| Joanna Newsom – Esme Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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But, most likely it's just a name. She's Appalachian, so it could come from anywhere |
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| Joanna Newsom – Esme Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This is going out on a limb, but 'esame' also means (alternately) "We Exist" "We Become" "We are" |
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| The Decemberists – The Queen's Rebuke/The Crossing Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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While sedition's idea is commendable, I don't believe that William is Isiah. The timeline seems all wrong, if Isiah was able to fight the rake, he must have been at least a preteen, or even a young man. I believe that this song is the key to the entire story. First: the queen talks of herself with "bones of branches" and "feet are trunks" a canopy. This leads me to think that she's more than just a queen elf or whatnot, but rather the human form of the entire forest that the story takes place in. Which brings me to my theory of William: there wass never a human baby. Rather, william is a SEED; an infant TREE. The queen is his actual mother, rather than his adoptive mother. She saw him, unable to grow due to being surrounded (entombed) by Clay rather than soil, took pity, and chose to give him an animal form. In "the Wanting comes in waves/repaid", the queen says that she gave him "motion" - an animal/human form. In The Hazard of Love 4 (Drowned), there is a lyric that says "a forest's son/a river's daughter". I think that means that Margaret is in fact a daughter of the Annan Water, and both the Queen and Annan Water are trying to keep them apart. This also gives the song 'The Wanting Comes in Waves" new meaning: the wave is a literal wave of water: Margaret. After the rake abducted Margaret, she queen game him the ability to cross the River so that William would be unable to resue margaret Thereby removing the object of his desires. I also think that the entire Hazards of Love story makes more sense if you take a step back and consider it from a Meta point of view: as a kind of play or musical. The entire story is very Shakespearean, and if you consider the characters from the point of view as plaayers on a stage, some of the odd bits start making sense: the reason all the characters are human, for example, is because it's impossible to have singing and dancing trees and water. That's what I think anyway, feel free to prove me laughably wrong |
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