“Like scorched purses, stiff with seed;/ whom God built to trawl/endless cathedrals of darkness,/their bland eyes gaping like sores;”
The multiple images in this verse highlight the repugnance of love. The ‘scorched purses’ generates an imagery of a dwindling love. The ‘stiff seed’ trigger an image of crippling love feelings. The ‘cathedrals of darkness’ allude to the gloominess of the love. The ‘bland eyes’ connote the dreariness of the relationship. The sores depict the agony of love.
“The soul makes a thousand crossings, the heart, just one”
This quote hints at the discrepancy between the heart and the soul. The soul’s capacity to traverse “a thousand crossings” means that the soul is adaptable and sublime.
“Tell me you’ve never seen a hangman hung”
This quote deals with the subject of karma. A hangman who spends his life terminating people’s lives by way of hanging suffers the loss of his life through hanging. The hangman cannot dodge the reverberations of his actions in the end as karma ensnares him.
“Friends, we’re all done for by the things we do”
This quote makes reference to the prevalent predisposition to self-crippling behaviors. People can be the reasons of their undoing depending on the activities that they partake in.
