Let it Go!

Let it Go written by Kristen Anderson Lopzen and Robert Lopez

             performed by Idina Menzel 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moSFlvxnbgk 

The snow glows white on the mountain tonight
Not a footprint to be seen
A kingdom of isolation,
And it looks like I’m the Queen

The wind is howling like this swirling storm inside
Couldn’t keep it in, heaven knows I tried

Don’t let them in, don’t let them see
Be the good girl you always have to be
Conceal, don’t feel, don’t let them know
Well, now they know

Let it go, let it go
Can’t hold it back anymore
Let it go, let it go
Turn away and slam the door

I don’t care
What they’re going to say
Let the storm rage on,
The cold never bothered me anyway

It’s funny how some distance
Makes everything seem small
And the fears that once controlled me
Can’t get to me at all

It’s time to see what I can do
To test the limits and break through
No right, no wrong, no rules for me
I’m free

Let it go, let it go
I am one with the wind and sky
Let it go, let it go
You’ll never see me cry

Here I stand
And here I'll stay
Let the storm rage on

My power flurries through the air into the ground
My soul is spiraling in frozen fractals all around
And one thought crystallizes like an icy blast
I’m never going back,
The past is in the past

Let it go, let it go
And I'll rise like the break of dawn
Let it go, let it go
That perfect girl is gone

Here I stand
In the light of day
Let the storm rage on,
The cold never bothered me anyway

This song has been on replay on my iPod for the last few weeks. The second you assigned this I thought of Let it God. It's from the Disney movie, Frozen. In the context of the movie, Elsa, and queen, has accidentally frozen her kingdom. She runs away because she can't control her powers, and isolates herself in the mountains. She leaves society, just as Thoreau did, to isolate herself from the rest of the world and be completely on her own. 

Throughout the song she sings "the perfect girl is gone", "let the storm rage on", and "I don't care what they're going to say". She is leaving her old self behind. She used to have to conceal her powers and stay quiet, but now she is letting herself be free. She doesn't care what anyone else thinks, she's ignoring the "rules" of society.  She can definitely relate to Emerson's quote, "To be great is to be misunderstood". She has great powers and an infinite amount of potential, but after one mistake the village turns against her. She isn't evil, she is just misunderstood. She can also relate to Emerson's quote, "The world begins to the energetic". For her entire life she was stuck in her room, having to hide her powers from everyone. Once she is free she becomes alive. She can do whatever she wants, she owns the world.