Born to Die - "Is it by mistake or design?"

Off to the Races - "Trust in the decision of the Lord to watch over us, take him when he may"

Diet Mtn Dew - "Saved too many times" (I always heard this as "saved" in the Christian sense, like saved/forgiven from sin)

Lucky Ones - "Boy and girl meet by the great design"

Bel-Air - "Gargoyles, standing, at the front of your gate [...] so I arrive like I'm mad to heavens door"

She also just mentions "God" and "heaven" or "blessed" a lot in general (Religion, God Knows I tried, Video Games, Summertime Sadness, Ultraviolence, etc...)

Lolita

Body Electric

In Tomorrow Never Came, the line "on this side of paradise in the tropic of cancer" seems to be a double literary reference to F Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise and Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer

The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway - Money Power Glory

Is This Happiness: "You think you're Hunter S. Thompson"

I think the Whitman she refers to in Body Electric is American poet Walt Whitman.

And then there's 'masters of our own fate, captains of our own souls' , in Lust for Life, which paraphrases the last two lines of the poem Invictus by William Ernest Henley.

"I sing the body electric" is also a Walt Whitman poem. So, it's a reference within a reference. Intellectual af.

She also recites this poem in Tropico (the first one, right after the Body Electric section). The second poem she recites, after Gods and Monsters, is Howl by Allen Ginsberg.

"You're my religion," by Catherine in Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. Caught it in my re-read.

I actually need to know when she references Bukowski because I'm a fan of his stuff. Is it Off to the Races?

this is probably a reach but this phrase from the ride monologue:

"when the people I used to know found out what i had been doing, how i had been living, they asked me why"

echoes:

"who came out and fell to questioning him of what he had been doing, and how he had been living"

catherine in ref to heathcliff

wuthering heights, emily bronte

https://readingturtleduck.wordpress.com/2019/01/29/10-times-lana-del-rey-mentioned-a-book/

“Light of your life, fire of your loins,” which also happen to be the first lines of the novel. - Lolita / Nabokov

He hit me and it felt like a kiss / I can hear violins, violins / Give me all of that ultraviolence“.

“Nothing gold can stay”, does it cement that idea. The line is a clear allusion to Robert Frost’s poem, “Nothing gold can stay”, whose central message is that nothing great can stay forever…

Here, Lana was not just “living like Jim Morrison”, but she was also referencing Oscar Wilde. When she sings, “Life imitates art“, which is very similar to the famous playwright’s quote: “Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”

Not even in her interludes does Del Rey rest with the literary allusions. In Honeymoon‘s interlude, she includes the first portion of T.S. Eliot’s poem from Four Quartets, “Burnt Notice”‘. Unlike most of her other references, this one is one is word for word, and the most obvious literary reference, but it is the most overlooked because it’s in the interlude. No matter what, it’s worth mentioning.