Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
Is this about archeology? Art tends to last a lot longer than the artist. For me art is like a piece of your soul frozen in time. It’s not too weird to think of archeology that way.
The flashes fell upon them; some lay down And hid their eyes and wept; and some did rest Their chins upon their clenched hands, and smil'd;
See we aren’t crazy for laughing at our pain, people cope differently.
Darkness had no need Of aid from them—She was the Universe.
This is a creative way to say the world was dark and desolate.
We would not have it again. Sometimes we think of the nations lying asleep, Curled blindly in impenetrable sorrow, And then the thought confounds us with its strangeness. The tractors lie about our fields; at evening
They give up on modern society because of their ancestors but then learn to live with the world as is and make it their own. The internal fight between an environmental paradise and the usefulness of modern technology despite the strife. Sometimes it feels like you have a lack of connection to the earth that you live in compared to the technology of your day to day life. Maybe creating a connection to become better in the creation of more technology. Also I feel there is a racial standpoint or a generational trauma standpoint, but I’m tired and I will maybe look at this later if I remember.
sanchocho
I like the combination and clashing of Latin American and American culture. Like sanchocho is a latin american stew, instead of saying stew which is english it’s more culturally significant.
And you’re the girl with small hands and big eyes who never stops asking for more.
This makes me think of the term “Eyes are bigger than your stomach” meaning you thought you could eat more by what you could see but you were wrong. She’s got small hands but keeps on asking for more to hold.
dragons have one soft spot, somewhere, always; hearts can be well-hidden, and you betray them with your tongue.
Maybe dragons are meant to represent people that are rude or harmful to you, their soft-spot is the dimension that people have to hurt and help. “Hearts can be well hidden” could mean someone’s truth or true identity and people can turn on you with your words or first impressions hurt future friendships.
I think it could be about how creating comfort for yourself can create a lot of pain for yourself but even worse pain for the ones coming after. Like racism or homophobia. People selling out the futures of their own for a powerful, slow-working other who doesn’t care about you.