| Hozier – From Eden Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Paradise Lost, Book IX, as Satan admires and spies on Eve before tempting her and bringing about her downfall: "Such Pleasure took the Serpent to behold This Flow'ry Plat, the sweet recess of Eve ....her Heav'nly form Angelic, but more soft and Feminine, Her graceful Innocence, her every Air Of gesture or lest action overaw'd His Malice, and with rapine sweet bereav'd His fierceness of the fierce intent it brought: That space the Evil one abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remaind Stupidly good, of enmity disarm'd, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge..." I love how Hozier expands on Milton's (non-canonical) imagining of how Eve's beauty stopped the Devil in his tracks, and then goes a step further by developing this into a fully fledged, very messy romantic relationship.This song seems like a pretty radical departure from the account in Genesis, until you realise that the groundwork had already been laid in a 350 year old poem! This probably would have spiced up the story if it had gone this way, I think. Satan and Eve were a couple of rebels and Adam was always a bit dull for her in my opinion. Besides, who doesn't love a bad boy? |
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| The Killers – Believe Me Natalie Lyrics | 6 years ago |
| @[futurfaildnovlist:23933] **applause*. Wonderful reading. | |
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