A lament, I think, for an older man foolishly falling for a younger woman. She lights him up, make him feel alive, but all the while he knows she won't be staying. Relationships are an endless loop, a carousel. The cold blooded reptiles look on.
The German poet Goethe supposedly said on his deathbed "More Light!" The last words of a dying old man.
In that poem a martyr is burned to death slowly. Later, a polish man, near the memorial to Goethe, refuses a Nazi command to bury two Jews alive. The dying men in one way or another reference the calling out for light, i.e. mercy, only to die horribly anyway.
I think, then, that the protagonist in "Slinky Think" is, in a way, calling out for mercy. He burns, she's his power supply, but he is anticipating the painful end.
A lament, I think, for an older man foolishly falling for a younger woman. She lights him up, make him feel alive, but all the while he knows she won't be staying. Relationships are an endless loop, a carousel. The cold blooded reptiles look on.
The German poet Goethe supposedly said on his deathbed "More Light!" The last words of a dying old man.
The phrase is used again in a poem by Anthony Hecht entitled "More Light! More Light!". http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/179058
In that poem a martyr is burned to death slowly. Later, a polish man, near the memorial to Goethe, refuses a Nazi command to bury two Jews alive. The dying men in one way or another reference the calling out for light, i.e. mercy, only to die horribly anyway.
I think, then, that the protagonist in "Slinky Think" is, in a way, calling out for mercy. He burns, she's his power supply, but he is anticipating the painful end.
@DcnBlues wow! What an amazing analysis. I really appreciate your work. Thank you very much.
@DcnBlues wow! What an amazing analysis. I really appreciate your work. Thank you very much.