This is from Bek. how good is it!!! lol
Death Metal Lyric or William Blake Quote? Have a guess!
BY ELI PETZOLD
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1. "Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead."
2. "We are Satan's generation."
3. "As I was walking among the fires of hell, delighted."
4. "The road of excess leadsto the palace of wisdom."
5. "The child of burning time has gone. He hasn't come back."
6. "Flames of profligacy, naked bodies flowing in the stream of wild dreams."
7. "The original Archangel or possessor of the command of the heavenly host, is called the Devil."
8. "The sulphur-kingdom, purgatory, hell`s damnation, no man will be perditioned for all time."
9. "Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires."
10. "Every man is therefore guilty of all the good he did."
Answers:
ReplyDeleteDeath Metal: 2, 5, 6, 8, 10
Blake: 1, 3, 4, 7, 9
Thanks to my hilarious taste in music when I was in year 8, alongside English Ext. 1, I think I can try without being tempted to cheat. :D
ReplyDelete1. Blake -key word: 'cart'
2. Metal - Sounds lame and metalhead-like.
3. Blake - Even metalheads know that hell is bad. :P
4. Blake - This is from the Marriage of Heaven and Hell...I think.
5. Metal - 'He hasn't come back.' is a bit awkward and clunky for Blake.
6. Blake - Metalheads don't know what 'profligacy' means, generally.
7. Blake - 'archangel' and 'heavenly' don't fit into the metal genre.
8. Metal - 'No man will be perditioned for all time' --I rarely see perdition used that way. It seems weird, and Blake was too Christian to oppose something so fundamental to Christianity as eternal suffering for those in hell who have not received redemption.
9. Could be either...I'll go with Blake. 'Nurse' is too nice a word for metal lyrics.
10. Metal -- Just doesn't sound very Romantic to me.
LOL. I post after sitting here, scrutinizingly picking at the phrasing and diction for 20 minutes, and find that you put up the answers. And, aw shucks, I got one wrong. :/ I need to stop generalising.
ReplyDeleteYou were so close Jess!
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Haha, my huge-metalhead-guitar-fanatic phase has taught me well. And never again will I venture into those murky depths of rock music. >.> Except when I'm reminiscing the good times when Gab and I used to air-guitar to everything we listened to. *embarrassed*
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