.” You know what I mean? It also be okay if by a ‘girl’ what he meant was a ‘man’. But, somehow, I don’t think that is what the author or authors intended. What they meant was a ‘woman’. Still, it is possible that someone listening to the song could interpret ‘heart’ to mean something other than ‘love’, something other than “he would give his love gladly”; although, I do not see how anyone could “fall in love” simply by glancing at someone. One must start a conversation, at the very least. Surely, the author must have meant ‘attraction’ not ‘love’. Still, a listener might think that the word ‘heart’ means ‘deer’, as in ‘hart’ – that he would give the woman from Ipanema a pet deer, maybe, as a show of affection. Okay, so it’s not likely that someone will think that, but you see what I mean? Right?
Posted on: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 10:13:06 +0000
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