Explanation of the poem: The Incomprehensible Melody
the frozen rose in a desert is a poetic symbol of our aloneness. the haunted glass reflects, diffracts, and refracts light thus distorting our perception of reality
the haunted part means it almost seem alive. basically we are alone, and though what we experience as reality is a distortion, it seems to be alive and play with us.
white defeat - is basically surrender, peaceful surrender, like waving the white flag. basically it is the true meaning behind the name surrender, which is basically detachment.
mundane Gods are worldly Gods. of the rings means at different levels of perceptual reality, like material reality would be one ring, imaginative reality is another, mental reality is another ring. senseless madness is the struggle of life, of existence. to rest meaning basically just accept your situation.
individuality is basically another word for freedom, and the wicked child is basically a symbol for anyone cannot control themselves. basically what is the value of freedom if we cannot control ourselves.
true love is true sacrifice.
deeper drugs - basically anything we are dependent on to basically live our life. we get deeper into the drugs to basically to try to make ourselves happy, but it only makes things worse.
It burns, it burns - basically to be in pain. then you have fabrication of serious movement - basically you pretend, you put on a show, like acting you are happy for your friends and relatives when inside you scream in pain.
repeated shakes - it can mean actually shaking physically because you have conflicting nerve impulses, like when you are angry or cold or sad, but also it can mean just being uncertain about something. delicate road is basically life. in life we are uncertain in our journey.
cold burn- oxymoron word combo, basically something that is extremely cold causes pain, basically not caring about someone else, and thus we don't control our actions and someone gets hurt.
dust settles - basically things quiet down, like spending time away from the person who offended you, and thus the hurt lessens, and we are not as sensitive.
gather dark motives-making plans to hurt someone. bits of art - basically being creative about it, having a certain style. the question mark is because it is art and it is not art.
prisoner of thought-kinda obvious, but basically the mind-brain is always thinking and we are kinda trapped by its limitations and its desire to never stop thinking.
no formula - basically a method. sadness into happiness - basically trying to find a method or a guaranteed way to go from sadness to happiness, but there isn't one.
spot the rambling soliloquy. basically can you see your brain constantly talking and expressing itself and it goes on and on, almost without any kind of direction at times and often making no sense at all.
haunted visions knock - glimpses of different perceptual realities seen within us. but never expire - i.e. they never end.
worms eat the driftwood - basically consuming the driftwood, the driftwood disappears. of your own forgotten dreams - basically all the hopes and passions and desires we had in the past. basically our memories disappear and we forget what we once were.
permeating emotions - emotions that permeate the way we view things, coloring it. victors - basically the strongest. victors of dark passions - basically the strongest of our dark desires and permeate, i.e. change the way we view things and we don't realize it happening.
the nihilist awakens - basically life because meaningless to it because our viewpoint of life has change due to our dark passions, which have caused us pain.
progressed emigration - emigration is leaving one's country and progressed emigration is an increase in leaving one's country, but in this cause we aren't talking about people leaving but certain things inside of us leaving, basically letting go, ie accepting, detaching. the maker is the one who is causing the progressed emigration.
sick trembling silence - being uncomfortable with silence, which is uncomfortable with being alone, basically uncomfortable with ourselves. the silence is painful because in the silence we see ourselves and we don't like what we see. visiting is basically experiencing the silence.
we are alone- see above, basically trying to make it clear so the reader faces the reality of their aloneness
insistence upon stupid ideas - holding onto incorrect notions of reality. foreshadowed - basically caused bad things to happen. own quiet bedfellows - basically those who agree with us. quiet ie they don't voice opposition. bedfellows - basically one's community, one's family, one's friends. an example of this is like holding onto the idea of a holy war and that God could justify the killing of other people who don't believe like one does. In reality though that kind of thinking results in one's own destruction. We have noone to blame but ourselves.
bones, rocks, little mites - nice little phrase. both rocks and bones are hard. mites feed on humans and other things, causing disease, itch, and pain. bones and rocks are a symbol of death. basically mites feed on the dead things. but basically this is a literary device I use to change the direction of the poem.
teacups filled with sugar and spite: teacups basically means a formality. you drink tea, have pointless chat. the tea is sweet and nice, but in reality we are filled with spite.
observe rays, murky inescapable conflicts: observe rays - basically determine the cause of something, you trace the ray back to its source. inescapable conflicts - basically like having to fight a war we can't avoid or like having problems with one family(even if like a mother in law), but one can't avoid them either because one lives with them or one has to see them at family functions (Christmas, birthdays, etc.). it is murky because it isn't clear why the conflict has to be inescapable.
raging on, many needles pricking the vane of our conscience: raging on -endless conflict, almost the nature of material reality itself. many needles pricking - basically our many guilts, disappointments, regrets in life we feel them via our conscience and we are reminded.
Chinese medicine - as opposed to western medicine which relies on synthetic medicines to cure symptoms. Chinese medicine trying to address the root cause, at least in theory.
eat worms, make fruit - basically for instance like consuming hookworms for their immune boosting benefits, but basically anything which has a surprising beneficial effect on oneself. fruit is sweet. we eat it. a healthy tree makes fruit, which people consume. a healthy person does things which help to benefit society
the science is backwards - addressing cause as opposed to effects. most of science deals with effects, and endless chain of effects, ignoring the causes.
the riddle of the fractal matrix: fractal matrix grows in steps using things like cells and patterns and such. the riddle of the fractal matrix is the riddle of life.
sheeps scream horrors: sheeps - basically people who go along with the crowd, followers, people who don't think for themselves, basically people who aren't awake. they are in terrible pain, but don't realize it.
a death that even sleep cannot forget: basically a pain(death is basically one of the most painful things one can experience) that is always with one, even in dreams and sleep and even in the semi-awake state people call being awake in one's daily life, it is always there.
and I think it is done before it has even begun: seeing from the end. basically you know how things are going to turn out from the start. Like if you have two opponents who are unevenly matched, the much stronger one has a guaranteed win. but basically in life some things are just out of your control.
where are possibilities if there is only one path: complete determinism means there is only one path matter can take. everything in the future is predictable by knowing any previous state. where are possibilities - ie where are the choices if one is given only one choice
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Explanation of the poem: The Incomprehensible Melody
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