A Complicated Kindness

shoot and Rain by James Taylor is a stress mentioned in A Complicated Kindness that Nomi drop bear on to easily. James Taylor was born March, twelfth 1948 in Boston, Massachusetts, although he was mainly raised in North Carolina. By age 14, Taylor was writing breeds, singing, and had learned to play the guitar and cello. In 1966, he travel to New York City to form a band with some of his friends and by the end of the year they were performing regularly at cafes. Unfortunately, while in New York, Taylor lost himself in medicate abuse for a time, and would later lead to the inspiration of some of his songs, including Fire and Rain. later on he was back on track with his life, he recorded a few demos and had them sent to Paul McCartney, whose label signed Taylor immediately. A few weeks later, he fell back into his old habits of drug abuse, and was hospitalized in Massachusetts. by and by his recovery, in 1970, Taylor released his single Fire and Rain which was inspired by his e xperiences with drug abuse, depression, the suicide of his friend Suzanne, and the institutional psychiatric treatments he received. James Taylor narration). While Travis is playing this song for Nomi, she is thinking about herself and her family. Nomi can relate this song to her life, because just like Taylor, she has lost loved ones, her mother, (who likely pull suicide like Taylors friend mentioned in the song) and her sister, abuses drugs, and has no combine in life. The song connects to both the accounts of endings and loss which are present in the novel.The line, Ive seen queer eld that I supposition would never end, connects to the theme of endings, which Nomi has problems with due to the incomplete ending of her own life. The part about sunny solar days probably made Nomi rec on the whole all the good days and memories she has of when her family was whole. She even begins to cry in the novel, during this line. Nomi can relate, But I perpetually thought that Id see y ou again, to how she always thought that Tash and Trudie qualification come back to see her, which in any case ties into the theme of loss, because Nomi lost 2 of the most important people in her life.A nonher line that Nomi can connect to is, Youve just got to see me done another day, which simply reflects on Nomis discontent with her life and the struggle she has just to get through each day. There are many poetic techniques incorporated into the song as well. Obviously, there is a lot of repetition due to the tell chorus and the line Ive seen fire and Ive seen rain. This line is also a metaphor for the different emotions Taylor, and Nomi, have felt. Fire could be seen as anger, passion, or possibly rage while rain is probably referring to unhappiness and despair.There is also a lot of rhyming in the song such as Ive seen sunny days that I thought would never end/ Ive seen lonely times when I could not find a friend, and Youve just got to see me through another day/ And I w ont make it any other way, as well as others, which makes the song flow more smoothly. The sound pull of assonance is used in the line, Sweet dreams and flying machines, because sweet, dreams, and machines, (although machines is not neighbouring) all have similar vowel sounds.Works CitedJames Taylor Biography. Bandbiographies.com. Retrieved 16 January 2013. http//www.bandbiographies.com/james_taylor/biography.htm