Alone on my soul

Being the guardian of my life,
Stay alive, live my own life, 
Never give up, without breaking down,
It is love our state? Our work?
I would like to be the Catcher in the Rye,
of my home.




Kids, kids, kids ,
Oh! that tenderness they have, 
I love how they are, like me.
Carpe Diem, live alone,
live with your heart,
live with your soul,
I would like to be the Catcher in the Rye,
on my own.




Phoebe my love, my sweetheart, 
I can´t live without you;
I need your help to be alive,
Still being me? I don´t realy know it,
What may I do? Be with you my sweet love,
my sweetheart




My live, my state, my mood;
Oh God! What may I do?
Being alone on my soul, that´s what I do...



                                          The Catcher of the forgetfulness

Poem Coming through the rye, Robert Burns

"Comin' Thro' the Rye" is a poem written in 1782 by Robert Burns (1759–1796). 

It is well known as a traditional children's song, with the words put to the melody of the Scottish MinstrelCommon' Frae The Town. This is a variant of the tune to which Auld Lang Syne is usually sung—in fact the melodic shape is practically the same, the difference lying in the tempo and rhythm.

The title of the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger comes from the poem's name. Holden Caulfield, the protagonist, misinterprets a part of this poem to mean "if a body catch a body" rather than "if a body meet a body." He keeps picturing children playing in a field of rye near the edge of a cliff, and him catching them when they start to fall off.


"Comin' Thro' the Rye" 

O, Jenny's a' weet, poor body,
Jenny's seldom dry:
She draigl't a' her petticoatie,
Comin thro' the rye!

Chorus:
Comin thro' the rye, poor body,
Comin thro' the rye,
She draigl't a' her petticoatie,
Comin thro' the rye!

Gin a body meet a body
Comin thro' the rye,
Gin a body kiss a body,
Need a body cry?

(chorus)

Gin a body meet a body
Comin thro' the glen
Gin a body kiss a body,
Need the warl' ken?

(chorus)

Gin a body meet a body
Comin thro' the grain;
Gin a body kiss a body,
The thing's a body's ain.

(chorus)

Ilka lassie has her laddie,
Nane, they say, ha’e I
Yet all the lads they smile on me,
When comin' thro' the rye.



They are many cover versions:

• The song was covered by Marian Anderson in 1944

• The song was covered by Bill Haley & His Comets in 1956 as ‘Rockin' Through The Rye’. 

• The song was covered by Alvin and the Chipmunks for their 1960 album Around the World with The Chipmunks.

• The song was covered by The Real McKenzies for their 2005 album "10,000 Shots."

Tenderness

I have found this poem about tenderness, I related with Holden and the Catcher in th Rye. How he protect the kids from the danger. Although he though in a moment of the novel when he was with Phoebe in the park in the carousel that if she fall down, he must not help her. Everybody have to fall down so then he or she could get up and carry on. We have to be resilient, to know how to overcome the adversities, but first of all we have to fall and pass the breaking down stage, if we need help to recover ask for it, that doesn´t mean that you are weak. We have to be able to found our way as Holden and continue with life, because we only have one and we have to live it, it´s worth it. Never think about leaving this life because you have a problem, solve it and carry on!

With tenderness by Poet on the Piano

Do you know?

Before I succumb to wandering skies,

I dream of an undimmed perspective

where we take our souls to the wind

and sketch intimacy shielding against

separated bases, damaged families.

We will deepen life.

You are my guardian

for when I think rapidly of your eyes,

I understand time has overruled;

let us not forget to count other ways.

I hold a disreputable age mark

but now I have truly loved on my own,

and I design paintings for us

in spare moments- unnoticed.

Breathing fond light,

I touch you with my heart,

choosing to live with your love

already moving in my remembrance.

I've been restricted for so long,

crushed emotions, holding me back;

so many follow your traces,

but not with the passion I color.

Our fate may never echo

what I have always desired;

all I want to die with is that

you realize my love for you,

my life speaks of sacrifice,

I never want to let you go.

You have already become

the quill of my intentions.

Robert Burns

A RED, RED ROSE by Robert Burns sung by Andy M. Stewart.

This poem was written by Robert Burns, whose poem" If a body meet a body coming through the rye" apears in the novel Catcher in the Rye. Although Holden thought it was " If a body catch a body coming through the rye" thats why he named him self the Catcher in the Rye.

Here you have another poem from this writer Robert Burns.

Rockettes

This painting from Georges Seurat it´s Le Chahut (1890)

It reminds me the Chapter 18 when Holden goes to Radio City and saw the Rockettes. He said " I came in ehn the goddam stage show was on. The Rockettes were kicking their heads off, the way they do when they´re all in line with their arms around each other´s waist. The audience applauded like mad, and some guy behind me kept saying to his wife ´You know what that is? That´s precision´ [...]  When they were all finished and started going out the boxes again, you could tell thet could hardly wait to get a cigarette or something. I saw it with Sally Hayes the year before, and she kept saying how beautiful it was, the costumes and all"

This are does Rockettes or it simed to be, to me they are, hope you see it to.

Six Degrees of Separation

In this film it´s shown a painting from Kandinsky:

The first parts of the painting represents the control and the second the caos. This it´s show in the novel The Catcher in the Rye, how Holden has no rute and how he developed into a person with clear ideas, beeing the Catcher in the Rye to save the kids. That evolution from the desesperation  of knowing who he was to be him self as he whant, was show in the Kandinsky painting, and also through the film Six degrees of separation.

Coming through the rye

I have found this song called Coming through the Rye by Charlie Spivak who was dubbed "The Sweetest Trumpet In The World" and his orchestra. It´s a traditional Scottish ballad.

I love songs from ancient times and I think we should  apreciate more our past, and have knowledge of the big singers or musicians in the world before we born.

Love at first sight

Painting form George Hendrik Breitner De Singelbrug bij de Paleisstraat in Amsterdam.

This painting reminds me about the novel Catcher in the Rye, and how Holden have a special relation with Sally. He told her his feeling, they will go to Vermont and  Massachusetts, although Sally refuses that offer. In the painting the women it´s a metaphor of love at first sight , cause you fall in love with her and you won´t see her again. 

I also related with the latin topic " tempus fugit" how past time. How Holden founds his vocation, beeing the Catcher in the Rye, saving the kids from the edge of the cliff.