Modern myth and legend

[Jack Knave]

Why does it have to represent anything?

I used to think it was quite a sad song.

Why not just enjoy the story? Rather than analysing it all.

I like LOTR but don't need to interpret it like some do, I just enjoy the story 

Or what I think the story is 

Because it always does if it pulls on our emotional strings. As you said it is a sad song but why, if it is just about a unreal figure in the form of a dragon?

Don't know what LOTR is.

[Bubbles]

Because it always does if it pulls on our emotional strings. As you said it is a sad song but why, if it is just about a unreal figure in the form of a dragon?

Don't know what LOTR is.

Lord of the rings 

Interestingly, this wiki article mentions both my interpretation and Rhiannon's.

So maybe we are both right 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puff,_the_Magic_Dragon

I'm obviously not the only one that thinks he dies 

Although it says most people interpret it as Rhiannon does.

[Rhiannon]

I've understood the song the way I do since I was four or five. As a child I couldn't bear to listen to it.

[Bubbles]

I've understood the song the way I do since I was four or five. As a child I couldn't bear to listen to it.

Yes I know what you mean, although I saw it as sad for slightly different reasons 🌹

[Jack Knave]

Lord of the rings 

Interestingly, this wiki article mentions both my interpretation and Rhiannon's.

So maybe we are both right 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puff,_the_Magic_Dragon

I'm obviously not the only one that thinks he dies 

But as dragons aren't real what does dying signify?

[Bubbles]

But as dragons aren't real what does dying signify?

To me it was sad because the dragon lost his best friend, whether dragons existed or not in reality didn't have much bearing on it.

As a child ( and even as an adult  ) I'll cry at bambi 

That's a cartoon 

[Rhiannon]

Yes I know what you mean, although I saw it as sad for slightly different reasons 🌹

One of the lines is 'dragons live forever but not so little boys'. It's had new layers of poignancy added to it for me as I've had my own children. For such an apparently innocuous song there's a huge amount about loss in there, intentionally or otherwise.

[Bubbles]

One of the lines is 'dragons live forever but not so little boys'. It's had new layers of poignancy added to it for me as I've had my own children. For such an apparently innocuous song there's a huge amount about loss in there, intentionally or otherwise.

Yes, it's a popular song.

Even my husband remembers it well.

[Jack Knave]

To me it was sad because the dragon lost his best friend, whether dragons existed or not in reality didn't have much bearing on it.

As a child ( and even as an adult  ) I'll cry at bambi 

That's a cartoon 

Losing your best friend is a kind of dying inside and so symbolic of something in the song.

[Jack Knave]

One of the lines is 'dragons live forever but not so little boys'. It's had new layers of poignancy added to it for me as I've had my own children. For such an apparently innocuous song there's a huge amount about loss in there, intentionally or otherwise.

Symbolically dragons do live forever.