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.