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Hotel California Poem Analysis
The original Hotel California is not a place; it is a similarity for the west drift music industry, and its impact on the gifted performers who get themselves entrapped in its sparkling web. The stanza that incorporates, "Welcome to the Hotel California," is rehashed twice in the tune in distinctive settings. Another allegory utilized the inn to symbolize a trap from which one can never get away. These similitudes make the tune all the more charming. Expression as a rule alludes essentially to the decision of the words, their course of action, and the power. The song closes with word usage that makes a feeling of direness, and sadness and proceeds with the allegory of being caught. "Feast," is compared with, "monster," demonstrating the duality

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