"And then I turned and walked away / into the shade."
Good gods, I love this double entendre. That surface notion of going into the cool, away from the sunlight; that deeper idea of becoming a shade, entering the Greecian afterlife without him...
"Lily white and poppy red."
Oh, I doubt this line is an intentional suicide reference, but that's something I pick up from it. Pale skin, blood spilled. It's as though Eurydice is saying "I did this to myself," which could be a bit of victim blaming (as this version of her myth implies Hades convinced her to run off to His kingdom, not that she was killed by third parties).
"And then I turned and walked away / into the shade."
Good gods, I love this double entendre. That surface notion of going into the cool, away from the sunlight; that deeper idea of becoming a shade, entering the Greecian afterlife without him...
"Lily white and poppy red."
Oh, I doubt this line is an intentional suicide reference, but that's something I pick up from it. Pale skin, blood spilled. It's as though Eurydice is saying "I did this to myself," which could be a bit of victim blaming (as this version of her myth implies Hades convinced her to run off to His kingdom, not that she was killed by third parties).