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Mental death vs. life
Feelings vs. insensitiveness and numbness
Joy vs. tears and weep
Darkness vs. light
Music and sounds vs. silence
Gentle fingers vs. heavy heart
Lurk vs. burst
Hope vs. end
iambic tetrameter --> heart beat like, heart-piercing issue
often happened that speaker in a poem is a poet
Speaker --> Byron himself?
speaks from the 1st person --> connects and transfers emotions and feelings more to the reader
My soul is…
I yet can brook to hear…
…to burn my brain
I tell thee, minstrel, I must weep…
mental death and depression, search for hope, desire to be reborn
TONE: sorrowful and melancholic
My soul is dark – Oh! quickly string
The harp I yet can brook to hear;
And let thy gentle fingers fling
Its melting murmurs o’er mine ear.
If in this heart a hope be dear,
That sound shall charm it forth again:
If in these eyes there lurk a tear,
‘Twill flow, and cease to burn my brain.
But bid the strain be wild and deep,
Nor let thy notes of joy be first:
I tell thee, minstrel, I must weep,
Or else this heavy heart will burst;
For it hath been by sorrow nursed,
And ached in sleepless silence, long;
And now ’tis doomed to know the worst,
And break at once – or yield to song.
but hope comes at the end
1815
madness
rumors
expression oneself through music
scandals
leaving England
sexual affairs
unhappy marriage
Alliteration
fingers fling tension
inspiration
melting murmurs o’er mine ear
smoothness
burn my brain fight & tension
To oppose
the Enlightenment which included reason, logic, meaning, tabula rasa, concept of metropolis, technology, labour oppression, science and the Industrial Revolution
be wild and deep hard diction
HUMAN BEING is allowed to feel and express his\her-self!
in sleepless silence tricky and dangerous
ROMANTICISM
imagination
nature
feelings
love
adventure
idealism
heroism
dream
romantic quest
association
harp = soul
strings = nerves; personal sensitive moments
HEART STRINGS – emotional poem, emotions can be played by music, unless he will be broken
gentle fingers playing stings of harp
gentle fingers = the way to come to the problem slowly without heavy pressure
soul as an instrument
soul dark substance, unexplored\ rotten\ empty\ destroyed area
"melting murmurs o’er mine ear": music as a smoke, light and barely noticeable, melts in the ear
mood
Ability to hear the sound = hope. Because it is ability to become sensitive again, vulnerable and start to care
depressed, dissapointed, indifferent, thinks about suicide
feelings and sensibility through burning pain
musician who writes funeral music
Eve blames romantic writers --> Adam use to hang out and play chess with them --> got influenced by Byron, Shelley and Wollstonecraft.
Does not really Adam have heroes?
the wall filled with the portraits of famous writers, physicists and musicians, including Kafka, Einstein and Christopher Marlowe.
At some point Eve tells him that she remembers his hero to be Marlowe, who being a vampire as well, dies at the end of the movie from blood poisoning.
Does this mean that Adams hero dies? --> dissapointment\hope??
first emotion is sorrow and weeping
tears = treatment & placebo
his character correlates with Romantic hero concept:
"ache [of] sleepless silence"
"reject[s] [and] question[s] [...] standard social conventions and norms of behavior, [is] alienat[ed] from larger society, [his] focus [is] on the self as the center of existence"
"Only Lovers Left Alive is an
unconventional love story between a man
and a woman, Adam and Eve. [...]
These two lovers are archetypal outsiders,
classic bohemians, extremely intelligent and sophisticated — yet still in full possession of their animal instincts. They have traveled the world and experienced many remarkable
things, always inhabiting the shadowed
margins of society. And, like their own love
story, their particular perspective on human history spans centuries — because they happen to be vampires."
tired of zombies (pop-masses who follow), who are "[afraid] of their own imagination"
claims that he does not have heroes
pun on the names
Eve and her reckless and trouble making sister Ave calm, balanced VS. reckless, seeking for trouble, praising the past VS. going along with technologies.
Ave challenges Eve and Adam, she pushes them out their comfort zone. Additionally she mentions God challenging Eve if she is still afraid of God, although Eve says that she does not believe in fairytales
mythology.
RENAISSANCE
the names are not accidental --> Adam and Eve (first man and woman)--> allusion to the Bible.
the representation of religion immortality, because they are vampires
sucks THE life out of people.
Vampires have human like appearance --> can be easily included in society --> influence humans
--> appeal to humanity
--> transgress humans
romantics were influenced by renaissance writers
RENAISSANCE LUTE
Humans --> created by nature
--> organic
vampires --> discuse as humans
to come into nature world
--> smth artificial
goes with idea of REPRESENTATION OF religion
Marlowe - Shakespeare?
For it hath been by sorrow nursed,
And ached in sleepless silence, long;
And now ’tis doomed to know the worst,
climax:
And break at once – or yield to song.