Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20140612134000/@comment-6192846-20140904215857

In regards to the use of 我 later in the song, I had just been talking to Agni about the lyrics "Now I am become death". 我 (ware) is an older first-person pronoun, and pops up only three times in the whole song.

The first two are with the lines "I am become Master of the Hellish Yard" and "Now I am become Death", while the latter is when it's being used as the plural "we" (我々) when "someone" said after the test: "Now we are all... sons of bitches".

Is it possible 我 is being used because it's older and therefore more closely translates the "I am become" old grammar mechanic from English to Japanese? It was the same pronoun that came up when looking up the actual Oppenheimer quote in Japanese.

That would explain that usage there.