Dust in the wind - Kansas

Link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0zSB2WEtwU

Lyrics:

I close my eyes, only for a moment, and the moment's gone
All my dreams pass before my eyes, a curiosity
Dust in the wind
All they are is dust in the wind

Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea
All we do crumbles to the ground though we refuse to see
Dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind 
Oh, ho, ho

Now, don't hang on, nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky
It slips away, and all your money won't another minute buy
Dust in the wind 
All we are is dust in the wind
All we are is dust in the wind
Dust in the wind
Everything is dust in the wind

Kansas’s “Dust in the Wind” reveals the whole "circle of life" concept. One day you will die and your body will break down into dust over time that is all that we are. This image is illustrated though the bands structure, connotation, and tone.

In “Dust in the Wind” connotation, (verb) emphasizes about how life ends where it begins. The entire song is a metaphor comparing life to dust. For example ““All we are is dust in the wind” draw a comparison between humanity and particles of dust blowing around. This serves to reinforce the eternal nature of mankind, creating a sense of no shape in the mind of the listener. The metaphor in the song can also reinforce other ideas too, such as the association of people with dust as a way to produce the phrase “ashes to ashes, dust to dust” in the mind of a listener, which is often spoken at a funeral.

In the beginning of the song it shows a great use of imagery. When the band writes, “ all my dreams pass before my eyes a curiosity, dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind.” After reading these first two stanzas the image you should begetting is someone dying. When someone dies, you realize all the things you didn’t get to do in your life. Your dreams you wish you could have done, you can no longer do, because you have no returned to a place where you came from, a place where you can no longer live or have a life. You are now dusting in the wind.

In the middle of the song the band states, “all we do, crumbles to the ground though we refuse to see, dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind.” Here you can see that the bands use of imagery reflects back to the theme. You go though life, but when you die, all you did crumbles back into the wind as nothing, which is what you started as. This clearly explains how life is there actually is a circle of life.  How everything is all connected. The band tries to explain in their lyrics that you started as just a grain in the dust, as a baby.

Towards the ending of the song, in the last stanza the band uses metaphors to makes the theme of the song more clear. In the lines “ dust in the wind, we are all dust on the wind, dust in the wind, EVERYTHING is dust in the wind” I think that the band is trying to say that, you start off what you end with. That even though you had a great life, when you die you has nothing, you are simply dust.

How many paragraphs? What exactly do we need to explain in each paragraph? Do we relate what we are explaining back to the theme in each paragraph?