Introduction to the song:

The Sound of Silence

The English name was the theme song of the American film The Graduate in 1967, which was the famous work of the folk song duo Paul Simon and Garfunkel in 196s. At the same time, paul simon and garfinkel became big stars.

Appreciation of songs:

The Sound of Silence has a slow melody and the lyrics are full of an illusion. Listening carefully, it seems to be telling a catharsis of youth and helplessness. At present, I seem to see an ignorant girl walking alone in a narrow, cold alley paved with pebbles. The noisy crowd is fading away behind her, and there is endless night ahead ... The song seems too deep if it belongs to folk songs, but it is too delicate if it oscillates with strong music. Musically, it creates a neutral body of class, which should be an important reason for its success.

Writing background:

This song was written in the 196s, which was an eventful autumn for the United States and experienced a series of turmoil and uneasiness. Internally, the awareness of anti-racial discrimination and civil rights is high; Carrying a heavy burden of "Vietnam War" abroad. At the time of domestic troubles and foreign invasion, President John F.Kennedy, the American spiritual leader, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963, which shocked the whole world and made the whole country mourn. The anti-violence and anti-racial discrimination led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, a black human rights leader, is in full swing, and the voice of anti-Vietnam War in China is also growing. The dream of the American people was shattered when President Kennedy fell! Under this time and space background, Paul

Simon, an American folk singer, wrote this well-known and thought-provoking song: The Sound Of

Silence, which was dedicated to the turbulent 196s.