Tuesday, March 17, 2020

"Anna Lee, the Healer"

Yester-day, I bought Wake the World: The Friends Sessions, one of the digital-only albums of session outtakes and alternate versions.  I listened to it a second time this morning and noticed a small feature in "Anna Lee, the Healer."  The lines "From the Himalayan mountainside up in Rishikesh / To a California beach house facin' towards the sea" contain a merism - a rhetorical device that gives a sense of breadth by naming two specific points along a range.