{"id":28525,"date":"2023-10-08T20:37:17","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T18:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.leonardcohen.de\/?p=28525"},"modified":"2023-10-13T21:32:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T19:32:24","slug":"kw-41-2023-scrolling-through-my-archives-and-found-another-one-leonard-cohen-coverstory-on-french-music-magazine-rock-folk-1974","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/?p=28525","title":{"rendered":"KW-41-2023: Who By Fire &#8211; The meaning of the Song by Leonard Cohen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The title of the album itself evokes the cyclical nature of life, as new creatures are born and begin the journey everyone must embark on towards the end. \u201cWho By Fire\u201d is more direct, packing imagery of various demises into the song\u2019s tight 2:32 runtime. The title is a reference to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unetanneh_Tokef\">\u201cUn\u2019taneh Tokef Kedushat Hayom,\u201d<\/a> a Hebrew prayer chanted on Yom Kippur. The prayer is said to have been written by a Rabbi dying from his wounds after he was put to death for his unwillingness to convert.<\/p>\n<p>Where Un\u2019taneh details causes of death typical for Holy Texts (stoning, plague, flood), Cohen\u2019s bounces between times, asking \u201cwho by high ordeal\u201d \u2014 a form of trial in the medieval period such as trial by combat \u2014 before switching to modern parlance in the next stanza:<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.sevenponds.com\/expressive-music\/who-by-fire-by-leonard-cohen\">https:\/\/blog.sevenponds.com\/expressive-music\/who-by-fire-by-leonard-cohen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title of the album itself evokes the cyclical nature of life, as new creatures are born and begin the journey everyone must embark on towards the end. \u201cWho By Fire\u201d is more direct, packing imagery of various demises into the song\u2019s tight 2:32 runtime. The title is a reference to the \u201cUn\u2019taneh Tokef Kedushat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28525"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28543,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28525\/revisions\/28543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}