Comments on: Analysis: Eleanor Rigby by The Beatles http://www.thecultureclub.net/2009/12/03/analysis-eleanor-rigby-by-the-beatles/ literature, music, art, culture Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:44:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Frank http://www.thecultureclub.net/2009/12/03/analysis-eleanor-rigby-by-the-beatles/comment-page-1/#comment-414 Frank Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:25:17 +0000 http://www.thecultureclub.net/?p=632#comment-414 Excellent commentary. I love your reference to Eliot - the imagery of ER definitely brings "The Waste Land" to mind. Before I had actually seen the lyrics, I always thought Paul was singing, "died ALONE with her name". Which is really bleak stuff. I do agree with the other commentator though that the song serves more as a warning and a call to action than as a sad resignation to fate. Excellent commentary. I love your reference to Eliot – the imagery of ER definitely brings “The Waste Land” to mind. Before I had actually seen the lyrics, I always thought Paul was singing, “died ALONE with her name”. Which is really bleak stuff. I do agree with the other commentator though that the song serves more as a warning and a call to action than as a sad resignation to fate.

]]> By: Jenny May Forsyth http://www.thecultureclub.net/2009/12/03/analysis-eleanor-rigby-by-the-beatles/comment-page-1/#comment-411 Jenny May Forsyth Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:58:24 +0000 http://www.thecultureclub.net/?p=632#comment-411 A 'warning and a call' indeed, but alas, few are heeding the warning. A ‘warning and a call’ indeed, but alas, few are heeding the warning.

]]> By: ttucker23 http://www.thecultureclub.net/2009/12/03/analysis-eleanor-rigby-by-the-beatles/comment-page-1/#comment-399 ttucker23 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:09:57 +0000 http://www.thecultureclub.net/?p=632#comment-399 Culture Clubber Ian Smith asked me to post this comment: Tim, I like the post a lot, but I don’t subscribe to the view that ER is an entirely bleak and hopeless song. I think it’s an imprecation against isolation and withdrawal – doing things that “nobody cares” about, “wiping your hands” and keeping your face “in a jar by the door” are things that create barriers and loneliness. Relying on the church (“lives by the church”), which is dead, brings comfort to no-one as “no-one is saved”. The song is one of pity, but more one of warning and a call, more fully enunciated in the later songs on the album, to live a different way or risk ending up like Eleanor Rigby and Father McKenzie. Culture Clubber Ian Smith asked me to post this comment:

Tim, I like the post a lot, but I don’t subscribe to the view that ER is an entirely bleak and hopeless song. I think it’s an imprecation against isolation and withdrawal – doing things that “nobody cares” about, “wiping your hands” and keeping your face “in a jar by the door” are things that create barriers and loneliness. Relying on the church (“lives by the church”), which is dead, brings comfort to no-one as “no-one is saved”. The song is one of pity, but more one of warning and a call, more fully enunciated in the later songs on the album, to live a different way or risk ending up like Eleanor Rigby and Father McKenzie.

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