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Neutral Milk Hotel – “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” has a typical song subject, blown into proportions that have never been explained in quite this way. The song is written in first person; a narrator explaining his infatuation with a beautiful woman named Anna (who is only mentioned once in the entire song). Each stanza seems to tell a different reason why he loves her. Odd words, phrases and rhyme aid the writer in claiming that his love for his beautiful Anna will not end even after they die and “meet on a cloud.” The writer suggests that the love of beautiful Anna gives him a comfort and security that nothing else could ever give him. The narrator just seems to be in want of Anna, not being able to have her, he seems to just be content loving her the rest of his life without love in return. A theme repeated again and again is the importance of, the comfort of love to him, this is evident because the themes in each stanza written. He refers constantly on the theme of the sweetness of love on the first half of the stanza and on the second half how fast it can be gone. This form when broke down will show a pattern. For example the first, second and fifth stanzas all carry