Tom Petty's Poem 'Into The Great Wide Open'
Imaging just graduating from high school, and moved to Hollywood to try and pursue a music career. This is what a character by the name of Eddie from Tom Petty’s song “Into the Great Wide Open” did. In this poem, Eddie has just finished high school and moves to Hollywood, gets a tattoo, a girlfriend, and a job as a bouncer at a nightclub. “Into the Great Wide Open,” a narrative poem by Tom Petty, that tells a story about a guy with a dream of hitting it big, using a shifting tone in a somewhat unrealistic fashion. The narrative pome, “Into the Great Wide Open” involves Eddie’s desires of being famous, and having great fortune. Eddie had just finished high school, and moved to Hollywood. When he got to Holly Wood, it wasn’t long until he found a girl, and got an apartment with her. He got a job as a bouncer at a nightclub, and his girlfriend also taught him to play guitar. He got a tattoo, and was very rebellious.
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The tone in the beginning of the song is quite optimistic. Eddie got a job as a bouncer, had a house, a girlfriend, life was going great for him. However, the song takes an unexpected turn and is also quite pessimistic near the end. Eddie made a record, but the A&R Man tells him he doesn’t hear a single. He also started to party a whole lot, and lost focus of what’s really important to him. Finally, Tom Petty’s “Into the Great Wide Open” was a somewhat unbelievable tale of Eddie’s fallen desires. “Into the Great Wide Open” by Tom Petty is somewhat unbelievable, because there are a lot of events taking place, and some don’t make sense within the th frames. Eddie graduates high school and leaves home to move to Hollywood. He meets a girl, gets an apartment with her, and then starts to learn guitar. After a short few months, he makes a record, and that record hits the charts. Shortly after that he starts partying with movie
The tone in the beginning of the song is quite optimistic. Eddie got a job as a bouncer, had a house, a girlfriend, life was going great for him. However, the song takes an unexpected turn and is also quite pessimistic near the end. Eddie made a record, but the A&R Man tells him he doesn’t hear a single. He also started to party a whole lot, and lost focus of what’s really important to him. Finally, Tom Petty’s “Into the Great Wide Open” was a somewhat unbelievable tale of Eddie’s fallen desires. “Into the Great Wide Open” by Tom Petty is somewhat unbelievable, because there are a lot of events taking place, and some don’t make sense within the th frames. Eddie graduates high school and leaves home to move to Hollywood. He meets a girl, gets an apartment with her, and then starts to learn guitar. After a short few months, he makes a record, and that record hits the charts. Shortly after that he starts partying with movie