09-11-2015, 12:52 PM
I'm not shitting you, I'm farting you. But yes, it's true. Here, to ruin the fun: http://www.pigpenpoetry.com/thread-17034...#pid189583
The Song of Death. I'm happy you thought of the holocaust for the oven (isn't that, like, a pun?), though I'm a bit unsure if your thinking of the Hebrews' bondage for the second bit is any good -- that was the key danger of the whole thing, I thought, that since the speaker considered both post-life fates to be fires, the hearth might be thought of as a second punishment. The two you thought of was generally correct, though, but notice the lack of any mentions of faith -- another thing which I'm not sure is a deficiency or an enlightening ambiguity, in a not-strictly-theological sense, of course.
The family? I'm just a bit confused as to whether you're referring to the divine family (for which the wheel spins) or the whole idea of family. Although, your interpretation of the double-sided aspect of the family is right, I suppose, if you were referring to the divine family, in it being either human or divine -- and so, that ultimately, man and woman will be given either their meat or their spirits, according to--well, again, the lack of mentions of faith...
But again, thank you! I think, for the Song of Death, I'll have to think of a way to make the theology of the second point sounder, or at least more conformist -- the earlier song can very well do without such ambiguities, since it should soon be given a greater, er, empirical foundation (and, even without that, its description of life never really fully steps over to the spiritual realm, I think), but this second feels somewhat incomplete still, in hindsight.
The Song of Death. I'm happy you thought of the holocaust for the oven (isn't that, like, a pun?), though I'm a bit unsure if your thinking of the Hebrews' bondage for the second bit is any good -- that was the key danger of the whole thing, I thought, that since the speaker considered both post-life fates to be fires, the hearth might be thought of as a second punishment. The two you thought of was generally correct, though, but notice the lack of any mentions of faith -- another thing which I'm not sure is a deficiency or an enlightening ambiguity, in a not-strictly-theological sense, of course.
The family? I'm just a bit confused as to whether you're referring to the divine family (for which the wheel spins) or the whole idea of family. Although, your interpretation of the double-sided aspect of the family is right, I suppose, if you were referring to the divine family, in it being either human or divine -- and so, that ultimately, man and woman will be given either their meat or their spirits, according to--well, again, the lack of mentions of faith...
But again, thank you! I think, for the Song of Death, I'll have to think of a way to make the theology of the second point sounder, or at least more conformist -- the earlier song can very well do without such ambiguities, since it should soon be given a greater, er, empirical foundation (and, even without that, its description of life never really fully steps over to the spiritual realm, I think), but this second feels somewhat incomplete still, in hindsight.