9 Matching Annotations
  1. Mar 2019
    1. when you want to be alone 

      Irritability, anger, isolation, and withdrawing oneself are all symptoms of depression. The speaker of the poem is familiar with the need for isolation and the feeling of being misunderstood.

    2. lose yourself in there

      "It is when you have left the tried and true, but have not yet been able to replace it with anything else. It is when you are finally out of the way. It is when you are between your old comfort zone and any possible new answer" - Richard Rohr

      The context of the poem leads readers to believe that the subject is idling between comfort and discomfort

    3. and you might never find your way back

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liminality

      The concept of liminality can lend some context to Drake's poem: it's the eerie-feeling threshold that lies between two destinations. In the context of the poem, it's the space between there the subject of the poem wants to be versus where they are. Liminality is uncomfortable, like one is acutely aware of their sense of time as they reside in the threshold between two spaces.

      Liminal Spaces are the times between 'what was' and the 'next'. It's a place of transition and unknowing. Places like rest stops and diners late at night can be liminal spaces because they serve the purpose of being a 'midpoint' between two places or activities.

  2. Feb 2019
    1. pluck their eyes out

      The imagery in this line reminded me of the Grimm's fairytale version of Cinderella, in which the step-sisters have their eyes pecked out by birds as a result of the ways they had mistreated Cinderella. Maybe the imagery in this line is meant to evoke that the parents are suffering as a result of their son's actions. https://www.bustle.com/articles/61053-9-things-about-the-original-brothers-grimm-cinderella-story-that-are-nothing-like-the-disney-version