THE HEART ASKS PLEASURE FIRST
What is the human heart? This poem by Dickinson transformed into song by Nyman a century later describes it aptly I think. The human heart asks pleasure first...then pleads for quietude...only to repeat its beating, bleeding song and dance all over again!
SONG (MICHAEL NYMAN):
POEM (EMILY DICKINSON):
The heart asks pleasure first,And then, excuse from pain;
And then, those little anodynes
That deaden suffering;
And then, to go to sleep;
And then, if it should be
The will of its Inquisitor,
The liberty to die.
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