yellow ledbetter // hannah schofield
howdy, fellas,
I have found my new trend– naming my blog posts after songs that are relevant and liked by myself. Now, it probably won't last long, but, let's pretend it will. As for this song by Pearl Jam, it is a must-have in any music library.
I am also curious if by reading my blog title you all guessed what I was going to blog about. No? Yes?
Well, it pertains to Canto 23 in the eighth circle of hell in the fifth pouch/hole/valley.
Yellow (in my mind) equals gold.
Ledbetter equals lead lined cloaks the sinners would be better without.
Basically, these sinners wear cloaks that appear shiny and inviting on the outside, but the insides of the cloaks are lined with lead that weights the souls down. This represents their hypocrisy during their living life. Their outward appearances and lives were showcased as perfect, ideal, or societally expected while their internal states were heavy, misleading, or contradictory.
As Dante and Virgil looked at the souls from their outside perspective, I couldn't help but think of the lyrics from the song mentioned previously that state,
"...Yeah, but they don't wave
I see them 'round the front way
And I know, and I know I don't want to stay at all
I don't want to stay
I don't want to stayI don't want to stay..."
See, no matter how badly the souls want to shed the cloaks instead of shedding their own, countless tears, they just can't. They want to be free and they don't want to stay.
Sidenote: this song has nothing to do with hell or Dante. It just came to me as well as some of the lyrics and I thought the title was punny.
Commented on: Breanna's & Sydney's
I have found my new trend– naming my blog posts after songs that are relevant and liked by myself. Now, it probably won't last long, but, let's pretend it will. As for this song by Pearl Jam, it is a must-have in any music library.
I am also curious if by reading my blog title you all guessed what I was going to blog about. No? Yes?
Well, it pertains to Canto 23 in the eighth circle of hell in the fifth pouch/hole/valley.
Yellow (in my mind) equals gold.
Ledbetter equals lead lined cloaks the sinners would be better without.
Basically, these sinners wear cloaks that appear shiny and inviting on the outside, but the insides of the cloaks are lined with lead that weights the souls down. This represents their hypocrisy during their living life. Their outward appearances and lives were showcased as perfect, ideal, or societally expected while their internal states were heavy, misleading, or contradictory.
As Dante and Virgil looked at the souls from their outside perspective, I couldn't help but think of the lyrics from the song mentioned previously that state,
"...Yeah, but they don't wave
I see them 'round the front way
And I know, and I know I don't want to stay at all
I don't want to stay
I don't want to stayI don't want to stay..."
See, no matter how badly the souls want to shed the cloaks instead of shedding their own, countless tears, they just can't. They want to be free and they don't want to stay.
Sidenote: this song has nothing to do with hell or Dante. It just came to me as well as some of the lyrics and I thought the title was punny.
Commented on: Breanna's & Sydney's
I love this thing you're doing with the song titles! It definitely keeps me engaged in what you have to say. I also found Cantos XXIII to be really interesting for a number of different reasons - the cloaks being close to the top of the list. The way that the punishments correlate to the sins has been so satisfying and intriguing to me, and the lead cloaks are one of my favorite examples of that so far.
ReplyDeleteI don't remember if the text used the world gilded or not, but that is exactly what my mind went to. Gilded refers to something that is gold covered, which is a totally different thing from gold. They used this term in the 20s I think, i don't exactly remember. Anyways, this portrays that, on the outside looking in, everything is all good and glamorous. But, on the inside, everything is not okay. Which is why I love the fact that Dante put them in gold-covered cloaks.
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