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a juxtaposition of verb moods
by richibi
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a cardinal rule, the juxtaposition of two
things of the same sort will exponentially
increase the information gleaned of either
therefore the following
To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go
To right the unrightable wrong
To love pure and chaste from afar
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star
This is my quest, to follow that star
No matter how hopeless, no matter how far
To fight for the right
Without question or pause
To be willing to march
Into hell for a heavenly cause
And I know if I’ll only be true
To this glorious quest
That my heart will lay peaceful and calm
When I’m laid to my rest
And the world will be better for this
That one man scorned and covered with scars
Still strove with his last ounce of courage
To fight the unbeatable foe
To reach the unreachable star
Climb every mountain
Search high and low
Follow every byway
Every path you know
Climb every mountain
Ford every stream
Follow every rainbow
‘Till you find your dream
A dream that will need
All the love you can give
Every day of your life
For as long as you live
Climb every mountain
Ford every stream
Follow every rainbow
‘Till you find your dream
Climb every mountain
Ford every stream
Follow every rainbow
‘Till you find your dream
an initial similarity, they are both
inspirational
an initial divergence, the former is
in the infinitive mood, which is to
say that the lesson is for all time
in all places and for all people,
while the second is an imperative,
in other words, an exhortation,
something only pertaining to the
future, though the other conditions,
of place, and of person, can still
apply
note that the verse, in either, is in
the indicative, in keeping with, in
each, the altered air, the second,
and contrasting melody, which in
both, note, personalizes, makes
the recommendation actual, no
longer merely idealized, the
indicative is the only mood which
deals in facts, the other moods
are all imagined, dreamed
let me point out that in comparison
with songs in the indicative, love
songs and the like, the show tunes
above find their source in medieval
religious music, hymns, liturgical
stuff, and more recently,
comparatively, specifically in
England after the Protestant
Reformation with Handel’s both
church and ceremonial music
in which England went on to
specialize, incidentally, while other
forms of music there, the racier,
secular European stuff, had been
demonized, deemed sinful, and
thus proscribed
England would only get its mojo back
in the 1960s with the Beatles
R ! chard
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Tags: "Climb Every Mountain" from "The Sound of Music" :
"The Impossible Dream" - Jim Nabors :
"The Wanderer above a Sea of Fog" - Caspar David Friedrich :
Handel :
the Beatles :
the imperative mood :
the indicative mood :
the Protestant Reformation :
the infinitive mood
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