Songs and dances of death: a few explanations.
How strange it is to like something about death! I don't think so.
I don't consider death as a taboo, nor something you don't talk about.
In a way, death fascinates me. I don't mean dying, i'm interested in what the poetic meaning of death may involve...as far as you can imagine death could be poetic.
Anyway, i like those songs because they touched me, they made me feel a lot of emotions and because they were poetry, at first.
Moreover, it's part of my ambivalence: loving life, hating death, but being seduced by her.
In those songs, death is ambivalent too. She's revealed in her all cruelty in the first two songs (Lullaby & Serenade), inopportune and bursting unexpectedly.
Nevertheless, she's able to be an angel in disguise in the other songs (Trepak & The field marshal): inviting a drunkard to a dance, or reconciling the dead soldiers brought into conflict by life.
The "songs and dances of death" really are good music to me.
I don't consider death as a taboo, nor something you don't talk about.
In a way, death fascinates me. I don't mean dying, i'm interested in what the poetic meaning of death may involve...as far as you can imagine death could be poetic.
Anyway, i like those songs because they touched me, they made me feel a lot of emotions and because they were poetry, at first.
Moreover, it's part of my ambivalence: loving life, hating death, but being seduced by her.
In those songs, death is ambivalent too. She's revealed in her all cruelty in the first two songs (Lullaby & Serenade), inopportune and bursting unexpectedly.
Nevertheless, she's able to be an angel in disguise in the other songs (Trepak & The field marshal): inviting a drunkard to a dance, or reconciling the dead soldiers brought into conflict by life.
The "songs and dances of death" really are good music to me.
posted by J at Monday, December 18, 2006
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