In the song Bowl of Oranges by Bright Eyes, what does the simile "Like a bowl of oranges Like a story told By the fault lines and the soil" Represent?
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'Then I think we would see the beauty. Then we would stand staring in awe at our still lives posed like a bowl of oranges, like a story told by the fault lines and the soil.' To take the meaning of the similies, one has to look at the whole poem. I think it the 'bowl of oranges' part is speaking about standing back for a moment from your life. Seeing the whole picture, the entire composition. Just as you can stand back from the kitchen counter and see the bowl of oranges, the arrangement. You have to look closely to see all of it, all of the beauty, in the new way you can see. Looking closely at fault lines will tell stories--to those who can read them. Just as farmers could tell stories from the soil.
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Bowl of oranges. A common still-life artists use when sketching. If you focus on the beauty of your life, then you'll know it was worth living.
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But if the world could remain within a frame Like a painting on a wall Then I think we'd see the beauty then We'd stand staring in awe At our still lives posed Like a bowl of oranges Like a story told By the fault-lines and the soil -He's saying that we should appreciate all of the work it took to come to a certain event. A fault-line is a crack in the earth that could have been caused by an earth quack, a terrifying event, and soil represents hundreds of years. Those little things represent many amazing events that people don't normally realize. If the world, your life, was able to be "put into a frame," you would be able to see some amazing events that happened in your life that you normally wouldn't have stopped to appreciate. The same goes for the bowl of oranges. It takes a long time and a lot of hard work and care to grow oranges which people don't normally realize. It's something people should stop and appreciate which is what the entire song is about-appreciating the little things in life.
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