| mewithoutYou – Bear's Vision of St. Agnes Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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@[dralex:22906] I think we're supposed to extrapolate from Fox's dream as to what happened to her. It seems like she ate him, realized what he had done afterwards, and then became more wolf-like ("they gathered like wolves on the boardwalk below"); she did after all eat her friend. She howls for answers, and then she lets her fox side come out more, but still hiding it from her wolf side, and looks to religion ("no wolf can know I charged at the waves with a glass in my hand") for answers, but doesn't find what she was looking for, and looks back towards Bear for answers. Bear's suicide makes her colder ("your cold fingers wrapped around my ankle bone"), and acts as a sort of ball and chain to Fox, perhaps like a fiberglass ghost in the attic of her inconveniently selective memory. Then this star, representing God, majestic and powerful, explodes as if it were just a water balloon. This symbolizes the death of Fox's faith, having become very fragile throughout her journey. And since she was only ten feet away, I think we're supposed to infer that she died when this star blew up, perhaps killing herself like Bear, or dying from starvation. This reminds of the end of Young Goodman Brown, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, where Brown learns (or at least dreams) that his Puritan community is wicked as can be, including his aptly-named wife Faith. Brown is never the same afterwards, and dies ("his dying hour was gloom"), and then his wife, Faith, dies shortly afterwards. In the story we don't know if Faith died because Brown died, or if they died independently of each other, but here the order of death is inverted, and Aaron seems to be proposing a causal relationship, implying that Fox's faith was the last thing keeping her alive. But that's just a theory. A SONG theory, thanks for reading. |
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| mewithoutYou – Fox's Dream of the Log Flume Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[kintonw:22905] I think the star does represent God, but the star is said to be very fragile, like water balloons, so I see it as Fox's belief in God dying after Bear kills himself | |
| mewithoutYou – Bear's Vision of St. Agnes Lyrics | 8 years ago |
| @[beerice41:22904] I think us not knowing whether Bear's brother existed is Aaron trying to get us to empathize with Fox, and be just as surprised as she'll be when Bear kills himself | |
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