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788: The Carriage
| The Carriage |
 Title text: I learned from Achewood that since this poem is in ballad meter, it can be sung to the tune of Gilligan's Island. Since then, try as I might, I haven't ONCE been able to read it normally. |
Explanation
Emily Dickinson is a famous American poet, who wrote a poem called "Death", about the personification of Death kindly stopping for her to pick her up.
Grand Theft Auto (GTA) is a famous video game series, where the player frequently steals cars by grabbing their drivers and throwing them out of the car. The Y-button is used in GTA to enter (steal) or exit a vehicle.
In this alternate version of "Death", Emily is the protagonist in her own Grand Theft Auto spinoff game. Instead of Emily being carried off peacefully in Death's carriage, she violently carriage-jacks Death (as can be seen - she has pressed the Y-button) and takes over his carriage to use for her own purposes.
The title text refers to Randall learning from the web comic {{w|Achewood]] that a poem written in ballad meter can be sung to the tune of Gilligan's Island, a 1960s sitcom with a catchy intro song. Since then he has not been able to read the poem normally, he always begins to hum the tune... He does seem rather displeased with this.
Transcript
- [Death with his scythe is driving a horse-drawn carriage. The text is written in two frames above and below the carriage:]
- Because I could not stop for death
- He kindly stopped for me
- [A woman wearing her hair in a bun grabs Death by the arm and pulls him off the carriage. There is a circle with the letter Y in the lower left corner. The text above the carriage is in a frame.]
- The carriage held but just oursel-
- Death: Hey!
- Hands holding Death: Grab
- Circle: Y
- [The woman takes off in the carriage with the scythe, leaving Death behind on the ground in the dust from the carriage taking off.]
- Woman: Hyah!
- [The woman stands with her arms crossed, and Deaths scythe next to her. The first text above her is printed as the official logo and the text below is in a type of square brackets.]
- Grand Theft Auto
- Emily Dickinson Edition"
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- Do you mean Amazing Grace? 74.226.103.181 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
What is this Y-button? --JakubNarebski (talk) 16:38, 4 June 2013 (UTC)
- It is the button used to enter / exit a vehicle in GTA (XBOX versions) SioD (talk) 09:28, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
- You have to press a button to steal a car? -- Weatherlawyer (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
Is it Emily ion the comic? She is not depicted with a bun on wiki. And neither is she in most of the pics found on google. If someone makes an edition of GTA they would not necessarily use them selves as the protagonist? --Kynde (talk) 14:27, 4 April 2015 (UTC)
Can we please change 'Hair Bun Girl' to 'Emily Dickinson'? We all know that's who she's supposed to be. 108.162.218.35 13:41, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
Just rewrote the first quatrain with GTA wording: Because I could not stop for Death/ He kindly stopped for me/ I yanked him from the driver’s seat/ And got a carriage free. 108.162.220.221 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)
I sympathize fully with Randall. Since I learned (can't remember where) that this poem can be sung to "the Yellow Rose of Texas" I can't read it any other way either. 108.162.242.117 21:31, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
Does anyone else just see "crap crap crap ..." for the main page now? I just see pages of the one word over and over. 172.70.131.222 23:35, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
btw, this also works with loch lomond. New editor (talk) 02:55, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
My SO typically uses the tune of 'Yellow Rose of Texas' for this poem. 162.158.159.155 12:16, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
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