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The song shows how the woman falls completely in love with the singer, but is then devastaded to learn that the singer does not share her feelings. She is like Dido: originally enamored with Aeneas, but then utterly heartbroken. The singer is like Aeneas: he at first shares the love, then leaves to fulfill his own desires, but still feels the pain of the love lost.

This piece is an evocation of the bonds between mother and child. The three movements keep with this theme, the first and third details a mothers the loss of a child and the second the child’s separation from their mother. Henryk G__recki choose three different lyrical pieces to fit with the symphony the First movement is from a song of lamentation from the Polish Holy Cross Monastery, of Mary for her son Jesus, and the pain she suffered knowing his fate it dates from the second-half of the 15th century. The second movement comes from a message inscribed and signed on wall 3, cell 3, in the basement of Gestapo headquarters in Zadopane, by an 18 year-old Polish woman the imprisoned in 1944 during World War II. The third is a Silesian folk song and the voice is that of a mother searching in vain for the dead body of her child, killed in the Silesian uprising between Poland and Germany. Lines 1019-1080 is the moment when Medea speaks alone in one of her longest monologues in the drama and laments over her role as a mother and her relationship with her children, knowing that she is going to murder them and struggling with this as someone who have birth to them and tried to raise them well. I suggest reading the passage as you listen to the selection.

This song is about how love can be poisoning. There is no better example of this than between Jason and Medea. He has forsaken her and she just wants to run away. She has to get away.

Eric Clapton’s son died at age four and Clapton expressed his pain through the song “Tears in Heaven.” Similarly, Plutarch and his wife lose their infant daughter when she is two years old. Plutarch commends his wife for holding a modest and simple funeral for the girl. Like Plutarch’s wife, Clapton uses simple lyrics, a repeated question, to convey the pain he feels from the loss of his son.

Both texts involve prayers to god (Eros in the ancient source). The Jim White song is interesting because the speaker gives God an ultimatum. Anacreon: O lord, with whom Eros the subduer and the dark-eyed nymphs and glistening Aphrodite join in play, you who roam the high crests of the mountains, I kneel and beg you, come to me kindly, hear my prayer, and may it please you: Give wise counsel to Kleoboulos, get him, Dionysus, to accept my love.

Although the song does not parallel Eroticus completely, the love between the singer and the woman is like the love of Bacchon and Ismenodora. We do not see much detail of Bacchon and Ismenodora’s love, but this song paints a picture of how it might have been.

This song is about a girl who is afraid to fall in love with anyone and has accepted a life of solitude, however she falls in love with someone who becomes her only exception. These lyrics related well with the story of Dido and Aeneas because Dido vowed never to fall in love again after the murder of her husband and to live a life for her people. However she falls for Aeneas and makes an exception to her promise. In addition, just as in the song, Aeneas leaves her in the morning.

Ovid offers examples of places to find women. Blink-182 offers one of the same locations/events for picking up girls. Whereas maybe Ovid had some luck at parties, the boys of Blink-182 have none. They note that yes, there are what even Ovid would consider pretty fly-honeys, (he might have liked on enough to brush imaginary dust off her shirt); these girls, however, are trying too hard to impress, possibly on the hunt themselves.

This song is about the beauty of love. I can think of no better poem to attribute this too than that of the Hymn to Aphrodite. Aphrodite goes down to earth to find a mortal to sleep with. the words I’m your lady, and you are my man are perfect. They show the true feelings of both parties involved.

This song describes the deception and weakness of some that promise their love. These lyrics describe the relationship between Jason & Medea. Jason promised to marry her and love her. However, as the lyrics describe “when they say ‘give’ they mean ‘take’ and that is exactly what Jason did to Medea. He used her for his benefit instead of loving her truly and he did not understand the responsibilities that loyalty that comes with marriage. This relates to the lyric “because a ring don’t mean nothing if you can’t haul the weight”. He did not fulfill his duties as a husband when he left her to marry another.

This song is about the first experience of love. Daphnis and Chloe spend much of their time worrying about and anticipating their first time. The song tells us what Longus left out at the end of the book.

Horace discusses how lovely Chloe is, and how he would love living with her, and die with her gladly. Similarly the Smith’s talk about how it would be a privilege to die by their lovers side, and call it a “heavenly way to die”

Eve 6’s think twice parallels Sappho’s jealousy when she sees her lover with another. They both describe the physical symptoms they experince when they see this betrayal.

The narrator in each source wonders whether a woman is dreaming of him, hoping apparently that this reveals a real, if unexpressed, expression of desire. Meleager: Does she take tears to bed, kiss an elusive dream of me, that she clasps to her breast?