Vincent! Now I Understand

wrote hi song as a tribute, Human Sphere Don McLean wa clearli impress by the man himself and so. after read a book about the life of the artist. He felt he understood the man and so wrote: "A nd now I understand...and now I think I know ..." He wa clearli touch by the soul of the artist and hi words, written in the first person, summar hi feelings: "I could have told you Vincent, the world wa never meant for on as beauti as you".

often known as "Starri Starri Night" wa on of the most popular song of the earli 1970s. It' lyric ar deep and meaning and blend togeth with an almost eeri and yet reflect music score,The beauti song by Don McLean call "Vincent". tell a stori about a man who live in an era and cultur that wa unabl to accept or understand him.

hi fame wa never realiz dure hi own lifetime. In fact,Vinc van Gogh is recogn todai as on of history' greatest artists. However. Vincent wa a much misunderstood and troubl man. He wa afflict by schizophrenia and depress and although he came from a wealthi family, thei did not accept or love him becaus of thi condition. Eventually, it got the better of him and he took hi own life.

which includ landscap - "sketch the tree and daffodil ... in colour on the snowi linen land" ... "morn field of amber grain" and not to forget the namesak paint after which the song wa name - The Starri Night. Hi famou paint "Sunflowers" receiv a mention in the song - "flame flower that brightli blaze". The artist also creat a number of self portrait which were not recogn dure hi lifetim and so were,Don McLean' song reveal that he wa deepli impress with the man. Much of the lyric describ variou paint of the artist. "hung in empti halls, frameless head on nameless walls". But hi observ of the plight of the poor - "rag men in rag clothes".... "weather face line in pain" - were hi passion messag to the privileg of hi day.

wa the "dark in my soul" of a torment and reject man. Compassion to the struggl of the poor,But contrast through all the beauti of nature. through the messag in hi work, he "tri to set them free". But alas, "thei did not listen, thei did not know how". Van Gogh wa unrecogn for hi work until after hi death.

there is a refer to Van Gogh' ultim suicide. The pain of depress and reject could not overcom the love he had for hi art. Be not complet insan but yet suffer recur emot pain,Finally. he "suffer for hi sanity". Van Gogh and hi art were like lover in a relationship, but "thei could not love you" and eventu "you took your life as lover often do".