Friday, February 18, 2011

Broken love is like death .....






Love is like death in the way that they’re 
both significant events in life, and both are 
events filled with their own emotions. 
Love needs trust and devotion.  Orpheus 
goes down to bring her back, but he doesn’t 
trust enough to believe she is following him. 
He brings her to life with his music, twice. 

A metaphor is a figure of speech which 
compares two unlike objects. 
What is metaphor?  It is the wind that rushes 
through the grass, the twinkling of stars, the 
waters that hold the world in loving 
embrace. 
A metaphor is the world that keeps us alive, 
the joy we feel, a metaphor is the meaning 
for life. 

Love & Music:  cannot be seen, but have 
manifestations; enjoyed by all; ability to 
soften hard hearts. 
Love & Death:  extend into eternity and 
exist out of time; powerful; drive people to 
do crazy things; major themes in most 
stories. 
Death & Music:  can be sad; common to all 
generations, but ideas of both have changed. 
BRIANNA: 
Love is the music of life.  No music is like 
no love in life. 




The story of Orpheus is that of a common 
Greek tragedy.  The meaning of music 
within the story is that of the human soul. 
Expressing all of its possible emotion within 
different events of life. 

Death is not an ending factor, but part of an 
everlasting cycle of birth, death, and rebirth; 
Love, real love, is everlasting as well. 
Music is the highest expression of love. 

Music, in this myth, or at least this myth as 
played by Orpheus, can describe either love 
or death.  This suggests that music can make 
us love things, even when we are feeling 
like death.  The rhythm moves us at a more 
fundamental level than more surface 
emotions. 

Love can be considered death, because when 
you are in love, sometimes the independent 
part of you goes away.  If you lose the 
person you love, you sometimes lose part of 
yourself. 
Music can be death because as the song 
comes to an end, it is the death of that song. 

Music is an expression of energy, a surge 
 of vibration used to express emotion. 
After the music stops, there is left with 
silence.  Ths silence is death—a second 
between songs, thereby as the music of life 
plays its final chords, the music of death 
begins.  So death is a celebration of life, just 
as music is.



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