Talk:I Am a Rock

Original research in "Themes" section
The "Themes" section reads like an essay or original analysis of the song. Discussion of the song's themes is welcome, but should be based on analysis in published reliable sources. A sentiment like "One feels the speaker trying hard to believe in what he is saying by the repetition of these eight words" (which I have removed) is not appropriate for a Wikipedia article. Similar sentiments should be pruned, or cited to notable music critics and the like. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 08:53, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:SoundsSilence.jpg
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Basis in other works
I find it slightly perplexing that there's no reference on this page of the works that this song is based on, such as Donne (http://isu.indstate.edu/ilnprof/ENG451/ISLAND/index.html), who brought the phrase "No man is an island" into common usage. S&G were highly influenced by literature and poetry, I'd think those influences would be worthy of encyclopedic reference. Am I out of line on this? 129.237.90.22 (talk) 17:45, 25 February 2008

Not to mention the parody/allusion in the title of Frank Zappa's Help, I'm a Rock (released later that year). 66.193.18.4 (talk)

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Mangled sentence
The first sentence of the Writing section reads "The lyrics of the first verse reference during which the speaker is gazing out from his window to the snow below in the street." It seems to me that the subject of that sentence has got lost somewhere: what is it that the lyrics reference while the speaker is gazing out of his window? --Kay Dekker (talk) 18:53, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

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Trying to improve an article
My previous edit was identified by a bot as vandalism, I was trying to improve the article by replacing an unreliable source with a reliable, published source. I'll try a different approach. Instead of removing a reference, I'll just add a personnel list.--2601:153:881:3D60:B58F:17CC:C6C:D1CF (talk) 20:06, 4 February 2022 (UTC)