I must like this song VERY much, seeing that I'm back. LoL. My interpretation of the poem: When the narrator was young and naive, he would go looking for very inspirational and beautiful places. He finda a secluded lake. And in his poetic frenzy he declares it to be absolutely fucking beautiful. He glorifies its loneliness and the beauty of loneliness. But then night falls and suddenly, being there alone, the darkness and loneliness is no longer so "cool" anymore, and he gets freaked out by REAL loneliness and terror and depression. He thinks about beauty, and he thinks about death. He looks into the black water and thinks that if he jumped in and drowned, it would put a silence to all of the terrible thoughts in his head. Death here, he thinks, would be a great place for that naive man who actually foolishly thought that this place was an Eden. I think it's from the perspective of an older and wiser man, looking back on his younger self. Obviously, my interpretation sucks away ever drop beauty from this poem.
I must like this song VERY much, seeing that I'm back. LoL. My interpretation of the poem: When the narrator was young and naive, he would go looking for very inspirational and beautiful places. He finda a secluded lake. And in his poetic frenzy he declares it to be absolutely fucking beautiful. He glorifies its loneliness and the beauty of loneliness. But then night falls and suddenly, being there alone, the darkness and loneliness is no longer so "cool" anymore, and he gets freaked out by REAL loneliness and terror and depression. He thinks about beauty, and he thinks about death. He looks into the black water and thinks that if he jumped in and drowned, it would put a silence to all of the terrible thoughts in his head. Death here, he thinks, would be a great place for that naive man who actually foolishly thought that this place was an Eden. I think it's from the perspective of an older and wiser man, looking back on his younger self. Obviously, my interpretation sucks away ever drop beauty from this poem.