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Mar 10, 2016
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Was it sun through the haze
That made all your looks
As warm as moonlight?
As a pearl deep your eyes
Tears have flown away
All the same light
Did
That made all your looks
As warm as moonlight?
As a pearl deep your eyes
Tears have flown away
All the same light
Did
The insistent rhythm - perhaps a 'life pulse' returns here. But I would be more than cautious about thinking the sculpture has literally sprung to life. All the imagery here suggests a heightened dream-like state. The looks being 'warm as moonlight' and a 'pearl deep your eyes' suggest an alabaster figure rather than a fleshy one. I think a more satisfying explanation is that Roan has realised his ambition of capturing his lovers likeness to the degree that his feelings are perfectly captured and he has achieved an enduring quality to his love.
Mar 10, 2016
"
So transformed him
Realizing a form out of stone
His work so absorbed him
Could she hear him?
Could she see him?
All aglow was his room dazed in this light
He would touch her
He would hold her
Laughing as they danced
Highest colors touching others
Realizing a form out of stone
His work so absorbed him
Could she hear him?
Could she see him?
All aglow was his room dazed in this light
He would touch her
He would hold her
Laughing as they danced
Highest colors touching others
The first line here seems pretty key to me - it is "So transformed him". There is something happening with the sculptor and the status of the sculpted form is framed in questions: "Could she hear him? Could she see him?"
Psychologically the effect is there, albeit it is not expressed in the present tense: "He would touch her. He would hold her". Something transformative has happened and it is powerfully expressed by the music that follows - a change in tempo that signals an insistent pulse from the stillness that surrounds it.
Psychologically the effect is there, albeit it is not expressed in the present tense: "He would touch her. He would hold her". Something transformative has happened and it is powerfully expressed by the music that follows - a change in tempo that signals an insistent pulse from the stillness that surrounds it.