Comin' Thro The Rye

[MasterOuchy]

This poem is about holding a girl vertical while she vomits after drinking Canadian whiskey

[whineuproxstar]

im going to sit here for awhile and sing acoming through the rye.

[GlenHoban]

Cool! :-)

[ChEEzYn]

haha just like holden.

[K1ller30]

Holden: "If a body catch a body comin thro the rye"

Phoebe: "No, its, if a body meet a body comin thro the rye"

[ChEEzYn]

lol but isnt this song about sex and losing your innocence?

[GlenHoban]

I guess I was being a wee bit ironic in my comment for this piece! ;)

[Rikki0]

Well no. It's about a boy walking through the fields of rye where there are girls gleaning the fields. He is lamenting the fact that almost everyone else has a girlfriend while he does not, even though all the girls wink at him as he walks by. He is indeed shy and innocent, because even though the girls seem to like him he doesn't know how to get a girlfriend.

[Rikki0]

The sexes can be reversed depending on who is singing it. I believe Burns original poem was about a girl. But the meaning is the same.

[EleonorafromCassero]

Yes, the original poem is about a girl, but I red a different meaning between the lines: I think when she says she has no laddie, she means she has no fix boyfriend cause she secretly hangs out with many guys. And that's the reason why they smile at her, when she passes by.

[EleonorafromCassero]

I wrote this because she says "nane [laddie], THEY SAY, ha'e I".

It's this "they say" that changes it all, imho. ;)

[Rikki0]

I listened to the words again on some other sites Eleonor and what you say does make sense. That could well be the meaning Burns intended.

[EleonorafromCassero]

Well, I think it's nice that this poem can be given polisemantic interpretation... it makes it more interesting. ;)

[cinnamonbrandylite]

'but the meaning is the same'. twerp.

a boy who sleeps with all the girls is not, by and large considered identical with

a girl who sleeps with whichever boy she wants.

And that's not even the same thing to start with.

and to know who's singing the song, you have to pay attention to (actually pay attention to) ae fond kiss, and not just think 'ah, how pretty'.

She's leaving him to live on another planet

WITH HER HUSBAND.

that gotta suck, since she took Rabbie's children with her.

[Sshelly34213]

@ChEEzYn No it's not exactly about that, why do people think that? It's actually a folk song, Burns only wrote some of the lyrics. It was originally a children's song. That's probably why he used the song, he imagines children playing in a field of rye while he falls over and prevents them from plummeting themselves. It is a metaphor for Holden losing his innocence as he finally starts to see the world for what it is.

[sulumsphony66]

@Sshelly34213

ok sorry but im about to sound like a douchebag right now, normally i wouldnt do this but i love the catcher in the rye waay too much to let you get away with this: the metaphor is not about holden losing his innocence at all, it is about children keeping their innocence and holden being there making sure they dont fall off the cliff(corruption),

[Sshelly34213]

@sulumsphony66 I personally never liked The Catcher in the Rye (please don't hate me), but I fail to see the difference between what I said and what you added. You basically took what I said and went further with it.

Anyway, lol my main point was about this song being intended as a lighthearted song and not that parody about two people fucking in the Rye.

[sulumsphony66]

@Sshelly34213

oh ya sorry you really wouldnt get the difference unless you really loved the catcher in they rye, ill admit that. And ill try not to hate you for it(:

[Sshelly34213]

@sulumsphony66 No I get the "difference," I just didn't go as in depth with it as you did. You just took what I said and went further with it, I never said Holden didn't want to stop kids from losing their innocence, just that the character had lost his. That the song pertained to that. I mean, we're just getting totally off topic here, this is one reason why I didn't go deeper into it.

[Sshelly34213]

@sulumsphony66 My main point was that it was originally intended as a children's song and then it became perverted as time went on. Which I related to someone's comment about Catcher in the Rye.