into a trap, our world knows troubles but it has good things too. In the past, faeries were used as a means to scare children into bed: if the child did not go to sleep at bedtime, a faery would come and take it to a world where it would never see its parents again. This is what happens now: the child is taken to another world.
from WaarMaarRaar: Deep Thought
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1 comment :
Hi Rus,
Very interesting topic. I thoroughly enjoyed Loreena McKennitt's "The Stolen Child."
She imparts a very appropriate Celtic mood to the fairy theft. But her rendition competes with the poem. I hear a fairy ring, and the desire to escape the suffering of the world--but I cannot hear the ineffable sadness at the fate of the child who 'never grows up'-- the one who will never know
"the lowing
Of the calves on the warm hillside
Or the kettle on the hob
Sing peace into his breast...."
He has traded it all for "the waters and the wild." I listened to the song three times and was disappointed that McKennitt repeated the last line of the final stanza as if the words were not changed from the previous stanzas.
(Stanzas1,2,and 3) For the world's more full of weeping than you can
understand.
(Stanza 4) From a world more full of weeping than he can
understand.
Big difference. She kept much of the poem's grace and beauty (in fact, added some for me) but she lost some depth.
Thanks for posting the discussions on the forums.
Carol
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