Korgscrew
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Posted: Dec. 30 2000, 00:10 |
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I would imagine that it relates, at least partly, to the sort of emotions people feel during different weather conditions...(what I'm about to say might seem obvious to some if not all people...I don't mean to be patronising, honest  )
Rain is often seen as a bit depressing...it can be other things as well - there's a cleansing and uplifting side to rain as well. If you're out in rain, you can be pretty helpless against it, if there's no shelter and you don't have anything to keep it off (jacket, umbrella, etc) - it just falls on you. Sunlight shining through the cloud - like good things happening after bad times.
Shadows are dark and also threatening - think of the idea of the child scared at night by shadows in the bedroom that seem to be something other than what they really are. But with Shadow on the Wall, it seems that the shadow represents something that isn't important, that maybe doesn't really exsist. Not human - just a shadow on the wall (and a shadow is 2 dimensional, and almost featureless). Moonlight shadows are something a bit more mysterious...the moon can represent many things as well...of course, astronomical references and what they represent could be another topic entirely...
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