After reading the War of the Worlds, I have noticed that H.G. Wells has presented several themes that would not be alien to something that Lovecraft would compose. There's a deep anti-anthropocentric feeling in that the Martians came down to southern Great Britain and completely demolished civili...

Pressure pushing down on me Pressing down on you no man ask for Under pressure that brings a building down Splits a family in two Puts people on streets In what sense does pressure "put people on streets", and why does it do that? Is this referring to "the man on the street" and impl...

The chorus to Learning to Fly by Tom Petty is as follows: I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings Coming down is the hardest thing In what sense is the narrator "learning to fly" without wings? And why is "coming down" the hardest thing (given that there's no means to get "up into the ...

Why is the narrator of "Free fallin'" by Tom Petty free falling? Yeah I'm free, free fallin' Why is the narrator "free falling"? Does "free falling" imply some form of destructive freedom or loss of control?