AP Literature

Due: Friday, 2/17/17

In the song TIME, by Pink Floyd, Roger Waters writes the following lyrics:

Time

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day

Fritter and waste the hours in an off-hand way

Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town

Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain

You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today

And then one day you find ten years have got behind you

No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking

Racing around to come up behind you again

The sun is the same in a relative way, but you're older

Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Now read the poem ODE ON A GRECIAN URN by John Keats. Consider these lyrics and this verse in the context of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by JD Salinger. I’m leaving this kind of open-ended, but I want there to be a contrasting of ideas here – between the song, the poem, and the novel. Where do they intersect? What are they trying to say that is the same? Make sure that you’re making an argument more substantial than “there is a lot in common between x and y…” or something like that. Additionally, make sure that you’re giving me textual evidence for everything that you’re saying.