[Milton-L] Even more ug teaching for Rich DuRocher

[Angelica Duran]

Hello, there,

Below are the lyrics to ³Come fly with me.² Apologies for not cleaning up
the download but I wanted to answer the question before leaving for Spring
Break soon, and I am trying to finish up some projects before leaving (!).
As you can see, the speaker is trying to seduce, that is inviting a beloved;
he is offering implicit and explicit gifts, as does Marlowe¹s speaker in
³Passionate Shepherd² (and incidentally, like the gold buckles and amber
studs of Marlowe¹s poems, the ones in ³Come fly with me² indicate
socio-economic comfort); and it shifts the stakes ‹ in this case ups the
stakes -- as it progresses.  With the last stanza, we are left in a similar
tension as with Marlowe¹s poem of wondering ³will the beloved accept or
reject?!² In this case, the acceptance or rejection is to the implicit
proposal of marriage.

Many thanks for asking.
 
Adios,

Angelica Duran
Associate Professor
English and Comparative Literature
Purdue University
500 Oval Drive
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
USA
(765) 496-3957
<duran0 at purdue.edu>
<http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/directory/?personid=80>
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Come fly with me, lets fly lets fly away
If you can use, some exotic booze
Theres a bar in far bombay
Come fly with me, well fly well fly away

Come fly with me, lets float down to Peru
In lama land, there¹s a one man band
And hell toot his flute for you
Come fly with me, well float down in the blue

Once I get you up there, where the air is rarefied
Well just glide, starry eyed
Once I get you up there, Ill be holding you so near
You may here, angels cheer - because were together

Weather wise its such a lovely day
You just say the words, and well beat the birds
Down to acapulco bay
Its perfect, for a flying honeymoon - they say
Come fly with me, well fly well fly away




> From: Jeremy Solomons <jcsolomons at rcn.com>
> Reply-To: John Milton Discussion List <milton-l at lists.richmond.edu>
> Date: Thu,  6 Mar 2008 09:48:03 -0500 (EST)
> To: John Milton Discussion List <milton-l at lists.richmond.edu>
> Subject: RE: [Milton-L] Even more ug teaching for Rich DuRocher
> 
> I agree that it's a wondeful song, b ut how does it fit this sequence?
> 
> ---- Original message ----
>> Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 13:44:32 -0500
>> From: "Berglund, Lisa" <BERGLUL at buffalostate.edu>
>> Subject: RE: [Milton-L] Even more ug teaching for Rich DuRocher
>> To: "John Milton Discussion List" <milton-l at lists.richmond.edu>
>> 
>>   One superb modern seduction song is "Have some
>>   Madeira, m'dear" (Flanders & Swann).
>> 
>>    
>> 
>>   Lisa Berglund, Ph.D.
>>   Associate Chair, English Department
>>   Buffalo State College, SUNY
>>   Executive Secretary, Dictionary Society of North
>>   America
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> Yours
> 
> Jeremy Solomons
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