The Pixie's "This Monkey's Gone To Heaven" makes a good comparison, as in both mankind, through an odd evolutionary synecdoche, is a single, symbolic monkey who can't help but destroy himself and everything around him.
In FishThatSwim's nursery rhyme's [above] moral, every object, every animal, every person is given an infinite worth through a kind of 'butterfly effect'. In Wait's take, everything in the world is found lacking, and that lack (which we might call desire, for we can only want what we don't have) engulfs us, destroys us.
There's nothing kind about mankind uses one of my favorite rhetorical devices: antanaclasis, where a word is repeated with different meanings, like othello's "Put out the light[candle], and put out the light[murder]."
I'm assuming the bit about thistles and tree trunks doesnt refer to the prior church/chapel, but to the miniscule good in the world - big as a thistle up against an oak. But that doesnt seem quite right to me- any ideas?
I like to think of the song as a Theodicity- a meditation on the origin of evil in the world.
I love especially the line where the devil knows the bible like the back of his hand.
The Pixie's "This Monkey's Gone To Heaven" makes a good comparison, as in both mankind, through an odd evolutionary synecdoche, is a single, symbolic monkey who can't help but destroy himself and everything around him.
In FishThatSwim's nursery rhyme's [above] moral, every object, every animal, every person is given an infinite worth through a kind of 'butterfly effect'. In Wait's take, everything in the world is found lacking, and that lack (which we might call desire, for we can only want what we don't have) engulfs us, destroys us.
There's nothing kind about mankind uses one of my favorite rhetorical devices: antanaclasis, where a word is repeated with different meanings, like othello's "Put out the light[candle], and put out the light[murder]."
I'm assuming the bit about thistles and tree trunks doesnt refer to the prior church/chapel, but to the miniscule good in the world - big as a thistle up against an oak. But that doesnt seem quite right to me- any ideas?
I like to think of the song as a Theodicity- a meditation on the origin of evil in the world.
I love especially the line where the devil knows the bible like the back of his hand.