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Raymond “Ray” Walter Traylor was a professional wrestler known for his performances in the WWF as the prison guard character the “Big Boss Man”. 360 is escaping the law and hiding from police officers and prison guards such as the Big Boss Man.
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A reference to the biblical story ‘Daniel in the lion’s den’, where Daniel, an official under King Darius of the Persian Empire, is thrown into a pit of lions for praying to God rather than to the king.
360 is giving a warning to watch out, because this pit is not full of harmless puppies.
Also a play on the words ‘pit’ and ‘pitbull’, a stereotypically vicious breed of dog.
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A triple beam is a device used to measure accurate quantities of drugs.
Triple H is a professional wrestler and a WWE 13 time world champion.
By ‘China White’, 360 is talking about high quality pure heroin which is white in colour, as opposed to the lower quality street versions which are usually more brown in colour. Opium, from which heroin is derived from, was incredibly popular in China.
This line could also be a reference to the fictional DC Comics supervillian China White, who was leader of a drug cartel and was known for supplying heroin.
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This final line is a poignant metaphor for the woman’s stale existence. Whilst her life has become stale, she is trying to make something out of it.
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Harwood is making another reference to music as subject and countersubject are both parts of a fugue, a reference to the first line in the sonnet. Harwood is showing that the woman is constantly being pulled away from her music by the suburban life.
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While initially this line seems very straight forward, Harwood is using a metaphor to compare the woman’s seemingly endless, dreary suburban life to a mouse caught in a trap. She is illustrating that the no matter what the woman cannot escape the struggles of suburban life. It could also symbolise that her musical ambitions are dead, just like the mouse.
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A fugue is a type of musical composition in which a short melody or phrase is introduced by one part and successively taken up by others and developed by interweaving the parts.
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Koko B. Ware and Al Snow are both professional wrestlers. 360 is using some clever wordplay to describe someone snorting cocaine. Cocaine is also commonly referred to as coke, a word similar to Koko. Cocaine also happens to be white just like snow.
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Arthur Rubinstein was a Polish-American classical pianist. He is often regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time. Clearly he was not interested in this woman’s music.
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Rubinstein acts as a synecdochical reference to male patriarchy. His socially dismissive attitude towards her playing reveals the broader socially dismissive attitude to women transgressing their passive and private gender roles at home.
Should comment why he wasn’t interested- was he bored? Was he dismissive of a housewife playing?