the edgar allen poe i think of from the raven is being haunted by a lost love, the raven in the story reminds the speaker that they will be reunited "nevermore", rhetorically burying its beak in their heart. speaking of heart there might be a slight reference to poe's the tell-tale heart, which involves murdering and burying a whole person *down in the basement*, only to begin hearing the *heart* down there still beating, though the sound is imperceptible to everyone else - this could represent the way heartbreak is profoundly painful but profoundly invisible to others, and how we can bury the version of us that was in love but that heart never really stops beating for the mask guys there is poe's the masque of the red death, where frightened people hide their fear by throwing a big raucous party where everyone wears masks and fancy clothes, which also ties in with the fancy outfit dpr ian wears at the end - i can't totally tell if it's checkerboard or diamond pattern, but either way it's very masquerade chic. anyway, what they fear steals in and slowly but inexorably gets them anyway, tying in with the chaotic and dreamlike violence of the masked men, forward and backwards in time, how loss hurts now and hurts later but even poisons the past, sours our memories and makes even happy moments painful. or, masks just look cool lol the last potential reference i can see or imagine is to poe's the pit and the pendulum, where a big razor pendulum slowly descends on a guy and would eventually "leave [him] in two pieces". mostly i think poe wrote a lot of dark gloomy violent stuff, and heartbreak is a dark and gloomy and violent kind of feeling, so we could make the imagery and lyrics tie in even where it wasn't intentional the fifth paragraph of my essay is this conclusion: i really enjoyed this video! thanks gnl :D
the edgar allen poe i think of from the raven is being haunted by a lost love, the raven in the story reminds the speaker that they will be reunited "nevermore", rhetorically burying its beak in their heart.
speaking of heart there might be a slight reference to poe's the tell-tale heart, which involves murdering and burying a whole person *down in the basement*, only to begin hearing the *heart* down there still beating, though the sound is imperceptible to everyone else - this could represent the way heartbreak is profoundly painful but profoundly invisible to others, and how we can bury the version of us that was in love but that heart never really stops beating
for the mask guys there is poe's the masque of the red death, where frightened people hide their fear by throwing a big raucous party where everyone wears masks and fancy clothes, which also ties in with the fancy outfit dpr ian wears at the end - i can't totally tell if it's checkerboard or diamond pattern, but either way it's very masquerade chic. anyway, what they fear steals in and slowly but inexorably gets them anyway, tying in with the chaotic and dreamlike violence of the masked men, forward and backwards in time, how loss hurts now and hurts later but even poisons the past, sours our memories and makes even happy moments painful. or, masks just look cool lol
the last potential reference i can see or imagine is to poe's the pit and the pendulum, where a big razor pendulum slowly descends on a guy and would eventually "leave [him] in two pieces". mostly i think poe wrote a lot of dark gloomy violent stuff, and heartbreak is a dark and gloomy and violent kind of feeling, so we could make the imagery and lyrics tie in even where it wasn't intentional
the fifth paragraph of my essay is this conclusion: i really enjoyed this video! thanks gnl :D
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