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I was musing while waiting for the turkey to cook on the inappropriate titles some seasonal songs have been given. Good King Wenceslas? Totally evil, I think. He'd be locked up in a shot today and the key thrown away. Look at what he did:
Good King Wenceslas looked out,
on the Feast of Stephen,
When the snow lay round about,
deep and crisp and even;
Brightly shone the moon that night,
tho’ the frost was cruel,
When a poor man came in sight,
gath’ring winter fuel.
Right. We get the picture. Bitterly cold, snow underfoot, no time or place to be out. And we see a poor man.
“Hither, page, and stand by me,
if thou know’st it, telling,
Yonder peasant, who is he?
Where and what his dwelling?”
“Sire, he lives a good league hence,
underneath the mountain;
Right against the forest fence,
by Saint Agnes’ fountain.”
Wency shows his feeling of superiority, and even compounds it with a hate crime in describing a poor man as a "peasant". What a sense of entitlement this shows, and how he has degraded a man whose only crime is poverty. Note also that as pages were customarily young men, we know that he's employing an underage worker...
“Bring me flesh, and bring me wine,
bring me pine logs hither:
Thou and I will see him dine,
when we bear them thither.”
Page and monarch, forth they went,
forth they went together;
Through the rude wind’s wild lament
and the bitter weather.
Now it takes a turn for the worse. He's encouraging meat eating, to the detriment of the planet. AND he's intending to burn fossil fuels!!!! AND his intention is to treat the spectacle of a poor man eating as being akin to a chimpanzee's tea party - after no doubt he's had the fun of getting him drunk on the wine! How much worse can it get? Read on...
“Sire, the night is darker now,
and the wind blows stronger;
Fails my heart, I know not how;
I can go no longer.”
Now we see that he has compelled an underage youth to work excessively long hours and to venture out into the bitter cold in which said youth is experiencing extreme discomfort.
GOOD King Wencelas? Clearly an entitled arrogant exploiter of youth who takes sadistic pleasure in others discomfort.
* "Exegesis" is the bring out of the meaning of a text; "eisegesis" is the reading into it of what you want to find there. Far too often, we see the latter being done under the name of the former. Not in this case, of course... Unless this interpretation is more of a turkey than the former contents of our oven.
Good King Wenceslas looked out,
on the Feast of Stephen,
When the snow lay round about,
deep and crisp and even;
Brightly shone the moon that night,
tho’ the frost was cruel,
When a poor man came in sight,
gath’ring winter fuel.
Right. We get the picture. Bitterly cold, snow underfoot, no time or place to be out. And we see a poor man.
“Hither, page, and stand by me,
if thou know’st it, telling,
Yonder peasant, who is he?
Where and what his dwelling?”
“Sire, he lives a good league hence,
underneath the mountain;
Right against the forest fence,
by Saint Agnes’ fountain.”
Wency shows his feeling of superiority, and even compounds it with a hate crime in describing a poor man as a "peasant". What a sense of entitlement this shows, and how he has degraded a man whose only crime is poverty. Note also that as pages were customarily young men, we know that he's employing an underage worker...
“Bring me flesh, and bring me wine,
bring me pine logs hither:
Thou and I will see him dine,
when we bear them thither.”
Page and monarch, forth they went,
forth they went together;
Through the rude wind’s wild lament
and the bitter weather.
Now it takes a turn for the worse. He's encouraging meat eating, to the detriment of the planet. AND he's intending to burn fossil fuels!!!! AND his intention is to treat the spectacle of a poor man eating as being akin to a chimpanzee's tea party - after no doubt he's had the fun of getting him drunk on the wine! How much worse can it get? Read on...
“Sire, the night is darker now,
and the wind blows stronger;
Fails my heart, I know not how;
I can go no longer.”
Now we see that he has compelled an underage youth to work excessively long hours and to venture out into the bitter cold in which said youth is experiencing extreme discomfort.
GOOD King Wencelas? Clearly an entitled arrogant exploiter of youth who takes sadistic pleasure in others discomfort.
* "Exegesis" is the bring out of the meaning of a text; "eisegesis" is the reading into it of what you want to find there. Far too often, we see the latter being done under the name of the former. Not in this case, of course... Unless this interpretation is more of a turkey than the former contents of our oven.
