List of Songs That Retell A Work of Literature - A

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• "Achilles, Agony and Ecstasy in Eight Parts" from the Manowar album The Triumph of Steel is a retelling of the fight between Hector and Achilles in the Iliad. "And Then There Was Silence" by Blind Guardian is also based on the Iliad.
• "Afternoons and Coffeespoons" by Crash Test Dummies is based on the T. S. Eliot poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock".
• "Ahab" by MC Lars retells the story of Moby-Dick by Herman Melville from the perspective of Captain Ahab.
• "Alone" by Green Carnation is based on the Edgar Allan Poe poem of the same title. "Alone" by Arcturus is based on the same poem.
• "Altair-4" by Blind Guardian is about The Tommyknockers by Stephen King.
• "All is Not Well" by Hannah Fury is based on the romance of Elphaba and Fiyero from Wicked by Gregory Maguire.
• "Among the Living" by Anthrax is about Stephen King's The Stand.
• "And Your Little Dog Too" by Hannah Fury is told from the point of view of Wicked Witch of the West from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
• "A Man for All Seasons" by Al Stewart was based on Robert Bolt's play.
• "A Picture of Dorian Gray" by The Television Personalities is about Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.
• "Animal in Man" by dead prez is a retelling of George Orwell's Animal Farm. "Animal Farm" by Hazel O'Connor also re-tells the story.
• "Annabel Lee" by Stevie Nicks rewrites the eponymous poem by Poe. Tiger Army's song of the same title is also based on the poem.