Desperate:

an essay about the song “Desperado”

by Chris Bowdler

9th Grade English

Pine Point School

10/17/11

What were the Eagles talking about in the song, “Desperado”, specifically in the line “now it seems to me, some fine things have been laid upon your table but you only want the ones that you can’t get.” I think that this song is about someone with an addiction, an addiction to drugs. There are a lot of lines that create the impression of this topic. “Desperado”, is one of the greatest classic rock songs, but there is so much more that meets the eye.

“Now it seems to me, some fine things have been laid upon your table but you only want the ones that you can’t get,” this line from the song ,”Desperado”, makes me think, strangely of a person on drugs. “These things that are pleasin’ you can hurt you somehow,” this line really conjoins (fast) to someone on drugs. Drugs can make you feel so ecstatic(FAST) it is almost unreal. In the long run however, drugs can ruin your life and flip it upside down. “Your pain and your hunger, they’re driving you home.” This line makes me think of someone who is broke, hungry, and has nowhere to go. They have no one to turn to for help and are out on the streets In need of help. “Your prison is walking through this world all alone.” No one wants to get near them, and stays away from someone in need of help and absorbtion. They are stuck in a prison of the mind and they cannot get out no matter how hard they try. I wonder if this song was written for someone, I wonder if maybe it was a friend of Glen Fray’s, with a drug addiction.(Anaphora)

In the song “Desperado” I think that they are talking about someone talking his friend’s advice to heart. There are several different ways to look at this line, but I think that it is about a friend with a drug addiction. “You're losin' all your highs and lows ain’t it funny how the feeling goes away,” I think that this is saying that the friend has listened Glenn Frey when he says “Now it seems to me, some fine things have been laid upon your table but you only want the ones that you can't get.” He is getting help and losing his highs and the feeling of being addicted is slowly leaving him.  Desperado has broken free and is standing in the real world “it may be raining, but there’s a rainbow above [him].” If this song was a literary work, Desperado would be a textbook example of a round character.

What were the Eagles talking about in the song “Desperado”, specifically in the line “now it seems to me, some fine things have been laid upon your table but you only want the ones that you can’t get.” Did the Eagles mean for this song to be about gambling, or maybe drugs. If they didn’t mean for it to be about an addiction, what is this song about. . It is one of the greatest classic rock songs ever, but there is so much more that meets the eye. The Eagles spoke together and sung a great song and left there mark.(Polysyndeton)

Self-Assesment

One issue that I am continuing to work on in my writing is using alliteration and assonance to make my writing more graceful. One strong point I see in this piece of writing is the use of far more detailed sentences. I think one week point in this writing is my connection to the real world. For this essay I would give myself a B-.