Norwegian Wood-271words

Norwegian Wood

I once had a girl
Or should I say she once had me
She showed me her room
Isn't it good Norwegian wood?

She asked me to stay
And she told me to sit anywhere
So I looked around
And I noticed there wasn't a chair

I sat on the rug biding my time
Drinking her wine
We talked until two and then she said
"It's time for bed"

She told me she worked
In the morning and started to laugh
I told her I didn't
And crawled off to sleep in the bath

And when I awoke I was alone
This bird had flown
So I lit a fire
Isn't it good Norwegian wood?

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Norwegian Wood is a song by Beatles. In the other hand, it is also a name of Japanese novel by a famous Japanese writer Murakami Haruki 村上春樹. Now I don’t want to describe how interest this book is or what success it achieved. I only express my feeling after reading this book. Norwegian Wood is an innovated song. Because John Lennon wrote it after Beatle returned English from India, he mixed sitar (a tradition instrument) into British rock. This song becomes a soul of novel, and the meaning of song evolves from melody into letter. I even don’t know how to introduce this book because it is as abstract as song. So, I only tell the truth without my personal opinions. ‘’The background of book was set at 1950 in Japanese. A man experienced the periods of Japanese and tried to define his value of life. He is as ordinary as other young man in the period but he slowly realized that something couldn’t be back anymore. After the funeral of his best friend, he recognized that death is no opposite of life; death is part of life. He lost his way in dark and deep forest of mind.’’ Murakami Haruki村上春樹 is good at describing the lost of modern people in concrete jungle. He wouldn’t like using exaggerated word or affected experience to write his work but he just plain, simple, and common word to interpret a philosophy. Norwegian Wood is his real experience in his life. He tried to record that the lost generation of Japanese in that period of Korean War.